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Wrestling with the Paper Mountain: A Real-World Information Challenge

Discovering What We Actually Have At The Salvation Army Australia, we're facing what I call the "Paper Mountain" - we have this paper mountain, and we don't know what's in most of it. We don't know whether it helps us, whether it hurts us. We know it costs us money every year to store it, but we don't know what's in it.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

From Passive Collection to Process Integrity: How Information Management Has Changed

The Early Days: When We Just Collected Everything When I first joined the information management industry some 25-30 years ago, there was an assumption that information was simply what the business did. They produced it, we trusted it, and our job was to collect it. We never really questioned the information - we just collected it.

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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 Governance  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Powering Information: Shell's Approach for the Future of IM

At Shell, we recently held an IM business strategy workshop that brought together IM business leads from different lines of business. The goal? To connect the dots between information and data management and chart our approach for the coming years.

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Capture and Imaging

Why Information Management Practitioners Should Care about Document Capture Standards

As an advocate for advanced imaging technologies and standards, I'm often asked why information management practitioners should care about imaging standards like those developed by the TWAIN Working Group. The answer is simple yet profound: these standards are crucial for efficient, accurate, and secure information acquisition and management.

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Elevating Information Management: Shell's Journey to Maturity

At Shell, we're on an exciting journey to raise our Information Management (IM) maturity. Our approach is twofold: we look externally at what others in the industry are doing, and we also focus internally on our own progress.

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Capture and Imaging  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

The Power of Standardization: Why It Matters in Imaging Technology

As the Chairman of the TWAIN Working Group Board of Directors and the portfolio marketing manager with Kodak Alaris, I've seen firsthand how standardization can revolutionize an industry. In this post, I want to share why standardization, particularly in imaging technology, is crucial for businesses and consumers alike.

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