trump_email
Dec. 14 2016
During his 2016 presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump largely focused on issues other than technology and information governance policies. Where in contrast, Barack Obama’s policies... View More
unstructureddata
Dec. 13 2016
In this age of hyperconnectivity, it’s not about if we have data but about how we use this data to drive business outcomes and intelligent decision-making. There’s a lot of discussion on the... View More
AI
Dec. 8 2016
What major changes happening now will transform the document management landscape over the coming years? Over time, products improve through innovation, but it can be tough to understand which innovation... View More
tea
Dec. 6 2016
I’m a great fan of tea. It’s funny, because I can pay one cent for a basic black tea bag, 20 cents for a bag in a fancy package, or four dollars for a cup of tea from the local coffee store.... View More
ExceptionalCX
Dec. 5 2016
US companies spend millions of dollars each year developing the best strategies and tactics to reach their target audience and increase sales. In fact, a survey on chief marketing officers (CMOs) found... View More
memories
Dec. 2 2016
We classify documents as we classify our memories. For documents, we use categories like "Type of Document" (e.g., invoice, bank statement, contract, video presentation, etc.), "Date of Document," "Number... View More
maildelay
Nov. 28 2016
Business communications and commerce have been dependent, and still are, on the United States Postal Service (USPS), despite the rise of email, e-billing, and portals. In the face of declining mail volumes... View More
Line
Nov. 22 2016
I am not sure if it was General Patton, Lee Iacocca, or Thomas Paine, but someone said, “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” In any case, it’s time for customer experience (CX) thinking.... View More
jargon
Nov. 21 2016
In the collaboration space, and specifically in the unified communications and collaboration (UCC) market, we get so caught up on our own jargon, technical terms, naming conventions, and identifying categories... View More
funding
Nov. 17 2016
One of the big challenges for information governance professionals is getting buy-in from business stakeholders and sponsors for funding projects. Often, there is a perceived poor return on investment... View More
frictionless
Nov. 16 2016
"Friction loses sales, hurts customer service, causes frustration, results in complaints on social media, wastes time and money, and creates problems that shouldn’t have happened in the first place."
cloudrisks
Nov. 10 2016
For enterprises looking to move to the cloud, or identifying if there is a need to remediate existing deployments, the difference between a successful assessment and an anemic one is the capability of... View More
EDM
Nov. 9 2016
During a workshop at a large corporation discussing the benefits of electronic document management (EDM), it was interesting to find that there were almost as many concepts of EDM as were people in the... View More
voices
Nov. 8 2016
The chances are that if you’re reading this, you’re an experienced professional in your industry, and if you’re not, I’d wager strongly that you are probably are but in denial as... View More
sailing
Nov. 7 2016
Determining whether to shut down your internal print and mail operation and outsource to a print service provider can be a tough conversation—as opposed to keeping it in-house and potentially making... View More
CoEIG
Nov. 3 2016
Last month, I wrote about the need to dedicate resources for enterprise content management (ECM) in order to have a successful program attain rapid time‑to‑value. I wrote about the need for a center of... View More
CCM hybrid cloud
Nov. 1 2016
Last time, I introduced the idea of employing a software as a service (SaaS) customer communications management (CCM) approach to meet the critical customer experience challenges that lie ahead in... View More
apcard
Oct. 31 2016
There are an ever-expanding number of ways to pay your bills. On a personal level, most of us attempt to use our credit cards (either to get cash back or earn points) or pay via online banking (to speedily... View More
cloudassessment
Oct. 26 2016
Are you in the cloud? Are you going to the cloud? Moving electronic content and its management to the cloud drives great benefits in terms of reducing information technology (IT) storage costs and support... View More
growthCCM
Oct. 24 2016
Maturity models are not new, and chances are you or your organization has utilized a maturity model in the past. A maturity model enables an organization to assess its methods and processes according... View More