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Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.
Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
As many readers know, about two years ago a Task Force of AIIM members worked with Geoffrey Moore (author of Crossing the Chasm, among many titles) to build out a "future history" of the content industry. The intention was to think about how enterprise information technology was changing in the wake of the influx of consumer technologies.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Projects in the content management space -- which often occur at the complex and volatile intersection of content and process -- can often be challenging. Organizations are often at a loss to figure out where to start and turn to consultants and SIs to help plot a course.
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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.
Electronic Records Management (ERM) | Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Sharepoint and Office 365
The AIIM Community offers a space for members of our community to share the information management best practices they've learned from experience on the job. These blog articles provide valuable insights. I was looking through the most popular blog posts for July and thought I would share my top ten here. The rules for qualifying: If you had more than one post in the top 10, I only took the top one. I only counted posts that were done in 2012. So congratulations to all of the following bloggers (and thanks for being involved in AIIM). And the envelope, please....
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I recently purchased a new car from one of the largest car dealers in the country (privately owned, $55 million in annual revenues). Given that I am notoriously cheap about cars, it was a very inexpensive car, and we paid cash. After negotiating the deal, we went to the back room where we signed all of the documentation. We signed the following forms:
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We just published a new Industry Watch Report titled, “The SharePoint Puzzle – Adding the missing pieces.” The study, based on the responses from 551 organizations, identified a lack of expertise, lack of strategic plans, and resistance from users as the top three most prevalent business issues associated with SharePoint. But despite these concerns, most organizations are planning to increase or maintain the level of SharePoint spend on internal development, integration to other repositories, training, add-ons, hardware, services and licenses over the next 12 months.
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Gartner defines information governance as: "the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to ensure appropriate behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archiving and deletion of information. It includes the processes, roles and policies, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals." In a nutshell, information can be one of our greatest assets - the fuel that drives our business and its processes. But, it can also be a liability. Information Governance takes into account that in today’s business environment, mere management is not enough. Regulatory compliance and legal requirements – combined with the enormous growth of information has created the need to go beyond management and implement information governance. There are a host of governance categories that need to be addressed as you build your information management strategy. Below, we'll cover the key considerations for some of the top areas in need of governance: Content Governance Classification Governance Functional Governance Security Governance Retention Governance
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