George Dunn

Mr. Dunn is the founder and president of CRE8 Independent Consultants and is a worldwide recognized consultant, speaker, instructor, contributing editor and author on business process innovation and improvement, paperless technologies and complex computer system replacement planning. He has over 25 years of experience in the advanced technology and process improvement industry. Reach him at www.cre8inc.com.

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June 6 2022
Is your organization involved in planning for or implementing digital workflow? To be successful, your organization will need to hire or train a workflow subject matter expert (SME). An important cons
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Jan. 20 2020
Studies we have conducted, as independent consultants, of thousands of enterprise and departmental processes find that 5% to 30%+ of the work performed is manual, duplicative, and unnecessary
Are Your Electronic Records a Ticking Time Bomb
Jan. 31 2018
Security breaches, privacy violations, and lawsuits are in the news every day. Today, it is a matter of when, not if, it will happen. When hackers breach your security, what will they do with your internal...
Enterprise Content Management Plan - DOCUMENT Stra
March 1 2017
Today, organizations are increasing the deployment of electronic content management (ECM) technologies to support information governance (IG)/records and information management (RIM) goals and to improve...
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Dec. 6 2016
I’m a great fan of tea. It’s funny, because I can pay one cent for a basic black tea bag, 20 cents for a bag in a fancy package, or four dollars for a cup of tea from the local coffee store....
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Nov. 16 2016
"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."
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Oct. 5 2016
It’s in the news: Air bags don’t work, cellphone batteries catch fire, a customer's outrage goes viral on social media, profitability is down, increasing employees' unrest, lawsuits, and regulatory...
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Sept. 1 2016
Today, the word "vendor" or "customer" in many companies can still bring up a less than enthusiastic response from internal staff, who are under pressure to work with both of these organizations. With...
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Jan. 19 2016
In today’s world, documents, whether paper or electronic, must be routed through an organization to trigger action. Although email is perceived to be superior to paper, it has caused significant...
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Nov. 4 2015
Enough said about proper electronic content management (ECM) technology planning, creating LEAN workflows and integrating electronic records management (ERM). Instead, in memory of unsuccessful initiatives...
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Sept. 29 2015
| #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)...
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Aug. 26 2015
Our independent consulting studies find that by utilizing electronic content management (ECM) and workflow technologies, an organization can improve document access time, process quality, efficiency and...
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July 15 2015
Many of the comments I hear from executives regarding information governance planning include: "We don’t want to boil the ocean." "There are too many conflicting definitions." "No one follows it
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June 9 2015
In a recent conversation with a vice president, he threw his hands up in frustration as he told me how exasperated he was trying to figure out the cause of a customer crisis. He pointed at his email screen...
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April 9 2015
I’ve been hearing a lot of angry outbursts from workers, frustrated with shared “group” level electronic content management (ECM) systems. Complaints include: It takes too long to index...
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Feb. 12 2015
Culture can be defined as the ideals, beliefs, behaviors and morals of an organization. Some describe culture as the "soul” of an organization. However, if the culture is not clear or aligned with...
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April 25 2014
Re-engineering process improvement methodology and workflow technology, as applied to content routed in email and paper, can result in a dramatic reduction of product/service cost and non-value added steps....
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March 31 2014
Applying Six Sigma process improvement methodology and electronic content management (ECM) technology to documents currently stored in email, shared network drives and paper can result in a significant...
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March 19 2014
LEAN and digital signature technology results in 79% improvement in efficiency, 78% reduction in waste and customer service response time decreased from 2 or 4 days to ½ day. What is LEAN?LEAN,...
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March 12 2014
What are paperless technology abilities, risks and benefits? Abilities include functionality to capture, receive, store, index, version, route, approve, manage, retain and dispose of electronic content....
  • Generative AI (GenAI) is set to revolutionize the Customer Communications Management (CCM) industry, driving profound changes in how businesses interact with their customers
  • Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a 3-part series on AI in CCM. You can find part 1 in our Spring issue. Look for part 3 in the next issue
  • Today, executives are excited about the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to help their businesses grow and innovate, potentially transforming every part of work, delighting customers with new e
  • Personalization is the core of what we do in CCM, and we do this on a scale that still requires specialized software that cannot be replaced by marketing or office editing tools. The number of persona
  • In today's fast-paced business environment, the future of efficiency and productivity is automation