I was recently reading a blog posting from Chuck Hollis, VP Global Marketing for EMC Corporation.  His blog post was titled, "Does Your Organization Invest in IT?"

Most organizations don’t manage their email very well – and there are a number of white papers out there about how to archive everything, or how to manage email messages as records, or the value of outsourcing email, etc. But very few of them address the reason why email is so out of control – us! Most of us don’t use email very effectively, whether on an individual message basis or in managing our inboxes. So the focus of this post is on steps you can take to be more effective in how you manage your email.

When does it make sense to hire a vendor neutral consulting company or system integrator?

Between ARMA (www.arma.org/conference/) , Content World (www.opentext.com/contentworld/2009/) , the SharePoint Conference (www.mssharepointconference.com/), and KMWorld (www.kmworld.com/kmw09/), Access Sciences has presented on and heard quite a lot about how to tackle the numerous information management and technology challenges organizations face today.