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

How to Future Proof Your Information Management Career

Technology has always been fast-moving, but it seems that there is a “perfect storm” of change right now. Cloud, mobile, social and big data are forces that create dramatic opportunities for improved business process, better employee collaboration and closer customer engagement. Meanwhile, content overload, security, litigation and compliance create huge potential risks for most organizations.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

2013 Predictions – Systems of Record and Systems of Engagement – What Comes Next?

As many readers know, about two years ago a Task Force of AIIM members worked with Geoffrey Moore (author of Crossing the Chasm, among many titles) to build out a "future history" of the content industry. The intention was to think about how enterprise information technology was changing in the wake of the influx of consumer technologies.

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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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Information Governance  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Extreme Information, Surviving a Derecho, and Cleaning Out My Mother-in-Law’s House

Those of you who have been following this blog for some time know of my tendency to "find" information management "lessons" in everyday experiences (witness, for example, my post on Walgreens as a Process Revolutionary). Well, I've got to tell you, the past few days have been loaded with lessons on the challenges we face in the Era of Extreme Information.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)  |  Mobile

Becoming a Process Revolutionary: 8 Things Walgreens Did Exactly Right

My story begins with this series of pictures, taken 27 years ago. At the time, this seemed like a cool idea for a Mother's Day gift, and maybe one that would begin a bit of a tradition.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

The Six Imperatives Facing Information Professionals

1. Make Everything Mobile Redefine content delivery and process automation to take advantage of mobile devices and mobile workforces. Ubiquitous mobile computing is one of the underlying core drivers for Systems of Engagement and continues to shape the future of these systems.

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Capture and Imaging  |  Document Management  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

8 Things You Need to Know about Enterprise Capture

One of the things I talk about during my presentations is that while capture is a mature technology (i.e., it actually works as advertised), the capture market is still relatively immature. Specifically, while a relatively high percentage of user organizations are scanning to archive, relatively few are extracting data from images to doing indexing or metadata, even fewer are extracting data to drive processes, and still fewer have a true enterprise capture strategy.

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