Seven Stages to Content Management

In I Column Like I CM: Seven Stages of the CM Lifecycle at eContent (Sept 8, 2005) Bob Doyle proposes that there are seven stages to the Content Management cycle rather than the three or four outlined by other writers. Most particularly he argues for an initial phase called Organization, "where categories are created, vocabularies are controlled, taxonomic hierarchies are designed, and faceted classification schemes are developed." Other stages named were creation, storage, workflow, versioning, publishing, and archives.

Doyle refers to other key texts about Content Management.