The AIIM Blog

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

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Enterprise Search  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Information Overload: It Affects MACHINES as Well as People

The wealth of unstructured text contained in most organizations offers the potential for both overwhelming levels of information overload and fascinating levels of information discovery and new knowledge construction. This will likely require changes in the information literacy and sensemaking skills of knowledge workers in the workplace of the future.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)  |  Manufacturing

Linking the Physical and Digital Worlds – A Growing Information Management Challenge

One of the core issues for manufacturing companies – or for that matter, any physical asset-intensive industry -- is managing the technical information associated with the vast array of physical equipment that is needed to make the business run. It is here that the physical world (which drives the Internet of Things) truly connects with the digital world (information and content assets).

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

6 Things You Need to Know about Emerging Markets and Information Management

Digital disruption is moving quickly past the surface level of disruption as technology innovation in the consumer realm gets incorporated into the very fabric of how business is done, creating radical disruption along the way. All of this ultimately manifests itself in international trade, financial, and data flows and the impact these on the individual knowledge skills that workers need to have to survive and the organizational competencies in information management that companies and governments require to continue to be relevant and competitive.

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

7 Tips to Make Information Chaos Worse in Your Organization

The possibilities for more information chaos surround us. Content is proliferating at geometric rates, and organizations and the people who work in them are struggling with massive amounts of information overload. The sheer volume of content and data entering our organizations is growing in complexity, volume, and variety.

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

Content Management – Why Can’t We Stop Talking about Technology?

For many years, I’ve watched people in organizations that I KNOW could benefit from content technologies politely listen to sales presentations, nod their heads, and then back away from a decision. I find this “reluctance to commit” mysterious because most of the people that I’ve spoken with who have automated a previously paper-driven process swear by the results and wouldn’t return to life pre-content management for anything.

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Certified Information Professional (CIP)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Defining the Information Professional of the Future

In the mainstream, the focus is still on on-premise applications built on and for the PC. The core skills that are valued in the mainstream are focused on building and developing systems. At the edge, the focus shifts to the cloud, mobile technologies become the Lego building blocks of systems, and the skill sets that are valued within our IT staffs shift from building and developing to configuring and connecting.

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