Number 3 really hits home for me as I have been preaching this for years. Content Management, in and of itself is not the point. It is the solutions you can build to power task and decision automation that are the point. If capture/store/retrieve was the point we might as well stick file shares. The author makes an amusing point of the “scariness of network drives still existing. I agree.

By Laurence Hart – This is the beginning of a new age. We have seen computers move from mainframes in large institutions to devices in our pockets and homes. The internet has made the flow of information faster than we know how to handle. The things we can do on our phones today makes every Star Trek episode from before 2007 look dated.

However, this is just the beginning. Information’s dominance is not going away. We are unlikely to progress to the next age until the management of information becomes universally seamless.

The content management professionals of today are like the blacksmiths of the Iron Age. We learn how to take these new tools and apply them to old problems. And we are still discovering new tools. We are exploring our limits, but it is hard work. Our brains at times hold on to old limits while we watch modern capabilities expand at rapid rates.

The key to progress is to take what we have learned and keep building. Until success is the default for every project, we need to keep working together to find the right paradigms. Most importantly, don’t give up. Today’s information professional is a trailblazer doing hard, but important work. Commit to keep moving things forward. Read On: