It’s Time The ECM World Stood Up For Itself

UNDRSTND Group’s Managing Partner Brent Bussell has contributed this week’s #thedmcollaborators article.  It it, Brent discusses why the ECM community needs to rally round and spread the word about its contribution better than it’s currently managing. According to Brent, rival technologies are encroaching on the core territory of Enterprise Content Management – despite the fact that ECM can (and…

Paper-Free Progress Has Been Made – But We’re Not Out Of The Woods Yet

This week’s #thedmcollaborators article is from AIIM’s Chief Analyst Bob Larrivee on ending the business process paper chase. As we gear up for another World Paper Free Day next month, global information management leadership group AIIM has come up with some timely research into the rate of progress AIIM members are making when it comes to the move towards a…

A New Economy Needs A New Economics

This week’s article from AIIM’s Chief Evangelist, John Mancini, is on ‘infonomics’, a way to conceptualise and measure the value of information assets. According to John the intriguing idea is something AIIM’s high-level industry Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has arrived at. The ELC points to a growing gap between the traditional ways we value companies in terms of the tangible and intangible assets reported…

Is Poor Contract Management Leading to Fiscal Waste

This week’s #DMCollaborators article, from EASY SOFTWARE’s Howard Frear, is on the perils of poor contract management. Howard discusses the case of an employee in Western Australia who was responsible for an IT services contract that was meant to come in at AUS$44m but ended up costing the Australian taxpayer AUS$81m. You can read Howard’s article in full here If you have…

Dealing with the Perfect Storm

The latest #DMCollaborators blog is from AIIM’s new interim president Peggy Winton on why AIIM has revised its core certification, Certified Information Professional (CIP), to reflect the huge changes, driven by consumerisation, cloud, mobile, and the Internet of Things. According to Peggy, this ‘storm of changes’, that has taken place over the last ten years, has completely changed how the world…

Mind the Compliance Gap

This week’s article on the #DMCollaborators blog is from AIIM’s Bob Larrivee on why it may take one huge scandal to get information management executed properly. Bob asked the AIIM global membership about the drivers for Information Management in 2016, and CEOs agreed that the main drivers were around minimising risk and meeting key compliance KPIs.…