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Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.

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Electronic Records Management (ERM)  |  Information Governance  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

More Articles about Information Management than Any Sane Person Should Write

Over the last year or so, I've authored over 100 eBooks, guest articles, and tip sheets - 107 of them to be exact. I've compiled them all here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

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Digital Transformation  |  Process Improvement

Digital Transformation: Adapt Your Business Environment

“Digital Transformation is a game-changer,” and “leaders embrace digital transformation”—but is it really a game-changer, and have we actually embraced it?

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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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Content Services

How the Move to Content Services Makes CX More Challenging

At the core, a true understanding of customer experience means looking at customer journeys from the “inside-out” -- through the eyes of the customer. Of course, customers do not always need to be the final “end” customer. Customers that rely on the careful integration and orchestration of content services components also include business partners and employees.

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Accounting and Finance  |  Digital Preservation  |  Insurance

Digital Preservation – High Stakes for Finance and Insurance Companies

In Digital Preservation -- Is your current approach to long-term digital information failing the business? I wrote that our two key information management objectives — utilization of information and preservation of it — got separated along the digital journey. In the process, long-term preservation of digital information took a backseat to the short-term utilization and optimization of this information in business processes. In addition, many organizations lost track of the key differences between back-up, archiving, and true long-term preservation.

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Compliance  |  Healthcare  |  Information Security

Information Security and Compliance through the Prism of Healthcare and Retail

Organizations must focus strategically on how to manage digital content and understand that: 1) end-users are consuming technology differently; 2) consumer devices are being increasingly used as “on-ramps” to digital workflows; and 3) how you secure the scan and capture process becomes increasingly important.

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AIIM Conference  |  Retention

How We Learned to Love Event-Based Retention

Allow me to introduce you to Wendy McLain, Manager of Enterprise Content & Records Management at Valero. Valero is a publicly-traded international oil and gas company, with revenue in the billions of dollars. Wendy will be presenting at The AIIM Conference 2018. Her session is called "How We Learned to Love Event-Based Retention: A Valero Energy Case Study in Records Management." I thought this would be a great time to catch up with Wendy and ask her some questions.

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