Whoosh!!!!!! Was that the sound of your customers or technology passing you by? If you’re still printing and mailing the majority of the communications and interactions that you have with your customers,... View More
Question: When creating a strategy, what’s the difference between the tactical side of the strategy or the strategic side? How do I determine what’s really important?JOHN KNOTTS, @johnrknottsI'm... View More
\"The only thing that is constant is change.\" This saying has been used throughout the ages. However, as technology infiltrates the business world, change becomes more rapid. New innovations in hardware... View More
As the economic recovery progresses, organizations continue to seek ways to control costs and boost employee productivity in order to grow or maintain profits. At the same time, the savvy organization... View More
There is a lot of buzz growing once again about information governance and the importance of organizing information to align with compliance requirements and findability. This is not a new concept nor... View More
Question: Can you give an example of what a strategic framework for a document strategy would include? What are some short-term and long-term goals?JOHN KNOTTS, @johnrknotts I explain in my blog post,... View More
Last month, I wrote about seven areas which are positively impacted when companies migrate customers from paper to eDelivery and eBilling. This month, let’s focus on the environment. Businesses are... View More
The key component of this new world of customer communications is, of course, the Internet. The web makes it possible for people–regardless of whether they’re document authors or document recipients–to... View More
Like everything else, today’s office printing market is heavily influenced by ongoing changes in workforce behavior and advancements in mobile technologies. The continued focus on mobile printing... View More
Global reputation management across borders in 2014 is where local reputation management with multiple stakeholders was in the late 1990s. For leading multinationals, it will get harder before it gets... View More
The image capture market encompasses so many applications: cameras, digital copiers, imaging equipment, scanners and more. These applications are now ubiquitously applied in mission-critical roles across... View More
The Cloud. It is everywhere you turn. Vendors that stand to profit by it tell you to embrace it. Vendors that stand to lose market share to it tell you to fear it. At two conferences this month, I heard... View More
One hot, new enterprise trend is mobile content management (MCM). Some will argue that “it’s just content management” and you don’t need the mobile descriptor. However, I believe... View More
The farther we’ve come, the farther it seems we have to go. It wasn’t all that long ago that the people in your print operations couldn’t tell exactly how a specific document would look... View More
Much has been written about the paperless office and the likelihood that it will ever—or should ever—be achieved. Recent IDC research looked at paper usage and paper reduction initiatives by... View More
Plus ça change, plus c\'est la même chose. I was reminded of this French saying (Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr) when I attended the Box user conference, BoxWorks 2014, in early September.... View More
If you look at the word intelligence, you may find Webster’s definition to include “the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one\'s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective... View More
The modern workplace has a somewhat contradictory relationship with print. As more companies embrace workflow technology that enables them to streamline paper-intensive business processes, and as their... View More
Corporate reputations have only been measured in earnest since the 1990s, and within the nascent management discipline of reputation management, there continues to be a healthy debate about how to use... View More
There has been a great deal of confusion around the term information governance (IG) and how it is often confused with other similar industry terms, such as information technology (IT) governance and data... View More
Enterprise software has aimed to remove friction, reduce reliance on technical resources and put more control in the hands of the teams who understand the task at hand
AI has dominated headlines for the past few years in the regulated communications space, and in many ways, deservedly so. It can automate processes, personalize at scale and accelerate the production
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