James Watson

James Watson, Jr., PhD, founded Doculabs in 1993 as a consultancy specializing in content-based applications, providing recommendations to organizations seeking to use enterprise content management (ECM) technologies to improve their management of business content. He leads Doculabs’ efforts in fulfilling speaking requests for numerous technology and business conferences. James also regularly provides articles or commentary on the industry’s key topics and issues in leading technology publications. He has spoken at over a hundred conferences in the 23-year history of Doculabs.
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Doculabs Announces Solution to Optimize the Execution of the Insurance Claims Process
BY James Watson
Feb. 17 2021
By using data exposed via Celonis process mining, the Claims Execution Solution takes the guesswork out of identifying process status and, based on Doculabs' decades of experience, suggests improvements
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Fall & Winter Digital Issue 2019
Is Cloud Content Management a Silver Bullet?
BY Bud Porter-Roth|James Watson
Jan. 8 2019
As more and more organizations look to move toward cloud content management, this particular technology segment is quickly evolving into a fragmented set of applications and tools. Today, cloud content...
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May 2017
4 Top Trends in Customer Communications From DSF 2017
BY James Watson|Tom Roberts
May 25 2017
Since the conclusion of the DOCUMENT Strategy Forum (DSF), which was held May 1-3 in downtown Chicago, we’ve had a chance to review some of the central themes emerging from the conference and our...
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Spring Digital Issue 2017
The Changing Landscape of Customer Communications
BY James Watson|Tom Roberts
April 6 2017
There are many changes in the customer communications marketplace today. As a result, many are left with some big questions: What trends will affect organizations most significantly? What are the capabilities...
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    Navigating Uncertainty
    By John Zimmerer
    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
  • Getting Billing ‘Just Right’
    By Mitch Anderson
    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. 
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    From a Tick Box to Competitive Advantage
    By Liz Stephen and Mia Papanicolaou
    If there’s one thing we’ve learned after decades in customer communications, it’s this: notifications are never “just notifications.”
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    Why Every Document Is Now a Touchpoint
    By Gary Gregg
    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
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    Turning Resistance into Resilience
    By Angele Taylor
    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