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No professional is an island. We are always engaged in some form of collaboration, whether we are working with colleagues, customers, or partners. As AIIM members know, one of the most visible ways that we collaborate is on documents. We all work together to create budgets, improve presentations, and build sales proposals.
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So, you’ve just deployed your brand-new collaboration app and you’re looking forward to using it to improve your efficiency and productivity as you work with your colleagues on different projects. But hold on! How you use the application dictates your likelihood of success. You have to be aware that no matter how many features collaboration products possess (e.g., blogs, wikis, document libraries, etc.) they are only useful when properly adopted by the enterprise. This article outlines eight tactics that can drastically improve your overall productivity when using collaborative apps.
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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.
Collaboration | Electronic Records Management (ERM)
If you’re like most companies these days, you’re in the midst of deploying collaboration tools, such as SharePoint, in an attempt to meet users demands for more open communications. At the same time, you’re probably maintaining an array of legacy records management systems, deployed a decade or more ago, which are used to manage a specific subset of data in a very specific way. If you haven’t already noticed, these systems are like oil and water.
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Cloud | Collaboration | Mobile
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2009 was the year for social services taking off for consumers. 2010 seems like the year where momentum is rampantly building for social services and software used in business.
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It used to be that a company-wide collaboration strategy was a nice-to-have. No more. Now, it’s a strategic necessity. Even in the current economic climate, 37 percent of organizations surveyed in Forrester's Q4 2008 enterprise and SMB software survey consider implementing a collaboration strategy important in 2009. What’s driving the collaboration wave? Forrester sees two broad trends driving this: there is a critical need to drive information worker efficiency and to manage the unstructured content artifacts they produce and, while the value of improved collaboration is clear, the path to success has become more complex. Collaboration strategies today need to encompass a broad array of organizational and technical criteria. The potential benefits can be substantial, and the risk associated with poor management of collaborative content and communication artifacts can be costly.
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