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Change Management  |  Information Governance

How Do I Sell Information Governance to Executives?

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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Paperless Office

12 Things You Need to Know about Going Paper-Free

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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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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AIIM Community

An Update on Upland's Acquisition of FileBound

I was recently speaking to Jon Eilers, SVP of Business Development at FileBound Software about the recent acquisition of FileBound by Upland Software (formerly PowerSteering Software) and its implications for the channel. Here's what he told me.

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Information Governance

Why Can't Document Auto-Classification Be as Much Fun as Google Image Recognition?

A recent AIIM Industry Watch, Information Governance - records, risks and retention in the litigation age, highlighted some of the challenges associated with managing the accumulation of information at increasingly exponential rates.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

The Future of Content Management: Emergence of the Extreme Buyer

In our first post on the future of content management - Defining the Future of Content Management: Evolution of an Industry - we talked about the changes that have swept through the content "space" (going all the way back to microfilm), the acceleration of those changes over the past few years, and voiced the opinion that the "ECM" term has started to feel a bit tired.

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

Defining the Future of Content Management: Evolution of an Industry

We recently convened an AIIM Board Task Force to think about the evolution of content management, and more specifically, how we define and talk about this industry and AIIM’s role in it.

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