Barclay T. Blair

Mr. Blair is an advisor to Fortune 500 companies, software and hardware vendors and government institutions, and is an author, speaker and internationally recognized authority on information governance. He has led several high-profile consulting engagements at the world’s leading institutions to help them globally transform the way they manage information. He is the president and founder of ViaLumina and the Executive Director and founder of the Information Governance Initiative.


Mr. Blair is the award-winning author of the books Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance; Information Nation Warrior; and Privacy Nation. He has written and edited dozens of publications, speaks internationally on information management compliance issues and has instructed at George Washington University.
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How This $2M Success Story Will Change Information Governance to Be Business- and Results-Driven
BY Barclay T. Blair
Dec. 10 2014
The best thing about running an organization like the Information Governance Initiative (IGI) is hearing about success from information governance (IG) innovators–sometimes, weeks or even months...
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Why We Should Focus on Evidence-Based Information Governance
BY Barclay T. Blair
Nov. 17 2014
Imagine that you want to lose weight. You have tried cutting back, but it hasn’t really helped. Maybe you should get a little more exercise. Maybe you should eat less fat. Or is it sugar? Greek yogurt...
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Defining Information Governance
BY Barclay T. Blair
July 17 2014
Five years ago, in March 2009, I first published an eBook called \"Making the Case for Information Governance.\" In the eBook I discussed—among other things—how to define information governance...
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    By Andrew Bird
    The current state of AI document processing follows a recognizable pattern. An organization crafts a prompt — often quite sophisticated with detailed instructions and examples — passes it to a lar
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    The Essential Role of Welcome Kits in Member Enrollment and Retention
    By Jason Pothen
    Here are the top 7 ways a dynamic, custom welcome kit can help you maintain and grow your membership rates, improve engagement and keep your members satisfied
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    Automated Document Understanding: The Real Vector for Enterprise AI
    By Dr. John Bates
    IDP, an AI-powered technology that reads documents and extracts meaning, has quickly become the advanced successor to traditional document extraction tools such as OCR
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    The Protocol That Changes Everything
    By Alan Burger
    As technology accelerates and customers adopt their own AI assistants, the old model of static, one-way communication is starting to look a lot like sending a fax in the age of TikTok
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    Start Small, Dream Big
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