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Analytics  |  Big Data

9 Ideas on How to Get Serious about BigData and Content Analytics

How do we get any business insight out of all the information we are gathering? Here's an action plan:

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Social Media

6 Tips on How to Use Content to Better Engage Customers, Employees, and Partners

How can you use content to better engage customers, employees, and partners? Here's an action plan:

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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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Business Process Management (BPM)

10 Tips for Transforming Your Content-Intensive Business Processes

How do you transform your content-intensive business processes? Here's a 10-point action list:

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Information Governance

A 10-Point Governance Action Plan to Manage Information Risk

How can you manage the RISK of growing volumes of content? Here's a 10-point action plan:

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

What’s Next for Content Management?

In a number of previous posts -- but most particularly the two below -- I've begun to unpack some thoughts about the impact of consumerization, mobile and cloud, and changing patterns of work on how we think about enterprise IT systems. In this one, I thought I would get a bit more focused on the impact on the content management space. I would welcome thoughts and feedback.

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Information Governance

Survey: Over-Preservation Threatens Effective Information Governance

AIIM recently collaborated with Cohasset Associates and ARMA in the eighth biennial survey on the evolution of Information Governance (over 1,300 participants). Over a series of articles, I'm covering the major highlights -- and the implications for organizations as they continue to address the tension between Information Opportunity and Information Chaos. The survey reports: Legal Hold processes are more commonplace, but over-preservation is an immense challenge to the implementation of effective information lifecycle controls, thereby contributing to future risk and complexity. Faced with the fear of spoliation charges during litigation, the traditional risk-averse approach to preservation was to keep everything. The danger of this approach is that routine disposal can come to a screeching halt. This shutdown results in increased costs of storage, inefficiency, and litigation complexities.

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