The digital workplace encompasses many technologies that require enterprises to focus on a sound, holistic strategy, which should include synergy between the technologies required to support key business... View More
Just a few short years ago, customer communication management (CCM) was boring. It was dull, old-fashioned, and not digital enough, making archaic print pages from all those old mainframe and client-server... View More
On April 6, 2016, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released its "Criteria for Managing Email Records in Compliance with the Managing Government Records Directive (M-12-18)." NARA’s... View More
Over the last decade, hundreds of billions (maybe even trillions) of communications have left our industry. It didn’t happen all at once. It happened a little at a time—one project at a time.... View More
This is a question that many organizations should be asking and prepared to answer when it comes to process. For many organizations, the answer is, "Yes, we have someone responsible," and this may well... View More
When the last person leaves the office at night, the doors are supposed to be locked with the alarm set, but tonight, the alarm is off, and a side door is left propped open by a provider. When no one is... View More
After a long debate and a lot of reading, the company decides an electronic document management (EDM) solution is imperative. Budgets have been released, and the chief executive officer (CEO) is personally... View More
Information governance (IG) might be thought of as the next level of records management. It enlarges the profile of records management and involves more of the organization and its processes. If achieved,... View More
I attended the DOCUMENT Strategy Forum (DSF ’16) in Chicago and, as usual, found the meeting to be very insightful. The quality of the discussions was excellent, and the messaging was consistent... View More
Organizations receive thousands of inbound communications via mail and email every day—many of which are business documents, such as enrollment forms, applications, claim forms, and other correspondence,... View More
Faced with maturing markets and increased competition, many companies are seeking to differentiate themselves by enhancing their customer experience, but those efforts might be misguided. That’s... View More
I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion about big data at the DOCUMENT Strategy Forum (DSF '16). The panel was moderated by Lane Severson from ... View More
Over the last several years, the fervor around the “customer experience” has only exponentially increased. Why? It’s becoming clear that it’s tied to an attention-grabbing outcome—yes,... View More
Digital transformation has been a buzzword for quite some time, and it’s easy to see why. It’s hard to empower revenue streams, reinvent customer experience, or launch breakthrough products... View More
OpenText Corporation, Canada’s largest software company with roughly $2B in global sales, announced it is buying HP Exstream for $315M. Exstream is a market-leading customer communications management... View More
We hear so much discussion about the digital workplace and digital transformation that we’ve made it into some sort of business destination. However, we forget about the bridge called "experience"... View More
It’s this tension between orchestration and execution that I have seen in my travels looking at the digital marketing and sales technology markets—and, for the most part, a glaring hole where... View More
Digital communications have exposed a company to huge fines as well as public embarrassment and customer attrition. These dangers are not new. Traditional paper communications could have had the same effect.... View More
Hidden in your piles and terabytes of structured and unstructured information is a small portion of data that reveals business trends. The insights derived from this data can deliver true value and be... View More
If you didn’t already know, there is a new sheriff in town within the corporate structure, and it’s the chief information security officer (CISO). If you need proof, look no further than the... View More
