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When I'm faced with an overwhelming project, I like to break it up into smaller, easier to handle bits. Handling the easiest parts first allows you to make quick wins and fast gains. Removing paper from the business is often one of these overwhelming projects. To help you break it down into some small bites, we've pulled out where you can focus your paper reduction efforts for some quick wins to get you started. Here's a look at what the research tells us are the best processes to focus on first:
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As information professionals involved in the eDiscovery process, you are required to work with legal counsel and produce electronic information for use in civil litigation. A major part of this process is searching for and finding all relevant documents, and content related to the case. The operative word here being finding, and that includes audio files, video, files and even emails. So where do you begin your search and where do you look to find it all? What process is in place and what steps will you take to ensure you have found everything? Do you search your network servers, individual PCs, Smartphones, PDAs and removable storage devices like thumb drives or is it all of the above?
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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.
Business Process Management (BPM) | Paperless Office
For years, AIIM has advocated the reduction of paper in business. Reducing paper is a good way to save office space and improve records retrieval. But, in the past 10 years, the focus has shifted to removing paper from business processes in order to improve productivity, accessibility, and compliance.
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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
AIIM's online community always has a lot of great discussion going on. On the community site, users of all levels can connect, learn, and share. It's a great place to post an opinion or ask a question. Below, I've compiled some of my favorite recent posts from Intelligent Information Professionals. These topics range from Big Data, to enterprise file sync and share, to change management, and more. Enjoy! Records and Information Management in Big Data By Dennis Kempner Organizations, both large and small, are burdened with a high volume of data to store. In order to efficiently run a company, important data must be accessible, manageable, and easily retrievable. The phrase “Big Data” refers to information and data that is too large for companies to manage and process on their own. Big Data is valuable for companies in that it can help to determine and fulfill customer needs, thereby maximizing a company’s operational efficiencies. Companies with a lot of data need a team of professionals to manage this information. One effective solution to manage big data is Records and Information Management (RIM). Full article HERE - Records and Information Management in Big Data
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“Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.” (Atul Butte, Stanford) "Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine” (Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner) “War is 90% information.” (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within 18 months or risk being left in the dust.” (Ginni Rometty, CEO, IBM) “Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” (Geoffrey Moore, author and consultant) “The world is one big data problem.” (Andrew McAfee) “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding.” (Hal Varian, chief economist at Google) “The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.” (Sherlock Holmes, fictional detective) "The most valuable commodity I know of is information." (Gordon Gekko, Wall Street) "If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have our opinions, let’s go with mine." (Jim Barksdale, former Netscape CEO) “Processed data is information. Processed information is knowledge, Processed knowledge is Wisdom.” (Ankala V. Subbarao)
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Most enterprises still try to use paper-based principles to manage the digital era. This won’t work with the growing volume, variety, and velocity of information. 80% of information is unstructured, and we need to automate how important content is identified, captured, analyzed, and governed. Only then can we turn information chaos into opportunities.
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