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
A recent blog from my colleague Bob Larrivee asks, “Why Everyone Thinks ECM Is So Complex.\" His point was, “There is a tendency to view [enterprise content management] ECM as a complex set... View More
Knowing the true value of an electronic customer (for eBilling and eDelivery) will allow management to make better decisions about a) communications strategy and b) the amount of corporate resources to... View More
Video consumption is growing rapidly, as people access it in nontraditional ways, such as the Internet and on mobile devices. The millions of clips on YouTube prove that they also enjoy creating video... View More
For well over a decade, organizations have been looking to print and document management initiatives as a way to reduce costs, increase employee productivity and better meet regulatory/compliance and environmental/sustainability... View More
Epiphany! Merriam-Webster defines epiphany as \"a moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way.\" I have been an IT professional for over 30 years and have seen my... View More
Document and content collaboration all comes down to the individuals that interact with it—the users, the people. They are defined by consumer experience expectations and mobility as a style of working,... View More
A customer communication is rarely just a document. It is a claim being paid, a benefit being explained, a disclosure that has to be exactly right. It is the moment a person decides whether the organi
How might highly regulated organizations maintain a competitive edge while balancing rising customer expectations with strict adherence to regulatory requirements?
There is a conversation happening in boardrooms and compliance offices across financial services, insurance, healthcare and utilities that tends to start with regulation and end with obligation. Organ
