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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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Compliance  |  GDPR  |  Privacy

What Are You Doing about GDPR? 3 Keys to Compliance

May 2018 is just around the corner, and there is a mad scramble to figure out what to do about GDPR. Here are the three Keys to Your GDPR Compliance Strategy.

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Content Services  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

ECM – Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Gartner: “ECM is now dead (kaput, finite, an ex-market name), at least in how Gartner defines the market. It’s been replaced by the term Content Services.” What is happening in the enterprise IT space – and how is it impacting content management? Consider the following emerging broad trends -- trends that will mold and shape the world of content management in both the short and long-term create a need for a broader and more encompassing industry description than “ECM.”

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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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Automation

How I Learned to Love the Robot: Getting Started with Document Automation

Management had a chat and the robots start next week: Do you… Fortify the office to defend against the Robot Uprising–You won’t go down without a fight, right? Repress your inner cave-dweller, and find a way to leverage this new tool to more effectively manage digital documents throughout their lifecycle and delegate manual tasks? If you chose A: Best of luck! If you chose B: You are lightyears ahead of the people choosing A— feel good about that. You are also absolutely right:

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Certified Information Professional (CIP)

Canon Norway Standardizes on CIP

Over the past decade, there has been a “perfect storm” of change driven by consumerization, cloud, mobile, and the Internet of Things. It has changed how enterprise information and IT are viewed and changed the kinds of skills that are needed to adapt to these disruptions. The value-add for information technology in organizations is rapidly shifting from the technology per se to the stewardship, optimization, and application of the information assets themselves.

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Business Process Management (BPM)  |  Logistics

The Last Mile Is an Overlooked Process 'Moment of Truth'

A “moment of truth” is a deciding instant that determines whether something will succeed. According to Wikipedia, “Transporting goods via freight rail networks and container ships is often the most efficient and cost-effective manner of shipping. However, when goods arrive at a high-capacity freight station or port, they must then be transported to their final destination. This last leg of the supply chain is often less efficient, comprising up to 28% of the total cost to move goods. This has become known as the last mile problem."

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Email Management  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

No Matter How Much We Wish It Was Not So, a Lot of Work Is Still Done in an Email Client

According to Radicati, the average worker sends or receives 122 emails per day. The Washington Post notes, “Any cubicle drone with a corporate email address knows this well already, of course, but a new report from Adobe describes the problem with some pretty startling numbers. According to its data, which is sourced from a self-reported survey of more than 1,000 white-collar workers in the country, we spend an average of 4.1 hours checking our work email each day. That’s 20.5 hours each week, more than 1,000 hours each year, more than 47,000 hours over a career.”

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