The AIIM Blog

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

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Cloud  |  Collaboration  |  Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS)

5 Ways to Stay in Control of Content Sharing

You know your employees are sharing information with others inside and outside the walls of your organization. But how much of that sharing do you actually control? Are you aware of how often employees are sharing confidential and business-critical information? Do you know who is sharing it?

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Collaboration  |  Digital Transformation  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

The #AIIM15 Digital Transformation Hot Seat: Security in a World of Anywhere, Anytime Access

As we start to think about #AIIM15, I thought I would ask a number of our sponsors a few identical questions in order to get an understanding of how they see the future of our industry -- and let those of you attending start to think about your own questions to ask them in San Diego. Here are the three questions I'll ask: What are the three biggest challenges you see your customers facing while trying to “Embrace the Chaos”? What do you see as the three most important trends related to Information Management facing organizations over the next 18-24 months? What will be different in our industry two years from now? What are the three most important things attendees should know about your company?

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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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Collaboration

4 Reasons for Replacing Email with New and Better Collaboration Tools

The exponential growth of information means exponential growth of email. If you today receive 100 new emails per day, will this then become 1,000 new emails per day in 2020? Whatever the number is, it’s time to rethink the role of email within your organization.

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Collaboration

23 Things You Need to Know about Collaboration

These 23 “things you need to know” are drawn from a survey of 464 information professionals conducted earlier this year. Survey respondents represent organizations of all sizes. Larger organizations over 5,000 employees represent 36%, with mid-sized organizations of 500 to 5,000 employees at 29%. Small-to-mid sized organizations with 10 to 500 employees constitute 35%. 73% of the participants were from North America, and 17% from Europe. [Note: My bad on the original post with 27 instead of 23 things; clearly, I was not cut out to be an accountant.]

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Collaboration

8 Ways to Make Collaboration Tools More than a Virtual Water Cooler

Yahoo, Best Buy, and other innovation-hungry businesses are rethinking the value of remote work in their organizations. But everyone can’t work face-to-face all the time; social collaboration platforms are being called upon by a growing number of organizations to fill this gap. But there’s a difference between having social tools in place and actually using them to accelerate innovation and change within an organization. Companies need to get their teams to move beyond “Facebook” social connections and get down to business with these investments.

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Collaboration

5 Myths about Collaboration

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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