AIIM Research

This "How To" paper will help you; Understand the purpose and benefits of a Social Business Assessment; Take appropriate steps in the creation of an assessment, leveraging industry best practices; Identify the information that is critical to capture in order to reduce your future liability; Leverage your information to make informed decisions.

Many organizational processes are – like the cowpaths of old – never designed, they happened out of serendipitous need and became the way things get done. From a business standpoint, this is neither the best nor most efficient way to work. Planning, designing, and developing processes that focus the organization on reaching specific outcomes, quickly and efficiently, should be a priority; not an afterthought

Learn how to achieve best practices in ERM today with this compelling "how to" briefing from AIIM. This "how to" brief will help you:
- Ensure Information Governance
- Create a Classification Scheme
- Develop a Metadata Model
- Bring about Change Management
- Manage Social Media

The only constant, the saying goes, is change. In your constant efforts to improve and grow your business, you will need to change business processes, continually upgrade your products, automate with technology -- and most importantly -- keep your employees and customers happy.

IT initiatives don't often fail because of the technology; but because of spotty user adoption or outright rejection. Change management is a key factor in the acceptance, adoption, and success of any ECM system implementation. This handy checklist will help you create an ECM project plan that keeps this critical fact top of mind.

Are there bottlenecks with how your organization captures, accesses, and manages content? Before you attempt to automate a process you should look for ways to improve it. Technology for the sake of technology does not work and automating an inherently bad process will not improve it; in fact it may enhance the problem.

Put an end to Content Chaos, this "How To" White Paper will help you: Remove inefficiencies in content structure by showing you the most effective techniques to organize content; Eliminate confusion and ensure positive user experience for those navigating your website structure; Improve findability by showing you how to structure your corporate vocabulary most effectively; Remove barriers to information discovery through effective classification.

Learn to create a content model that maps out the strategy and elements of what should be scanned and captured as well as when, where, and who will do the scanning and capture function.

With nearly 8 out of 10 people believing that the cloud will be THE deployment method of choice for IT, you can't afford to misunderstand the cloud. When it comes to migrating your content to the cloud, here are 5 questions to help you get it right. This ebook will help you ask the right questions so that you effectively use the power of the cloud.

Does your organization hoard or purge information? This whitepaper will explain how a properly executed information governance plan will decrease your exposure to risk while making you more effective. Information is created and accumulates at eye-popping speed. But not all of this information is created equal. Proper information governance includes getting rid of information that no longer has any value to the organization.

We are heavily into the information age. Information is a competitive advantage - to some organizations it's even a form of currency. It's an old mantra, but a true one: you need to provide the right information to the right person at the right time (regardless of where the information "lives" or what device is used to access it).