If there is one thing that the technology industry has never been short of, then that would be big ideas. Regardless of how on many occasions, perhaps most, the realization of those ideas falls short of... View More
The Mopria Alliance was formed by a small group of technology companies with the mission to facilitate and ease the pain of printing from smartphones and tablets. The alliance is a global nonprofit organization... View More
Successful enterprise content management (ECM) business cases align with organizational planning imperatives, demonstrate creativity and innovation in solution concepts, deliver value for money and offer... View More
Once the need for a signature has been established, there are several methods that can be employed for signing electronic forms. The validity of the signature is all about the process used to collect... View More
“Not disposing of your documents is very risky! Keeping all documents all the time is even worse!!” How many times have we heard some variation on the theme that not destroying documents according... View More
Document management has become one of the most elusive business concerns of the information age. Those that aggressively seek to improve operations are now finding that their document production and management... View More
This is an interesting comment: help wanted. To many of us, this would be interpreted as a company seeking employees, but for the sake of this article, I suggest it means the company is seeking expertise... View More
At the end of the day, it’s all about cash flow–how to improve cash flow and lower collection costs by growing electronic payments. Every department in an organization plays its part. Healthy... View More
Whether you’re planning to rewrite all your documents to improve your customer’s experience or planning to migrate them from a legacy platform to a modern publishing system and possibly convert... View More
In Profiles of the Future 51 years ago, Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Cavemen froze sleeping on coal beds.” The irony of this statement is alive and well today for corporate decision makers... View More
In the last post, I discussed evaluating the commitment to your print to mail operation. Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting... View More
The term silo has become something of a stop word; a term that when we hear it or read it, we almost begin to lose concentration (or for that matter, consciousness) from what other part of the message... View More
Have you implemented an effective set of metrics and measures within your customer communications management program (CCM)? For some of our clients, these metrics and measures are sketchy at best, or have... View More
So much attention is paid to the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon and trends around mobile device deployment and adoption in the workplace. Mobile devices are already changing the way we work—and... View More
For many companies, a cloud file sharing system is a real relief. It is inexpensive; it is easily provisioned; there is no (or hardly any) IT work; and the users were using free versions anyway. And a... View More
The implementation of a well-structured, architected document repository management system provides a foundational capability for organizations to develop innovative content-enabled business solutions.... View More
Whether teaching, lecturing or just talking about enterprise content management (ECM) with folks, one thing commonly told to me is that the technology is in place, but the findability situation is still... View More
Many of the large insurance and financial services firms send as much as 100 million pieces of billing and statement mail each year. All are trying to reduce their print and mail expense budgets by going... View More
With the 2014 DOCUMENT Strategy Forum almost here, it is a good time to reflect on the state of document management inside large organizations. Consider the mission of the three-day event in Greenwich,... View More
Surprise! Your company is not the center of the universe. Unfortunately, too many companies think of themselves as being the center of their customer\'s universe. While this “may” be true for... View More
