Software, hardware, who’s kidding who? Everything keeps improving to the point of making its predecessor obsolete. This is called progress. If everything stayed the same, we would still be hunting... View More
Corporations are a class of life on planet Earth, along with humans, the animal species, the vegetal world and the planet itself (with its own sub-classes of seas, mountains, wind, oxygen and whatnot).... View More
I recently attended a US Postal Service's Postal Customer Council (PCC) meeting where the focus was on direct mail. The interesting takeaway for me was how the use of direct mail in concert with email... View More
The idea of using documents to speak to customers directly is nothing new. Since the late 90s, momentum has been building to use personalization and relevant messaging to connect more closely with customers.... View More
When we talk about customer communication strategy, the most common topic is the context of the communication. We can start by looking at the context of the pressures you face in terms of "more and less."
Attracting corporate attention to your information management/governance programs can be a hard road to travel, unless you’re directly contributing to the company’s revenue or cutting its costs.... View More
Decision makers may believe minimal or limited access is sufficient to get the benefits associated with mobile enablement. In practice, this tepid, apprehensive approach can actually create new bottlenecks
“Businesses will be paper-free!” This has been a mantra of the enterprise content management (ECM) industry since the launch of the first document imaging systems in the 1980s... View More
In my past articles, I keep insisting, time and again, the reason that documents should be very well taken care of is that managers are paid to make decisions, which are made based on knowledge... View More
The world we live in is becoming richer and more interactive, and the workplace is no exception. Partly because consumer devices include video and mobile networks that do a better job of transmitting... View More
Winning information governance buy-in is a challenge. Learn how your peers overcame this challenge so you can benefit from this unique meeting of the minds... View More
Cybersecurity is top of mind, from the boardroom and C-suite to information technology (IT), legal, finance and more, but does that translate to effective policies and actions?... View More
IBM partners with Box on cloud content management strategy. Is this a classic win-win? We’ve seen these arrangements flourish and perish. Success is not guaranteed, and the competition is not standing... View More
When it comes to e-billing, companies fall into two broad categories: (1) They have robust e-billing and e-delivery options for customers to choose, or (2) they have a limited or no electronic option... View More
One of the most complex strategies to build, execute and sustain is an enterprise-wide document strategy. It is easy to see why when the challenges in our corporate culture persist today... View More
Most people would agree with the value of speaking and writing plainly and clearly, but so many of the communications we receive from our financial, health and insurance providers are confusing... View More
| #2 TOP READ — A SharePoint steering committee meeting, which I was invited to by the chief executive officer (CEO), started off with: an operational executive telling information technology (IT)... View More
Modern, otherwise tech-savvy organizations, regardless of size, value or vertical market, are experiencing an unlikely print epidemic—and it is spreading. While many companies have made strides in... View More
If 2016 is anything like every other year, your news feed in the new year will start off with tweets, posts and articles about “Trends in Communications for 2016.” For all the buzz on the upcoming
For the past 12 months, Dr. Joe Webb, director of WhatTheyThink's Economics and Research Center, has been detailing a significant uptick in commercial printing shipments over year-ago numbers. In his... View More
