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Digital Transformation  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

6 Things You Need to Know about Emerging Markets and Information Management

Digital disruption is moving quickly past the surface level of disruption as technology innovation in the consumer realm gets incorporated into the very fabric of how business is done, creating radical disruption along the way. All of this ultimately manifests itself in international trade, financial, and data flows and the impact these on the individual knowledge skills that workers need to have to survive and the organizational competencies in information management that companies and governments require to continue to be relevant and competitive.

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Document Management  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

7 Tips to Make Information Chaos Worse in Your Organization

The possibilities for more information chaos surround us. Content is proliferating at geometric rates, and organizations and the people who work in them are struggling with massive amounts of information overload. The sheer volume of content and data entering our organizations is growing in complexity, volume, and variety.

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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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Digital Transformation

Digital Disruption and the Structure of Emerging Markets

Brexit, presidential campaign follies, the Olympics and disruption déjà vu. I was in London during the Brexit debates and heard a lot of "interesting" things about trade during those debates. Coming home, I and the rest of the world have obviously witnessed a lot of irrational pontifications in the context of our own presidential election about trade and jobs and disruption.

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Paperless Office

8 Reminders About Why World Paper Free Day Matters

Just a reminder, that World Paper Free Day is November 4th! That means it's just around the corner! Until then, here are eight paper-free nuggets to get the juices flowing from our latest research, Paper-Free Progress: Measuring Outcomes.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Content Management – Why Can’t We Stop Talking about Technology?

For many years, I’ve watched people in organizations that I KNOW could benefit from content technologies politely listen to sales presentations, nod their heads, and then back away from a decision. I find this “reluctance to commit” mysterious because most of the people that I’ve spoken with who have automated a previously paper-driven process swear by the results and wouldn’t return to life pre-content management for anything.

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Sharepoint and Office 365

7 Tips to Unstick Your SharePoint Implementation

Many organizations continue to find themselves in a state of struggle when implementing SharePoint. However, all indications suggest that initially, it is not the fault of the technology, but the failure of the organization to properly address information governance prior to implementing the technology. SharePoint will not automatically organize information in ways that meet compliance requirements, as it is not and cannot be aware of the requirements. It is the human element of a SharePoint environment that must know and understand the rules, set up the framework for the organization, and then align SharePoint to support those requirements and policies.

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