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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Industry analysts quote the growth of unstructured content at around 40% a year. A big contributor to content growth is Redundant, Obsolete and Trivial (ROT) files. Still, there are many misconceptions about the concept of ROT.
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Myth #1. Communication is simple. Reality -- We may hope, “It will help management get their message out. The executives can clarify their mission. The managers can state the teams’ goals. Issues can be resolved quickly and clearly.” Collaboration can’t change the fact that, most often, it's impossible or even illegal to say anything of substance down the chain of command except in an office with the door closed. Long term success requires continuous improvement, which requires change. Change always causes pain. Pain cannot be allowed to be expressed except in private.
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Document Management | Paperless Office
Isn't it ironic that with advancing technology, we are quick to spend on 'cool' gadgets for personal use though they do not yield any financial return in most cases, but we are reluctant to invest in technology that is proven to yield a return in the short-to-medium term? This also holds true when it comes to moving a business to the paperless model. Let us look at five myths about paperless offices that prevent organizations from adopting electronic document management, and consequently miss out on the benefits that such technology brings.
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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
Myth #1.We'll all work fewer hours in the 21st century. Reality -- In the 1970s and 1980s, many writers -- such as Alvin Toffler in “Future Shock” -- mused that the increasing computing capability available to business and government was going to greatly reduce the work required to run our economy and society. We were told that in the twenty-first century, our biggest challenge would be to decide what to do with all our leisure time!
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
A few of us were playing around the other night with a new conceptual framework for talking about the lifecycle of ECM. I've attached our back of the napkin thoughts, along with a bit of explanation for the layers. We'd be interested to learn what you think.
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Sharepoint and Office 365 | Taxonomy
Many organizations are finding that leveraging the full suite of capabilities SharePoint often requires the introduction of a new requirement – that of dealing with, managing, and exploiting taxonomies. Of course, taxonomies are not new, but there is some confusion about where managed metadata services and the term store end and true taxonomy management begins. There are also some misconceptions about the process of deriving and applying taxonomies in SharePoint. The following are five areas of confusion that we have seen in our engagements and research.
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