The AIIM Blog
Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.
Digital Transformation | Paperless Office
Simplicity is an undervalued commodity of modern business, and as seen through efforts to purge paper processes, simplicity has the potential to add real value to many organizations. Efforts to drive out paper are an essential foundation to creating a more simplified, user-friendly, and changeable enterprise, but these efforts must be supported by business technology, process, and leadership, which advocate the same. Most importantly, our mindset needs to change. Simplicity is often synonymous with lesser value. Often complex functionality is what attracts senior management interest and investment dollars to the cause; complex solutions take space at the head of board meetings, while simple solutions often only find room at the kids' table.
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The song of being paper-free has been sung since the early days of document imaging. As technologies have advanced and business organizations have come to realize the negative impact paper has on operational processes, getting rid of paper is fast becoming a possibility And while it may not be enterprise level, there are definite signs that departmentally, as seen in this report highlighting changes in HR and AP, businesses are making the transition to a paperfree business model.
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Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS)
Let's take a look at the policy environment (or lack thereof) that surrounds how most organizations use sync and share technologies. File sync and share are on the rise, yet there is still a cultural challenge and user reluctance slowing organizations from moving in this direction. While there are proven technologies available, 29% of our respondents cite concerns over security and unauthorized access to their information as a big challenge in implementing a file sync and share solution. For 19%, the challenge they face is a lack of understanding the full benefits file sync and share can bring to their organization, and for 20%, it is the cultural challenge related to change management, combining a lack of management support (12%), and user reluctance (8%).
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Compliance | Information Security | Privacy
The disclosures this week from Yahoo, about government access to private emails, have fueled another round of discussions about the role of privacy and security in an internet/social age. One of the issues that I think is not fully understood about this issue – especially in the U.S. – is the fundamentally different perspectives about privacy that exist in Europe, and how those differences then manifest themselves into policy.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Information management is boldly on the horizon. Everyone from C-level thought leaders to end users are dreaming up enterprise content management possibilities and asking an important question: how can my organization go beyond its current ECM state?
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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
It seems obvious: In an age of Digital Transformation, the information assets of an organization are increasingly THE defining source of organizational value.
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