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How to Prepare Your Organization for Assessment Interviews: Setting the Stage for Success

Apr 07, 2026 Start With Clear Communication From the Sponsor Before a single interview invite goes out, preparation begins with…

How to Build the Right Interview List for an Information Management Assessment

Mar 31, 2026 Start With Leadership, Then Build Outward Selecting the right people to interview is one of the most…

The IT and Legal Hold Landscape: What Your Background Documents Reveal About Risk

The IT and Legal Hold Landscape: What Your Background Documents Reveal About Risk

March 24, 2026

Shadow IT: The Systems You Don’t Know You Have

When we request IT documentation, we’re not just checking boxes — we’re uncovering blind spots. Most IT teams maintain a system inventory, but once interviews begin, we routinely find 10–30% more systems purchased through contracts, field offices, or P-cards.

Why Background Information Requests Matter: The Hidden Foundation of Every Governance Project

March 17, 2026 The Most Overlooked Step in Governance Work Before a single interview is scheduled, before systems are mapped,…

What Assessment Interviews Reveal About Hidden Risks and Information Flow

What Assessment Interviews Reveal About Hidden Risks and Information Flow

Mar 10, 2026

What kinds of issues do assessment interviews uncover in “fully digital” organizations?

Even digital-first teams often maintain legacy habits: printing documents, boxing them, and sending them to off-site storage despite relying on electronic versions daily. This creates unnecessary cost, risk, and confusion.

Designing Assessment Questions That Actually Work

Effective interviews focus on understanding daily work rather than using technical jargon like “records.”

How Interviews Reveal the Real Problem – Not the One You Expected

How Interviews Reveal the Real Problem — Not the One You Expected
Feb 24, 2026

Why do assessments often uncover problems no one saw coming?
Because people describe how work actually happens — not how leadership thinks it happens. When you talk to 20, 40, or 60 people across an organization, the truth surfaces.

Why You Can’t Find Anything — And How to Finally Fix It

Why does it feel like finding information at work is harder than ever?

Because most organizations have grown organically, not intentionally. Over time, documents scatter across email, shared drives, personal folders, cloud tools, and legacy systems. When you need something urgently — a business case, an audit file, a contract — you’re stuck digging through digital clutter.

Shared Asset Hierarchy – Information Identification

The key to solving asset identification is to group all the departmental or functional asset labels into a shared asset…

Asset Information Management Challenges

Assets (as defined in an earlier blog post) follow a life-cycle – from design and construction, through maintenance and operation,…

Data Everywhere

February 13, 2020 In our hyper-connected world, data blasts us every minute of the day – emails, notifications, invitations, advertisements,…

Maximize Asset Data

Finance typically tracks expenditure of capital and depreciation of constructed or acquired assets at a higher level than is effective for operations and maintenance

What is an asset?

An asset is something of value that an entity owns, benefits from, or has use of in generating income. *http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/asset.html…