The unrelenting requirement to increase revenues, reduce costs, secure corporate assets and innovate is prompting organizations across all industries to identify areas that are ripe for digital transformation.... View More
I have a great deal of experience with organizations that place their bets on technology at the cost of the organization, or others place their bets on technology and the organization at the cost of the... View More
When we think of rolling out information management solutions, what is the single biggest risk factor for success of the project? The answer is the adoption of the new solution by the people. Why is this?... View More
There are many valid reasons why enterprises choose to outsource their document production to a third-party service provider. First, and most important, it provides companies with more time to focus on... View More
I recently wrote an article titled “Digital Transformation Means Change.” Perhaps this is a simplistic distillation of the obvious, but for many of you, how you define what this change means... View More
In a sweeping generalization, which I will subsequently withdraw from the table, I'll state that there are only two types of people: those who walk into a room confident they are the cleverest person there... View More
I recently read a provocative article by Tom Monahan in Fortune magazine called “Revving Up Your Corporate RPMs.” What struck me was his conclusion that rather than speeding up, business is... View More
We have written about the fundamental changes sweeping across the customer communications management function for the last several years. Customer experience and the way we engage our customers has challenged... View More
Back in the 1990s, large-scale digitization projects were common so that organizations could work in a fully digital environment, eliminate file cabinets, reduce risk of loss or misfiling and consolidate... View More
You do not have to search hard to find recent examples of insurance companies announcing a focus on customer experience. For example, the major US health insurer, Aetna, recently opened two in-house multicultural... View More
The mantra of our industry has long been one of "being paper-free." This is not new; we have been chanting this since the early days of document imaging. Overcoming the differences between acceptance of... View More
There have been a number of articles on how to win customers, namely, in this unsexy business of electronic document management (EDM) or electronic content management (ECM). It is, indeed, a difficult... View More
Ongoing market pressures have companies continuously searching for ways to improve corporate performance. These forces often result in companies having to do more with less. Companies, however, should... View More
The term “digital transformation” is thrown around a lot by technologists, industry analysts and strategy consultants, so much so that it’s fast becoming ubiquitous. Yet, do we know much... View More
While I’m sure I've bored many of you to death in the past about this subject, what can loosely be described as my career has really been a series of lucky accidents. One of those lucky accidents... View More
We have been accumulating electronic documents in shared drives since the innovation of networked computers and file servers in the early 1980s. Folders and sub-folders defined in shared or network drives... View More
Every day, people look at their smartphones more than 150 times on average. We are using smartphones to work; to shop; to take pictures and videos; to interact with our colleagues, friends and family;... View More
Of course not, but... Every year, I interview high school students for my undergraduate university. The school gives me the contact information, email addresses and phone numbers so I can set up an interview... View More
There are many components to developing a modern, data-driven customer communications strategy, none of which are more challenging than securing full customer data and preferences. The difficulty lies... View More
In an attempt to establish transparency and uniformity throughout a system that some may describe as inefficient, unnecessarily restrictive and unclear, President Obama issued Executive Order 13556, the... View More
