The Digital Age: Managing Digital Assets

by Andy Maher, Ken Orr

It's all bits! Things that can be reduced to bits can be aggregated, compressed, packetized, transmitted at light speed across the world, reconstituted, indexed, stored, and retrieved from anywhere on the network. Things made up of bits don't weigh anything, don't take up much space, and can be copied without destroying or reducing the usefulness of the original. Over the past 30 years, more and more things have become digitized as very fast computers and very fast communication continuously change the world in which we live. However, digital riches are creating a new generation of digital problems, including digital asset management, which is the focus of this Executive Report.