### Streetlight effect killing M365 Governance

**Date:** May 6, 2024  
**Author:** Martin Erasmuson  
[Streetlight effect killing M365 Governance](/content/new-blog/2024/5/6/streetlight-effect-killing-effective-m365-governance/index.html)

Context first, before the Microsoft 365 reporting lolly-scramble.

### ICT commitment-creep and organisational schizophrenia

**Date:** April 23, 2024  
**Author:** Martin Erasmuson  
[ICT commitment-creep and organisational ...](/content/new-blog/2024/4/23/ict-commitment-creep-and-organisational-schizophrenia/index.html)

How prolonged and ineffective data strategy; poor data culture, and data-debt has led to organisational schizophrenia!, and what we can do about that.

### Why a data strategy - now more than ever? 2023 Govt. Data Summit

**Date:** March 17, 2024  
**Author:** Martin Erasmuson  
[Why a data strategy - now more than ever? 2023 ...](/content/new-blog/2024/3/17/why-a-data-strategy-now-more-than-ever-2023-govt-data-summit/index.html)

### Time for a Military-Grade Information Infrastructure

**Date:** April 20, 2020  
**Author:** Martin Erasmuson  
[Time for a Military-Grade Information ...](/content/new-blog/2020/4/20/time-for-a-military-grade-information-infrastructure/index.html)

As we find ourselves in the thick of the 4th Industrial Revolution with the exponential growth of and demand for information at its core, the current COVID 19 crisis has thrown a spotlight on antiquated information infrastructures. We stumble from crisis to crisis with severe consequences that seem obvious in hindsight, before reverting to our old way of thinking. As we step into a deeply uncertain future, is it finally time to admit to that uncertainty and implement a Military Grade Information Infrastructure that can respond to continuous change?

### Taming Office 365 – Flow

**Date:** February 10, 2020  
**Author:** Martin Erasmuson  
[Taming Office 365 – Flow](/content/new-blog/2020/2/9/taming-office-365-flow/index.html)

Microsoft Flow is both a ‘Good-Cop’ and ‘Bad-Cop’ with potential for great benefits and risks in equal measure.

### Information Architect's Poem

A poem by Martin Erasmuson (to the rhythm of ‘[Let it Snow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7LW0Y00kE)’).

Oh, the OIA’s have been frightful,  
Though our workflows are quite delightful,  
But some virus came from the web,  
It has spread, it has spread, it has spread.

...

Cleaning data until we all swore,  
It’s like a million-piece Jigsaw,  
But it keeps me in butter and bread,  
Keep it spread, keep it spread, keep it spread.

### Conclusion

In spite of a desire to innovate and thrive, why do many organisations stagnate and some fail?

How did a one-night-stand with a fast and loose database application in 1992 destroy data management for 25 years?

### A final note

Anyone still having trouble with the concept of exponential, unexpected change, keep looking at any international news website over the next few days until you come right.  
Unplanned, unforeseen, continuous, unrelenting change is the key underlying condition of today’s world.