<p>I am really not big on speculative, future prediction posts. There are too many factors in our highly complex world that can derail even the most well researched and thought out theories for how our industry could develop, so I am going to shy away from predictions per se. Instead, I'll consider some general directions, and why other people's predictions make me laugh and make me feel like a Knowledge Management / Enterprise Content Management Grinch! Prepare for a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past 2012 Good, Bad or Ugly ?</p><p>Whether we look at Knowledge Management (KM) strategies and the tools to enable them, Enterprise Content Management (i.e. the enterprise wide efforts to manage unstructured content) or the collaboration space, it is actually quite difficult to make sweeping statements about the industry's performance over the last year, never mind make highly accurate predictions for the next one.</p><p>Let's take the categorizations from a piece of research commissioned by AIIM; these being the relationships between systems of record and systems of engagement, and a focus through three specific lenses Social, Local and Mobile (SoLoMo).</p><p>For a start, if you're not an old cynic like me and actually believe that there are massive distinctions between systems of record and systems of engagement, rather than just "old ECM marketing" and "add social to everything" would you say there were improvements during the year in both sectors?</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/enterprise-content-management-knowledge-management-collaboration-in-2013-same-old-same-old-018813.php">Keep reading...</a></p>