It is fascinating that more and more people are going to universities to gain specialized skills in all sorts of different areas, as well as moving onto master’s and doctorate degrees, which require... View More
Summer has come and gone, and economic conditions seem marginally better than they were when I wrote my February column (I think the terminology is "less worse"). To survive the recession, most companies... View More
There are many components to developing a modern, data-driven customer communications strategy, none of which are more challenging than securing full customer data and preferences. The difficulty lies... View More
Pierre de Muelenaere, President & CEO I.R.I.S. Group; Mikel Irizar, SVP Marketing Scytl; Jean-Pierre Marcelle, COO Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment I.R.I.S., member of the Canon Group and provider... View More
With all the hype about Big Data and predictive analytics, we are seeing a plethora of technology providers tout how great their analytics capabilities are. Analytics is the new black! Predictive analytics... View More
As part of the implementation planning process for a cloud-based content management system, the migration of existing documents and content should be considered. Many cloud content management systems (CCMS)... View More
Can you imagine a world without paper in today's corporate office? But the idea of a paperless society will not happen in our lifetime. The futurists who were ushering in the age of the paperless society... View More
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,... View More
There are a few things that seem to be constant in my life: I’ve got my first cold of the Winter just a few days before I head off on holiday, and I'm writing this post at my kitchen table right... 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
There is a lot of buzz and plenty of buzzwords around the idea of improving your company\'s customer experience. Today, this communication is occurring across a wider variety of devices, platforms and... View More
There have been a number of articles on how to win customers, namely, in this unsexy business of electronic document management (EDM) or electronic content management (ECM). It is, indeed, a difficult... View More
SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), announced the third major expansion of an already successful strategic relationship to... View More
The inexorable march toward customer experience and engagement strategies sweeping though organizations of all industries is changing the way we think and operate as businesses. Gartner predicts, “By... View More
Last time, in Part 1, Mukul analyzed how to acquire customers, which is "The Foundation for Your Web Strategy." Part 2 moves onto the next two steps: serving customers by engaging customer dynamics and... View More
You do not have to search hard to find recent examples of insurance companies announcing a focus on customer experience. For example, the major US health insurer, Aetna, recently opened two in-house multicultural... View More
Solimar Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of production printing and secure document delivery solutions, announced the release of SOLsearcher Enterprise (SSE) version 3.4. SSE 3.4 is a powerful... View More
Shifts in consumer behaviors, business policies, technologies and services have driven sustained changes within the presentment and payment markets in the United States. This can be seen in the strong... View More
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has long been recognized as a tool that clicks buttons faster than humans, excelling at repetitive tasks like moving files or exporting reports
For decades, customer communications management (CCM) has focused on outbound engagement, such as statements, explanations of benefits (EOBs) and annual notifications of changes (ANOCs), delivered in
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
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.
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
