ECM Usage Patterns in Life Sciences by Richard Medina Co-Founder and Principal Consultant for Doculabs Inc.

Different industries have their own typical set of ECM “usage patterns” for ECM. This post outlines the most common and important ECM usage patterns in life sciences companies. It also applies t... read more

Why no-one uses the company intranet... by Angela Ashenden Principal Analyst, Collaboration for MWD Advisors

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Ah, the intranet. One of those great ideas that somehow never quite lived up to expectations, right? An internal, private online environment designed to be to the enterprise what the Internet wa... read more

Legacy Information Clean-up and Defensible Disposition: What to do if you do not have a filing plan? by Johannes Scholtes Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer for ZyLAB UK Limited

There is more than one reason to create a filing plan for your organization. Every business or program must address well-defined objectives which will add value, either directly to the bottom li... read more

Kodak Moments by Mike Alsup Senior Vice President for Gimmal Group

Talking to my friends at Kodak last week, I heard that the Kodak Document Imaging Group had been acquired by the UK Kodak Pension Plan as part of the Kodak exit from bankruptcy.  Over the weeken... read more

Business Analysis for a Taxonomy by Carl Weise Program Manager for AIIM

Like all business analyses, the business reasons for a taxonomy can be examined from two different perspective.  These are a quantitative analysis and a qualitative analysis.  Both of these pers... read more

For the Children by Daniel Antion Vice President of Information Services for American Nuclear Insurers

Last Week, I described my effort to begin crafting an Information Policy that will apply to one of our most recent SharePoint solutions. Eventually, I hope to have a collection of these policies... read more

A Challenge to Records and Information Managers by Jeffrey Lewis Records Analyst for Zimmerman Associates Incorporated

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Every day we have two choices 1)Take a risk or 2)Play it safe.  The same is true with records and information management.  Too often the focus is placed on “records” and not “information.”  In t... read more

SharePoint Governance: What You Need to Know to Put a Plan Together by Matthew Bretzius Public Relations Manager for AvePoint, Inc.

This is a guest post by Jeremy Thake, AvePoint Chief Architect and Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP) (Note: This is part of our series “Collaborate with Confidence”. Prev... read more

Out and About – More Questions than Answers by Mike Alsup Senior Vice President for Gimmal Group

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Today, I was inspired by Laurence Hart (Life of Pie) and his review of what has been happening in ECM over the last 6 years.  Also, John Mancini pointed to an important CMSWire summary of what i... read more

Big Bang Implementation Theory by Bob Larrivee Director/Industry Advisor for AIIM

I know it’s cheesy to take a TV show title and play with it this way but you stopped to see what I wrote didn’t you? OK so since you took time to begin this post, hopefully I can keep your atten... read more