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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

InfoChaos Perspectives: Getting Focused on the Content Silo Problem

A video session from The AIIM Conference, Moving from Content Silos to True Enterprise Services: TD Bank's Formula for Success.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Tales of InfoChaos – True Confessions of an Information Hoarder

Simply put, we aren’t managing content; we are hoarding stuff. Stuff we think might have value, stuff we think we have to keep, and stuff we simply lost track of so long ago that we no longer know what it is. I have stuff like this in my inbox; you may have some of this stuff too. If you don’t, you don’t have to look very hard to find it. Maybe it’s in a shared drive; maybe it’s on your C: drive; maybe it’s still in a file cabinet; and maybe it’s already made its way into SharePoint.

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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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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

The Future of Content Management: Emergence of the Extreme Buyer

In our first post on the future of content management - Defining the Future of Content Management: Evolution of an Industry - we talked about the changes that have swept through the content "space" (going all the way back to microfilm), the acceleration of those changes over the past few years, and voiced the opinion that the "ECM" term has started to feel a bit tired.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Defining the Future of Content Management: Evolution of an Industry

We recently convened an AIIM Board Task Force to think about the evolution of content management, and more specifically, how we define and talk about this industry and AIIM’s role in it.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

A History of Content Management in Two Humps

Many of you know that I really like the following diagram by Geoffrey Moore as a depiction of the changes that are going on within the content management space.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

How Do You Know Whether a Content Management Consultant Is Any Good?

Projects in the content management space -- which often occur at the complex and volatile intersection of content and process -- can often be challenging. Organizations are often at a loss to figure out where to start and turn to consultants and SIs to help plot a course.

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