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Avoiding the Hamster Syndrome: 10 Rules to Ensure Steady Progress on Your BPM Project
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
In his well-known book "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten," which is regarded for its timeless insights, Robert Fulghum reviewed some basic lessons of life we all learned as children that ...
Human Resources Audits: Six Ways Electronic Document Management (EDM) Can Help You Comply
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
Managers who are worth their salt work hard to ensure employees have the tools they need to handle everyday business and tackle potential challenges. Strategic planning, appropriate policies and clear communications—proactive and reactive—lay the groundwork ...
Employee Benefits, Grievances, and Termination: EDM and Workflow Help Manage HR in Good and Bad Times
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
Life can be intense. Every day, employee dramas enter the workplace unsolicited. Some of the greatest workplace concerns we face as HR professionals, employees, and caring colleagues are making sure:
* Health needs are met ...
Payables, Payroll, and Contracts: Streamline Transactional Processing Where it Counts Most
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
For manufacturers, streamlining is nothing new. Cars today are aerodynamic, with slick curves replacing bulky angles. Flatscreen TVs require less space than their larger predecessors. Water heaters re-use surrounding air rather than electricity. Though they ...
Raise the Bar on Performance in Your Legal Practice: Get More from Your Information Systems with EDM
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
Life’s melodramas certainly make colorful scenic backdrops for legal practices. Whether you handle divorce, corporate negligence, routine contracts, or wills and testaments, stories often are hidden amid a slew of documents. Finding the truth and ...
Human Capital Management: Leverage Your Existing IT Systems with EDM and Workflow to Hire and Manage Top Talent
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
Human capital management—finding and retaining people whose competencies, skills, and personalities will deliver the maximum economic value to your organization—is more critical than ever. As business becomes increasingly global, employers are requiring broader skill sets, ...
Content Management Technologies and Alphabet Soup: 26 Tips to Spell Success
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
Content management technologies advance so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. From enterprise content management (ECM) to electronic document management (EDM), business process management (BPM), business intelligence (BI), EDRM (electronic document and records management), ...
How to Shape, Manage, and Control Your Business Information: Tips for Using Electronic Forms Effectively
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato viewed everything as a form, and every form as an ideal version of an object. His notions hold true with an increasingly popular business tool: electronic forms (eforms), which allow ...
Automated Forms Management: Maximize Your Time and Resources
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
One night this summer, I ordered a few things online for my daughter for horseback riding camp. It went like this: As I sat at my computer, ready to tackle a non-profit newsletter I had ...
Palm Beach State College: Optimizing Student Services and Disaster Recovery Measures with ECM
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
Palm Beach State College serves approximately 47,000 students in one of the largest counties in Florida. Composed of four campuses, Palm Beach State receives approximately 20,000 applications per year— usually between 12,000 and 15,000 during ...
Extending ECM to the Back-Office: Palm Beach State College’s use of ECM to Improve Human Resources and other Back-Office Process
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
To have a successful enterprise content management (ECM) implementation, you need to have some key factors in place. First, you should invest in a high-performance software system that can integrate with your current business/IT environment—legacy ...
Improving Financial Aid Verification with ECM: How Palm Beach State College Decreased Backlog from Six Weeks to Two Days
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
One of the most labor-intensive and cumbersome processes for staff, students, and parents is financial aid Verification. On a national level, usually about 30% of students applying for financial aid have to have their documentation ...
Compliance, Security, and Cost-efficient Management: ECM Rises to the Challenge
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
The combination of a weak economy - causing many to streamline operations to keep afloat - and increasing regulatory demands made business challenging for many in 2009. Those that emerged from the rubble of crumbling ...
Are Your Electronic Documents Secure? Manager’s Checklist for Evaluating Your EDM System’s Security
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
Since business documents and their content drive the decisions and record the transactions that take place in every business, it’s critical for managers and their workers to ensure they’re secure. In an age where digital ...
Paperless Processing: Moving from Fear to Confidence in Buying Technology
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
The Internet, cell phones, and other modern technology have helped us achieve more than ever in our businesses and personal lives. 24/7 access to information means we expect information when we want it, making it ...
Invoice Processing: Make A/P Cost-efficient with EDM and BPM
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
Timing is everything. From philosophers to athletes and business writers to investors, many a wise person has quipped about the importance of timing and bemoaned that lost time can never be reclaimed. In business, one ...
Use Your Content Wisely: How Strategic ECM Can Help Insurers to Get Ahead in 2010
By Laurel Sanders · 13 years ago
As insurers move toward 2010, most continue to invest in future growth – an encouraging sign despite a tough year in 2009. Information technology in general, and content management in particular, are a strategic part ...
Smart System Design: How to Get the Information You Need from Your Document Management System, Every Time
By Laurel Sanders · 14 years ago
Have you ever planned a lengthy trip to an unfamiliar place? Even if you choose an ideal location, you’ll probably be disappointed unless you define your expectations. Typically, this involves doing thorough research, gathering and ...