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
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
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
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
"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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
Economic pressures, regulatory shifts and evolving consumer expectations are converging to create a complex environment for health insurers. Amid this turbulence, many payers are hesitant to invest in
How much do I owe? How do I pay? Where’s my bill? Are any of your customers asking these questions? If so, it might be time to rethink your utility bills.
When I think about how far customer communications have evolved, it’s clear that we’ve entered a new era, one where the regulated document is moving from being an artifact of a transaction
Resistance to change is a familiar challenge in any transformation initiative, but it becomes especially entrenched in document-heavy environments. These are the systems and workflows that have been b
