Profile: Erik Hartman

Erik is an independent consultant in the field of information architecture, content strategy, and communications strategy. His company Hartman Communicatie has specific expertise in the fields of IT related change management, knowledge management and enterprise content management.

Hartman's customer base spans the 500 largest firms and governmental entities in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Hartman Communicatie publishes a Dutch content management portal and an online overview of enterprise content management systems.

Erik is also vice-president of CM Professionals, the international content management community of practice with more than 500 members. Within CM Professionals Erik is involved in CMSML, a Markup Language for describing and classifying content management systems.

Keynote: Why do content management projects fail?

Thursday, November 10th, 13.00

However successful your content management system (CMS) roll-out proves to be in terms of technical achievement, your project will fail unless you find a way of overcoming the inevitable cultural barriers which a project of this nature entails.

A change management strategy should run parallel to a CMS implementation yet this remains the most frequently-cited reason for failure among project managers.

Whilst the issue is a complex one, it is by no means impossible, and in this keynote Erik will show you how to build the foundations for real user acceptance.

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Roundtable: Classifying and Selecting a Content Management System

Erik facilitates the interactive discussion Wednesday at Voxhall.

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Panel:

Erik is moderating the Web communication panel.

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