The AIIM Blog - Overcoming Information Chaos (144)

Why Is This Content Management Thing So Difficult?

By: John Mancini April 23rd, 2014

As I approach my 18th anniversary at AIIM -- Yikes! -- I find myself in a bit of an introspective mood about our collective effectiveness. Specifically, "Why is this content management thing so difficult?" On the one hand, there is a lot of both quantitative and anecdotal evidence of the transformative impact of content technologies. Almost universally, end-user organizations that I ask, "Would you go back to the way you did things before?" respond with a definite "No way." On the other hand, studies conducted by Doculabs and others paint a somewhat checkered history for an uncomfortably high percentage of projects – projects that either went over budget, or over time, or that achieved adoption rates that were dismally lower than the initial projections. So how can we improve this?

Finding the Opportunity in Information Chaos

By: John Mancini April 7th, 2014

Information is the lifeblood of your business. It's also everywhere; on mobile devices, laptops, in apps and the cloud. Sometimes this information is well managed, but for many, information is everywhere and barely controlled. This problem – and opportunity – will only get worse (and better).

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Mancini’s Law and the Impact of InfoChaos

By: John Mancini April 4th, 2014

We had a terrific time at The AIIM Conference 2014 -- such awesome attendees and sponsors. We are grateful for the trust they all put in us to take 3 days out of their schedule and share with us and with each other - more on that in my next post.