Last Friday, I was speaking with a colleague of mine regarding the evolution of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software within the banking industry. One of the main concepts we discussed was the innovation of process automation either driven by, or resulting in the creation of content. This concept, of course, has a much wider application that extends across all industries. …
Sometimes the best laid plans don’t go…well, quite as planned. So what happens when you planned ‘til the cows came home and encountered less than perfect results? A while back, I wrote an article that uses six sigma’s DMAIC methodology as a way to enact business process improvements. The five DMAIC steps from the article are: Define the problem. Measure the state of …
“We realized our people were supporting the processes instead of the processes supporting the needs of the department.” - Vito Filippi, Systems and Procedures Analyst for the County of Fresno, CA Does this sound familiar? You may recall last week’s post where Evelyn Crofts, Project Manager for Laserfiche’s Web Products Development Team, said “Rather than building your process to our software, it should …
Be honest with yourself: If you’re an IT director, would you rather manage a multitude of separate applications, or configure a handful of apps to handle the disparate needs of the departments you service? When the Corporate Commission of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians needed a more efficient way to manage the 500 contracts a year that keep their …
We all know about the Terrible Twos, right? Tantrums, the discovery of the word “no”? My personal favorite is the discovery of “why?” “Why is the grass green? Why is that house there? Why is mommy sad? Why, mommy, why?” But here’s the thing: as exhausting as the question is to hear from a child all day, every day, as a business …
Buyers Lab Report - Laserfiche 8.1 A recent Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) report has given the Laserfiche 8.1 software suite the highest possible Five-Star rating
Disciplined Autonomy The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed executives to discover how organizations manage the tension between the autonomy required by professionals and the control required to run an efficient business
Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Content Management for Process Workers Info-Tech evaluated eleven competitors in the ECM for Process Workers market, including Laserfiche