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
QUESTION: What are the top tangible goals of a document strategy? What are the major obstacles to avoid along this journey?JOHN KNOTTS, @johnrknotts Tangible goals: The book Designing a Document Strategy... 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
EDITOR'S NOTE: One of the questions I receive the most from readers is, "How do you build content and/or document strategies in the enterprise that will succeed?" Too often, the complexity around document... 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
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
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
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
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
Since all organizations have a forms management function (even if they don’t formally recognize it), it is important that they develop and implement a forms management policy and a common strategy.... View More
Document management is such an enormous subject that it is very difficult for any organization to effectively wrap its arms around the entire system and successfully improve it. However, the document is... View More
In my travels, I have often been told how complex enterprise content management (ECM) is to understand and implement. I find this somewhat curious and disconcerting. Perhaps this is due to my longevity... View More
Looking at the 28 topics that DOCUMENT Media highlights for subscribers and knowledge management (KM) practitioners on its website, I couldn’t help but notice that some of them were direct contributors... View More
In this series, we moved through the steps CapStone typically follows in any plant evaluation: Evaluate, Automate and Validate. In this post, we will explore the last step: Demonstrate. If you have agreed... View More
As the pendulum continues to swing away from paper to eBilling, it is important to know the total value of eDelivery vs. paper. Clearly, there is a cost savings, turning a 50-plus cent bill into a fraction... View More
Despite advancements in mobile technology and an ongoing transition to digital technologies, many businesses today continue to work in traditional paper-based workflows that are extremely inefficient and... View More
Despite their pivotal role in customer journeys, forms are still viewed by many organizations as operational overhead. In a digital-first era, that outdated view is a hidden drain on revenue and a gro
2026 isn’t a year of incremental improvements in customer communications. It’s the year AI stops assisting and starts acting, and for CCM practitioners
The current state of AI document processing follows a recognizable pattern. An organization crafts a prompt — often quite sophisticated with detailed instructions and examples — passes it to a lar
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IDP, an AI-powered technology that reads documents and extracts meaning, has quickly become the advanced successor to traditional document extraction tools such as OCR
