Discerning Insights | Professional Perspectives
MER Merlin is part of the MER Conference suite of year-round offerings, and is designed to enhance understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing IG professionals. Merlin is headed by industry thought-leader and analyst, John Mancini. John is firmly rooted in the IG community and lends his expertise as an industry analyst and thought-leader to help better position your products and services.
Guilty Pleasures, Survivor, and Information Management
Even our guiltily COVID pleasures — like Survivor — can teach us something in the real world.
Which is the real Mancini?
Last week - courtesy of Zasio Enterprises - I presented “Why the Heck Should I care About ChatGPT” to the ARMA Idaho chapter…
What would HAL say about the printing press?
We’re in the crazy phase of #ChaGPT and #AI. What’s next? Should we be worried?
Top 10 movies about Electronic Records, selected by a non-human
Here are 10 key movies that involve electronic records, selected by our friendly non-human, ChatGPT.
Looking back to 2008 - Can the past teach us anything?
I’ve been having conversations about the current state of the economy, uncertainties about inflation, and the impact of both on information management spending. I went back to a post in 2008 on the cusp of the last significant recession, as a check on my [dubious] predictive capabilities.
Two glimmers of hope on the authenticity horizon
Without guarantees of information authenticity, we have no records. And without records, we have no history.
An acrostic poem about information governance
Writing poetry can be a tricky business, but especially for a computer and especially about information governance.
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11 Key Information Governance Trends
11 Key IG Trends for 2023 — and a true Man/Machine collaboration.
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Happy New Year! What’s New?
The year in review — all my posts, in one place — and three action items for 2023.
Fasten your AI Seatbelts
I’ve written a few posts on different platforms about my latest preoccupation and rabbit hole escape, ChatGPT, and imagine there will be more.
The world is about to turn upside down…
The world as we know it is about to change…Find out more about ChatGPT.
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The OxyMorons - Collaboration, Compliance, and Analytics - S3E2
Today’s guest on The OxyMorons is Rich Palarea, CEO and co-founder of Kermit. Kermit is an analytics platform that delivers insight to the fragmented spend category of physician preference items (PPI).
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The OxyMorons - Moving IG to Prime Time - S3E1
Today’s guest on The OxyMorons is Mike Salvarezza, Vice President of Content Development for the MER Conference, talking about the role of IG in generating organizational truth and authenticity.
End of Summer Recap
What issues would you like to see covered at next year’s MER Conference? What speakers? Give me your thoughts and ideas as a comment on this post, and I’ll make sure that the MER team – especially Seth Williams and Mike – are copied on your ideas.
Last call - M365 Tips from the Experts
This is the last in a series of blog posts about the findings in a new MER Merlin report on automated governance in M365. This post will featuring a series of tips from our M365 Expert Panel.
The Gap Between M365 Intentions and Reality
This post will make the case that M365 automated governance and compliance adoption is still in the early stages and that most organizations have not caught up with capabilities of the platform.
M365 Change Management Critical
This post will focus on understanding how the pace of change in M365 is a significant challenge and makes the case that effective change management is more important than ever before.
M365 Alignment Lacking in Most Organizations
In this post, I make the case that the alignment of business, information governance, and M365 governance strategies is increasingly critical → But is sorely lacking in most organizations.
M365 Governance and Information Chaos
This is the first in a series of blog posts about the findings in a new MER Merlin report on automated governance in M365. This first post will focus on understanding the context in which organizations are grappling with their M365 deployments -- A rising tide of information chaos.