Strategy.manage.ent

I like this paper from Deloitte. It's a nice overview of important strategic and business considerations in content management, eschewing strict technical analysis for a focus on usefulness, value, and planning. As Martin recommends:

This report is only a fraction of the length of the Content Management Bible, but it should be a potent weapon for any manager faced with senior managers who can't (or won't) grasp the value of content management.

One of my favorite quotes from the paper:

Smart organizations have realized that success rests not on getting content into a database, but on getting the right content out [...]

I had trouble getting through the Deloitte site with either of my non-standard browsers -- Opera and Phoenix -- and finally had to resort to MSIE to actually get the paper. But it's well worth the free registration and highly recommended.

Deloitte perspective on content management. This is the 100th blog entry. Well over 100 of you are reading the blog on a regular basis, which is gratifying, and makes the effort of creating the entry well worth while. My subject for today is enterprise content management. [...]
[...] One of the final paragraphs reads "In today's highly competitive and continuously evolving global marketplace, how you manage information will make or break your business. Content management can no longer be regarded as an offshot of IT. Rather, your content management approach must be indivisible from your company's overall strategy. An intelligent approach to content management integrates content assets and workflows into an overarching enterprise-wide information supply chain that can be adopted by employees, utilized by suppliers and understood by customers".
And that is a very good way to end blog entry 100. [Intranet Focus Blog]