Content Management Strategy - Information Organization

Integral to any content management strategy are the organizational principles governing its use. Metadata, taxonomies, nomenclature—how your subject matter is organized, utilized, and presented across your enterprise—are all foremost in TechTrench's expertise.

Integrated Organizations
Today, organizations are working hard to achieve integration so that processes that are disrupted by departmental, geographical and technical boundaries can achieve the same ends across the board. Many critical processes and applications involve the organization of content, and it is now a widespread practice to structure this content using XML. Effectively, XML gives structure to content through the use of defined "elements" that are applied and systematically used.

Federated Organizations
Most large organizations use a number—quite often a vast number—of content, records, digital asset and document management protocols, all of which make use of metadata either explicityly or implicitly.

Unfortunately, many organizations have no effective metadata/ information management strategy. This creates a situation in which each business unit and each application uses its own terminologies, often redundantly, to define and describe information resources. This impedes integration efforts and makes it very difficult for employees to repurpose and reuse valuable content.

Speaking the Same Language
TechTrench specializes in creating and making controlled vocabulary (metadata, taxonomy) available to applications and users across the organization. I employ sophisticated communications support to cross the difficulties of inter-organization relations. In technical terms, that means all content applications can make use of consistent metadata. In lay terms, it means that the same language is spoken by all of the organization’s participants.

By adopting my approach, organizations can take a major but cost-effective step towards integration, can make business and technical processes much more efficient, and can radically increase the effectiveness of employees and the expertise they bring to the table for organizations collectively.