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
Question: How do you partner with the IT/development resources for your capture platform during the process of designing or optimizing forms? JOHN KNOTTS, @johnrknottsSo, this is a tactical solution to... 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
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
QUESTION: What are some best practices or steps in selling the document strategy, especially if it supersedes other strategies and is only subordinate to the overall business strategy? JOHN KNOTTS, @johnrknottsThe... 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
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
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
