Mens Et Opera - Reloaded

For readers who might be interested, I thought it would be useful to gather together in one place links to various posts on what PIM is. Like much of what you'll find on this blog, these posts focused on PIM as a strategic business application to help retailers and manufactures take control of all the individual data points and business processes that support their product information across the value chain. On to the posts. Why PIM is disruptive Top reasons for PIM investment .  The right PIM within an organization . PIM: silos breaker ! Consider PIM when (re)defining your Direct-to-Consumer model  Heavy Meta. The role of PIM in turning data in information. MDM and PIM demystified Guest interview with CEO of Actualog Guest interview with Jorij Abraham Capgemini on Product Information Management .  Enjoy!

How can you turn information into actionable knowledge? Enough has been said as to how fast information is stacking up and we all know that this is creating a paradoxical situation. From one end, information is being gathered in spades to enable quick problem-solving. On the other end, information is locked in disparate systems hindering the very reason why information was collected in the first place. I lean on David Aeker for defense. In his  Spanning Silos, Aeker   convincingly pointed out that a silo is a metaphor for "organizational units that contain their own management team and talent and lack of motivation... to work with or even communicate with other units." Hence, the very idea of collaboration and flow of information is challenged resulting in products and solutions that in fact claim to solve the problem but in reality further segregate the knowledge base. A unified approach What we need is a unified paradigm for capturing, storing, organizing, and se...