My two-day Governance and Taxonomy Workshop costs $4,000 per day. This includes the first fifteen (15) participants and there is an additional charge of $250 for each additional participant. The $250 covers participation and materials for both days. So the workshop typically costs between $8,000 and $12,000 including expenses. If this seems expensive, please consider the following quotation from the trade journal "NetworkWorld":
A company that employs 1,000 information workers can expect more than $5 million in annual salary costs to go down the drain because of the time wasted looking for information and not finding it, IDCresearch found last year.
Think that’s bad? A surveythis month of 1,000 middle managers found that more than half of the information they find during searches is useless.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/012307-wasted-searches.html
Here is the key principle everyone seems to miss. The biggest reason the search engines are ineffective is because your organization's leadership has to decide what information matters and how it is to be treated and managed. In other words, no corporate search and management technology is going to be able to effectively meet your information needs unless your senior leadership team can agree on the policies that govern that information.
My workshop provides several deliverables, including a pilot project charter, a governance plan, and the top-level of a taxonomy of policies that you can use to guide your information management requirements.
I also spend the first four hours or so providing an executive overview of the recent advancement in information management technologies, what they mean to your organization, and the key information you as a business leader need to provide effective direction for your technology teams. This is all done without technobabble so that you can immediately begin effectively managing your enterprise information and intellectual property.
In other words, I provide the vital information and skills your leadership team needs to effectively guide the use of information technologies (any information technologies) within your organization. Because senior leaders are intelligent and pressed for time, I've found that this process can be compressed into two very tough days. That is, by the way, why my company is called VitalSkill LLC. Life is short and the market is competitive. We just don't have time to focus on anything except the most vital skills you need to stay competitive.
Keep in mind that this is a workshop and not a class or seminar. I'm the coach, you are the star athletes and together we're actually going to get this done in two days. We won't just talk about it, we'll actually do it. Please remember that I've successfully done the work with some of the biggest and most prestigious organizations in the world. It works.
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