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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
As many of you know, well-known futurist Thornton May (and a former AIIM Board Chair) is one of the keynote speakers at The AIIM Conference 2014 (April 1-4, in Orlando). Thornton is one of those keynote speakers you won’t forget – suffice it to say, he is not a shy person! I usually start my research for introductions at Conferences not by looking at all the boring CV/Resume data points about schools and jobs, but rather by looking at things a speaker has actually said and whether these things jar my conventional assumptions. With Thornton, there is no shortage of great quotes.
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Electronic Records Management (ERM) | Information Governance
Defensible disposition addresses the problem of over-retention -- organizations have been over-retaining electronic information and failing to dispose of it in a legally defensible manner when business and law will allow. The best way to address this monster problem is to break it into more tractable sub-problems: day-forward information disposition and historical informational disposition. I won’t go into a day-forward information disposition here, because it is an easier problem to solve. Let’s stipulate that it’s taken care of and focus on historical information disposition.
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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.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Simply put, we aren’t managing content; we are hoarding stuff. Stuff we think might have value, stuff we think we have to keep, and stuff we simply lost track of so long ago that we no longer know what it is. I have stuff like this in my inbox; you may have some of this stuff too. If you don’t, you don’t have to look very hard to find it. Maybe it’s in a shared drive; maybe it’s on your C: drive; maybe it’s still in a file cabinet; and maybe it’s already made its way into SharePoint.
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Technology changes what is possible. Every “age” has a feel, a zeitgeist. That zeitgeist is very much a function of the fact that every age has a defining technology. The age we are just now entering has four defining technologies – Social, Mobile, Analytics, & Cloud – the SMAC stack. The economics and ergonomics of experimentation have changed. It has never been easier – or more profitable – to do new things. To do new things require new modes of thought. That is why I advocate a “cognitive reboot.”
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Change Management | Information Governance
Follow along with this Slideshare presentation to learn how to sell Information Governance to executives. This presentation will help you establish an information accountability framework that reduces costs, manages risk, and optimizes value. You’ll learn how to: Get executive sponsorship Establish an Information Governance Program Identify necessary components, technologies, and instruments Assess the impact of mobile, social, cloud, and big data analytics Conduct a risk assessment and mitigation Automate records retention and disposition Identify necessary roles and responsibilities Measure for success *Presentation via Atle Skjekkeland. Feel free to use and reuse and repost and embed.
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Fighting the paper invasion is a constant battle for many organizations. Scanning paper records to keep down the sprawl of file cabinets and archive shelves has been common practice for many years. But, what about the hundreds of thousands of external paper documents that pour through the door every day and bog down our active business processes? They create more problems than paper records – slowing down response, restricting access, and making additional demands for re-keying, copying, and filing. Yet, the progress being made towards paper-free processes is very slow. Most organizations have yet to address more than 5% of the possible processes that could be given the flexibility, visibility, and efficiency that are characteristic of electronic workflows. In this research study, we look at the reasons for this poor progress, measure the adoption of digital mailrooms, chart the progress of mobile capture, and show which processes are the most effective for paper-free working. Below are the key findings from this research project - Winning the Paper Wars
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