The AIIM Blog - Overcoming Information Chaos

How Are You Preparing for the Changes in Content Management?

Written by John Mancini | Jun 28, 2015 9:21:00 AM

Looking back over the past 15 years since its inception, what ECM means within our industry has radically changed. Today we know that successful ECM implementation is less about technology and more about the convergence of people and processes with technological tools.

Think about how many "flavors" there currently are of ECM:

In this complicated environment, here a some of the challenges people have in thinking about their ECM projects:

Why ECM Training Now?

The industry needs leaders to take ECM into the future. The AIIM community rightly fulfills that role. We are both the ECM legacy and luminaries. If you don't, who will? AIIM has therefore updated its ECM training course to cover new best practices and technologies.

What business problems does the training solve?

  • Get new approaches for managing the growing volume, velocity, and variety of content
  • Identify the best ways to capture, analyze, engage, automate, and govern corporate documents, records, and email
  • Get ideas for how to best deal with BYOD and BYOA (Bring Your Own App)
  • Identify how to best connect people, information, and knowledge
  • Determine the role of ECM systems vs. SharePoint and Office 365
  • Plan how to make compliance, security, and privacy inherent and transparent to the knowledge worker 
  • Learn how to develop necessary content taxonomies, metadata, and security models

98% of attendees found the course content to be excellent, good, or satisfactory. 89% of attendees became more effective at identifying and engaging corporate stakeholders, and 26% of attendees get promoted, get a higher salary/bonus, get a new job, or land new customers as a result of taking the course. You can also earn an AIIM designation that demonstrators your expertise and experience.

What does the course cover?

  1. How to Get Started with ECM
  2. How to Capture Enterprise Content
  3. How to Improve Collaboration on Enterprise Content
  4. How to Create and Manage Metadata
  5. How to Organize Enterprise Content
  6. How to Improve Access to Enterprise Content
  7. How to Improve Content-Centric Processes Using Workflow and BPM
  8. How to Secure Enterprise Content
  9. How to Manage Enterprise Content throughout the Content Lifecycle
  10. How to Ensure Digital Preservation

Learn more about AIIM's Enterprise Content Management training course.