Len Asprey

Len Asprey is a Principal Consultant with Practical Information Management Solutions Pty Ltd, Australia, and provides professional information management and technology consulting services to corporations, businesses and government departments. His consultancy services include a wide range of assignments related to document management, content management, document imaging, workflow and business process analysis and re-design. Len was the founding Chair and is a Life Member of the Institute for Information Management (IIM), and is a member of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM International), affiliated through the Aloha Chapter in Hawaii. He is a recognised speaker in the information management and technology domain on the international circuit.

Publications

Integrative Information Systems Architecture: Document & Content Management
Integrative Information Systems Architecture: Document & Content Management
Len Asprey, Rolf Green, Michael Middleton. © 2011. 10 pages.
This chapter discusses the benefits of managing business documents and Web content within the context of an integrative information systems architecture. This architecture...
Integrative Document and Content Management Solutions
Integrative Document and Content Management Solutions
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2009. 6 pages.
Developments in office automation, which provided multiple end-user authoring applications at the computer desktop, heralded a rapid growth in the production of digital documents...
Integrative Information Systems Architecture: Document & Content Management
Integrative Information Systems Architecture: Document & Content Management
Len Asprey, Rolf Green, Michael Middleton. © 2009. 11 pages.
This chapter discusses the benefits of managing business documents and Web content within the context of an integrative information systems architecture. This architecture...
Integrative Document and Content Management Systems' Architecture
Integrative Document and Content Management Systems' Architecture
Len Asprey, Rolf Green, Michael Middleton. © 2005. 7 pages.
This paper discusses the benefits of managing digital content (business documents and Web content) within the context of an integrative information systems architecture. This...
Integrative Document and Content Management Solutions
Integrative Document and Content Management Solutions
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2005. 6 pages.
Developments in office automation, which provided multiple end-user authoring applications at the computer desktop, heralded a rapid growth in the production of digital documents...
Project Management for IT Projects
Project Management for IT Projects
Len Asprey. © 2005. 7 pages.
The provision of information systems, technology, and communications is a fundamental requisite to support competitive strategies and improve service levels in enterprises....
Integrative Document and Content Management: Strategies for Exploiting Enterprise Knowledge
Integrative Document and Content Management: Strategies for Exploiting Enterprise Knowledge
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 552 pages.
Integrative Document and Content Management: Strategies for Exploiting Enterprise Knowledge blends theory and practice to provide practical knowledge and guidelines to...
Introduction
Introduction
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 27 pages.
This chapter provides a brief historical perspective on the evolution of document types and introduces a new document paradigm that has emerged with digitization. It reviews the...
Business Planning Frameworks and IDCM
Business Planning Frameworks and IDCM
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 19 pages.
This chapter provides a synopsis of the contemporary business environment and reviews some internal and external factors that influence enterprise planning, with particular...
Characteristics of Enterprise Document Environments
Characteristics of Enterprise Document Environments
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 39 pages.
We now review how business and government enterprises that have yet to embark upon IDCM may be managing processing of different document types. We provide a generic description...
Characteristics of IDCM Systems
Characteristics of IDCM Systems
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 48 pages.
The last chapter reviewed the challenges of managing documents in business and government enterprises, where there is, as yet, no attempt to integrate different document and Web...
Business Systems Interfaces and IDCM Opportunities
Business Systems Interfaces and IDCM Opportunities
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 33 pages.
In this chapter, we conclude the appraisal of the characteristics of IDCM systems that we commenced in Chapter 4. This chapter begins by reviewing IDCM opportunities in the...
Project Life-Cycle Planning and Methodologies
Project Life-Cycle Planning and Methodologies
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 25 pages.
This chapter deals with the planning aspects of an IDCM project, including scope, feasibility, and life-cycle development. It reviews the typical project deliverables that may be...
Policy Framework for IDCM
Policy Framework for IDCM
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 24 pages.
This chapter deals with the development of a policy framework that enables an enterprise to articulate its policy for managing documents and content, the general principles that...
Feasibility Study
Feasibility Study
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 23 pages.
In this chapter, we examine the relevance of using a feasibility study as a key component of life cycle management that may be used when embarking on an IDCM project. The...
Building the Business Case
Building the Business Case
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 28 pages.
This chapter covers the development of a business case for the acquisition and implementation of an IDCM strategy. It provides insights to assist managers faced with the...
Requirements Analysis and Definition Framework
Requirements Analysis and Definition Framework
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 11 pages.
This chapter discusses a framework that enterprises can use for structuring the requirements analysis and definition stage of an IDCM. The framework provides guidance on...
User Requirements
User Requirements
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 25 pages.
In the last chapter, we discussed an integrative approach to developing requirements for information systems, applying Sommerville’s framework of user and systems requirements...
Functional Requirements - Digital Office Documents
Functional Requirements - Digital Office Documents
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 25 pages.
This chapter is the first in a series that reviews the requirements analysis and definition for IDCM functional requirements. We noted in Chapter 10 that functional statements...
Functional Requirements - Email Management
Functional Requirements - Email Management
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 6 pages.
In Chapter 4, we indicated that there were various technology options available to organizations for capturing email as a record of a business transaction. We briefly examined...
Functional Requirements - Physical Office Documents
Functional Requirements - Physical Office Documents
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 13 pages.
This chapter addresses the functionality for managing physical office documents using IDCM technology, so that the organization has a solution that enables them to manage digital...
Functional Requirements - Document Imaging and Recognition Technologies
Functional Requirements - Document Imaging and Recognition Technologies
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 26 pages.
In this chapter, we review the requirements for document imaging systems that enable the scanning and conversion of physical documents to image format. We also review the...
Functional Requirements - Workflow
Functional Requirements - Workflow
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 13 pages.
In Chapter 4, we reviewed how workflow management systems might be considered an integral component of IDCM architecture. We discussed the high-level functionality of workflow...
Functional Requirements - Engineering and Technical Drawings
Functional Requirements - Engineering and Technical Drawings
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 21 pages.
In Chapter 3, we discussed a range of subsystem options for managing engineering and technical drawings. The most suitable system solution is the one that meets the business...
Functional Requirements - Web Content Management
Functional Requirements - Web Content Management
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 6 pages.
When we looked at the characteristics of document and Web content management in Chapter 3, we noted that there could be many limitations with how enterprises manage content...
Nonfunctional and Domain Requirements
Nonfunctional and Domain Requirements
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 16 pages.
In this chapter, we will examine requirements determination and analysis that may be useful for defining the nonfunctional and domain requirements for an IDCM solution, including...
Package Selection
Package Selection
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 29 pages.
This chapter covers the typical procurement processes for selecting an IDCM solution and contains useful techniques for validating various solutions against requirements and...
Implementation Planning
Implementation Planning
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 20 pages.
In this chapter, we provide guidelines for implementation planning, along with techniques that can be used during the implementation process to facilitate a successful project...
Conclusion
Conclusion
Len Asprey, Michael Middleton. © 2003. 7 pages.
Many enterprises in the commercial and business sectors are yet to address the inadequacies in their document and content management environment. Given the vital role that...