There is so little traffic on here, I frequently forget that I had
signed up months ago.

That said, it doesn't help that I never introduced myself!

I'll start with my organization - As you may be aware, Delphi Group
has been involved in the Content/Information Management space from a
consulting, event, and research/advisory standpoint for roughly 16
years.

As all of this has been adopted, there have been many stumbling
points in implementation - information remains lost, even once in a
central location, and even with a central repository, anywhere from
20-80% of enterprise content is still not within the repository, and
remains unfindable.

We've been running an event called Delphi's Proving Ground for
Information Architecture & Taxonomy for nearly 5 years now, and have
had hundreds of attendees representing organizations across a wide
variety of industries, from aerospace to pharmaceuticals, financial
services to gas, power, energy, and more.

If your organization is experiencing pains with findability and in
connecting your unstructured information systems together as a
working WHOLE solution, this very project-focused (you MUST bring a
project related to Information Architecture or Taxonomy), team-
oriented (teams of 2-12 are quite common, although single attendees
are welcome) event is specifically built to help break your project
out of a stuck mode or get your freshly launched project positioned
for successful implementation.

We have been covering faceted classification as a portion of this
program since we had first created it, but are spending more and more
time within the last 9 months or so diving deeper into faceted
classification.

As for me, I've been one of the instructors/consultants with this
program area for 4 years, and have been with Delphi Group for 11+ years.

If you are interested in the formal bio for me, take a gander at:
http://www.delphigroup.com/about/people/dan_keldsen/

For the more free-form look at what I'm up to, the blog is the best
source:
http://delphigroup.blogs.com/dan_keldsen/
(and feel free to comment - let me know if I'm off my rocker, dead
on, or anywhere else on or off the target)

I will grant you that I may have been drinking our cool aid for a
while now, but I believe we provide serious value and firepower to
you, your team and your project on these topics.

The next Proving Ground is March 7-9, 2006 in beautiful Boca Raton,
Florida - which is coming up fast.

More information is at:
http://www.delphigroup.com/pg-facetedclassification

I hope to see you there, and if you have any questions, feel free to
get in touch with me directly (info below) to discuss this program,
or these topics, from any and all angles.


Cheers,
Dan
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Dan Keldsen - dan.keldsen@...
Delphi Group, A Perot Systems Company - www.delphigroup.com
111 Huntington Ave, Suite 2750 - ph: 617-247-1511
Boston, MA 02199 - fax:617-247-4957
http://www.delphigroup.com/about/people/dan_keldsen/

Delphi Group, a Perot Systems Company, is a global business advisor
and strategic market maker focusing on the intersection of business
and IT.