Do you have unstructured data? This term is used more and more each day. What is it? To best understand unstructured data, perhaps it is easier to define what it's not—structured. All businesses... View More
I’m currently working on an upcoming report on the impact of artificial intelligence on collaboration, and we’re seeing a growing trend toward what I’m calling "intelligent collaboration."... View More
“Go digital, and you’ll improve productivity,” they say. It sounds good on paper, but without stepping back to understand a paper-based process, going digital by simply enabling the scanning... View More
In all aspects of life, people like grand ideas. We must dream, and we might as well dream big. After all, this is the first step to accomplishing a goal—the place where results exist. Nevertheless,... View More
In Chicago this past week, hundreds of senior executives gathered at DSF ‘16 (DOCUMENT Strategy Forum) to discuss their own strategic journeys and how they are being impacted by industry trends like... View More
Information technology (IT) is an essential part of any organization, and with rapidly changing technologies, funding challenges, and conflicting priorities, it’s essential for organizations to have... View More
In business, the act of finding information we need is an everyday occurrence and the focus is heavily shifting to risk management and compliance. In fact, there was a significant shift in focus to risk... View More
As a technology industry analyst, I cut my teeth and traditionally wrote on technology issues. I’ve covered workplace collaboration for years and can geek out with the best of them. However, the... View More
We are amidst a time of extraordinary change and faced with very real challenges as “customer-centricity” and disruptive digital technologies rewrite the rules as we know them. Time and time... View More
The unrelenting requirement to increase revenues, reduce costs, secure corporate assets and innovate is prompting organizations across all industries to identify areas that are ripe for digital transformation.... View More
I have a great deal of experience with organizations that place their bets on technology at the cost of the organization, or others place their bets on technology and the organization at the cost of the... View More
When we think of rolling out information management solutions, what is the single biggest risk factor for success of the project? The answer is the adoption of the new solution by the people. Why is this?... View More
In a sweeping generalization, which I will subsequently withdraw from the table, I'll state that there are only two types of people: those who walk into a room confident they are the cleverest person there... View More
Back in the 1990s, large-scale digitization projects were common so that organizations could work in a fully digital environment, eliminate file cabinets, reduce risk of loss or misfiling and consolidate... View More
The mantra of our industry has long been one of "being paper-free." This is not new; we have been chanting this since the early days of document imaging. Overcoming the differences between acceptance of... 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
We have been accumulating electronic documents in shared drives since the innovation of networked computers and file servers in the early 1980s. Folders and sub-folders defined in shared or network drives... View More
In an attempt to establish transparency and uniformity throughout a system that some may describe as inefficient, unnecessarily restrictive and unclear, President Obama issued Executive Order 13556, the... View More
It’s been six years since I attended the annual Legaltech event in New York. The last time I was there in February 2010, I had the honor of presenting the Day 1 Keynote, “Don’t Build... View More
