The AIIM Blog

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

John Mancini

John Mancini is the President of Content Results, LLC and the Past President of AIIM. He is a well-known author, speaker, and advisor on information management, digital transformation and intelligent automation. John is a frequent keynote speaker and author of more than 30 eBooks on a variety of topics. He can be found on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook as jmancini77. Recent keynote topics include: The Stairway to Digital Transformation Navigating Disruptive Waters — 4 Things You Need to Know to Build Your Digital Transformation Strategy Getting Ahead of the Digital Transformation Curve Viewing Information Management Through a New Lens Digital Disruption: 6 Strategies to Avoid Being “Blockbustered” Specialties: Keynote speaker and writer on AI, RPA, intelligent Information Management, Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation. Consensus-building with Boards to create strategic focus, action, and accountability. Extensive public speaking and public relations work Conversant and experienced in major technology issues and trends. Expert on inbound and content marketing, particularly in an association environment and on the Hubspot platform. John is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of William and Mary, and holds an M.A. in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Blog Feature

Electronic Records Management (ERM)  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Sharepoint and Office 365

Top 10 AIIM Expert Bloggers for July – ECM, ERM, SharePoint

The AIIM Community offers a space for members of our community to share the information management best practices they've learned from experience on the job. These blog articles provide valuable insights. I was looking through the most popular blog posts for July and thought I would share my top ten here. The rules for qualifying: If you had more than one post in the top 10, I only took the top one. I only counted posts that were done in 2012. So congratulations to all of the following bloggers (and thanks for being involved in AIIM). And the envelope, please....

Read More

Blog Feature

Capture and Imaging

The Brave New World of Scanning and Capture – Really?

I recently purchased a new car from one of the largest car dealers in the country (privately owned, $55 million in annual revenues). Given that I am notoriously cheap about cars, it was a very inexpensive car, and we paid cash. After negotiating the deal, we went to the back room where we signed all of the documentation. We signed the following forms:

Read More

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.

Blog Feature

Sharepoint and Office 365

What CEOs Should Know about Microsoft SharePoint

We just published a new Industry Watch Report titled, “The SharePoint Puzzle – Adding the missing pieces.” The study, based on the responses from 551 organizations, identified a lack of expertise, lack of strategic plans, and resistance from users as the top three most prevalent business issues associated with SharePoint. But despite these concerns, most organizations are planning to increase or maintain the level of SharePoint spend on internal development, integration to other repositories, training, add-ons, hardware, services and licenses over the next 12 months.

Read More

Blog Feature

Information Governance

More than You Ever Wanted to Know about Information Governance

Gartner defines information governance as: "the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to ensure appropriate behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archiving and deletion of information. It includes the processes, roles and policies, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals." In a nutshell, information can be one of our greatest assets - the fuel that drives our business and its processes. But, it can also be a liability. Information Governance takes into account that in today’s business environment, mere management is not enough. Regulatory compliance and legal requirements – combined with the enormous growth of information has created the need to go beyond management and implement information governance. There are a host of governance categories that need to be addressed as you build your information management strategy. Below, we'll cover the key considerations for some of the top areas in need of governance: Content Governance Classification Governance Functional Governance Security Governance Retention Governance

Read More

Blog Feature

Information Governance  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Extreme Information, Surviving a Derecho, and Cleaning Out My Mother-in-Law’s House

Those of you who have been following this blog for some time know of my tendency to "find" information management "lessons" in everyday experiences (witness, for example, my post on Walgreens as a Process Revolutionary). Well, I've got to tell you, the past few days have been loaded with lessons on the challenges we face in the Era of Extreme Information.

Read More

Blog Feature

Sharepoint and Office 365

5 Myths about SharePoint Content Protection

A CIO recently said to me, “SharePoint? What a security nightmare…”At first, I was taken aback – SharePoint can be a great tool for CIO’s looking to protect content. But having worked with SharePoint content for years, I know the protections that are in place automatically – and the ones that fit into the current workflow– to help organizations embrace secure collaboration.

Read More