How will you survive in 2011?

Oscar Berg from the The Content Economy blog made me aware that IDC has released an updated version of last year's The Expanding Digital Universe report. The 2008 update finds that IDC’s 2007 estimate of the world's information content was too small. It turns out the 2007 digital universe was actually 281 billion gigabytes, about 10 percent bigger than IDC thought.

By 2011, IDC says in its new report, the digital universe will grow to 10 times its 2006 size. Their track record so far means that this estimate will prove an underestimation as well.

Imagine how this growth will be for your organization if you do not change the way you manage your electronic information…

• Will you and your organization be able to handle 10 times more emails per day?
• Will 10 times larger repositories without proper metadata and taxonomy negatively influence your efficiency and collaboration?
• Will 10 times larger repositories without proper metadata and taxonomy make your organization even more vulnerable for lawsuits and e-discovery?
• Do your executives actually think that full text search will solve all this for them…?

Remember that ERM can be seen as the “art of throwing stuff away” since all business and legal information are retained according to defined retention schedules.

By Atle Skjekkeland.