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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)  |  Healthcare

Medical Records: Getting Smarter but Not Intelligent

Unfortunately, I’ve had a few recent encounters with our healthcare system. As you would expect, I paid attention to the recordkeeping process. The spectrum ranged from paper to born-digital and has me thinking about my health records in a new way.

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Certified Information Professional (CIP)

In Pursuit of the CIP: Why Did I Wait So Long?

I have a confession to make: I was a CIP skeptic. That’s right; I often found myself questioning whether the body of knowledge CIP represents -- even in its redesigned form -- was truly relevant for today’s information stewards in leading the digital transformation charge. I wondered whether business strategists who comprise the fastest growing AIIM membership sector would find applicability therein? Or, was CIP simply a capstone on a lifelong career for those core (and fewer) content “specialists”?

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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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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Top 10 Information Management Articles on the AIIM Blog in June

We designed the AIIM Blog as way to help content and information professionals keep their finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices. Generally, the summer months tend to slow down for businesses. But, this June was a busy month to say the least. From the report death of ECM, to the looming launch of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - we covered it all. Below I've compiled our top ten most popular blogs from June. Check them out...

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Capture and Imaging  |  Process Improvement

Scan to Email Is Not the Right Way to Digitize Your Business

An increasing number of organizations are digitizing their business processes to improve productivity and reduce costs and the risk of human error. Often organizations start by scanning to email where a person scans a document that is sent into their personal email inbox and is then manually delivered to the final destination. This is extremely bad for businesses, and replacing scan to email should be a key part of any organization’s digitization strategy.

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Content Migration  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

A Trip to the Computer Museum

Never have the risks of disruption – and the rewards of nimbleness and agility and creativity -- been higher. SaaS solutions to enterprise problems – with far fewer aches and pains to business types -- have swept through corporate America. For years, Boomers had the benefit of numbers – after all, they still represented the majority of the workforce and dominated the C-Level within organizations. By 2020, those pesky Gen X, Y, and Z folks will be 80% of the workforce. The Boomers – and the institutional knowledge they have – will largely be gone.

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GDPR  |  Information Security  |  Privacy

Balancing Privacy Rights with Social Utility in the Age of the Internet of Things

Resistance is futile. A recent Gartner report estimates that by 2020 the number of connected devices such as sensors and wearables will reach 21 billion, up from 6.4 billion in 2016. Such an unprecedented level of connectedness is expected to transform virtually every facet of our lives, largely in beneficial ways.

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