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Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.

Bob Larrivee

Bob is the President and Founder of Bob Larrivee Consultancy. An internationally recognized Subject Matter Expert and thought leader with over thirty years of experience in the fields of information and process management, Bob is an avid techie with a focus on the application of advanced technologies to enhance business operations. 

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Capture and Imaging

Why Should You Care about Real-Time Capture?

Why should your organization care about the differences between real-time capture and batch capture? Each has a purpose and benefit to an organization, based on the need, information type, and value it represents in relation to operational outcomes. Many businesses today, are facing increased demands to capture information from unique applications immediately, and address multi-channel capture at the first touch-point of content. They are looking for ways to identify and harness the power of the most effective and efficient capture services to automate the capture process and integrate it with business critical processes and workflows. These developing requirements are defining the discussions around real-time capture.

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Capture and Imaging  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

What are Open Platforms?

What exactly does it mean to have an “open platform”? The perception is that an open platform has no restrictions or limitations; an open platform is agnostic. Yet reality is that there could be some limitations or restrictions. For example, there are ECM solutions that are built upon a proprietary database and are still considered to be “open”. The reason being they support a specific set of open standards for interoperability and integration. While the concept is sound, and many businesses look to a day where interoperability and integration across the enterprise is achieved, AIIM research finds that only 8% of organizations have accomplished this.

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14 Steps to a Successful ECM Implementation

Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.

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Information Security  |  Privacy

Lions and Tigers and Facebook – Oh My!

Yep, that is what I hear these days, reminiscent of the scene from the Wizard of Oz when they are entering the forest, knowing that there are animals and possible danger hiding in the shadows. Yet they choose to enter anyway.

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Paperless Office

Did You Hear the One about Being Paper-Free?

Oh, that joke is as old as you can imagine, and I have heard a lot of them. And I have heard “offices will be paper-free when (you fill in the blank)”. In fact, I was once one of those people and, to an extent, still am because it is still true.

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Process Improvement

3 Steps to Expand Your Business Intelligence View

For many years now, we have heard the song of business intelligence, how important it is, and how organizations will be increasing their focus in this area, but to what degree? When it is only data being analyzed, there is a shortfall, and that is related to the processes. It is one thing to look at data, but without knowing the processes, analyzing them, and identifying areas for improvement, business organizations will miss the true potential of extending business intelligence to the fullest.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Enterprise Agility: A Must Do – No Longer Nice to Have

Have you taken time lately to think about how today, everything happens fast and needs to get faster? Especially your critical business processes ranging from human resources, marketing, sales, engineering—everything seems to be running at a breakneck pace. The reality is that work is always working, even if we aren’t directly involved.

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