According to new research from McKinsey, the highest current priorities for IT include improving the effectiveness and efficiency of business processes and reducing IT costs. For IT executives, reducing costs ranked first, followed by improving the effectiveness of business processes. Third was increasing the effectiveness of those processes. The priorities for non-IT executives were a little different. Improving the effectiveness and efficiency …
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 …
Within the last 30 days, my colleague Kimberly Samuelson and I have both written articles for CMS Wire. Both touch on “the enterprise,” but from different perspectives. While Kimberly’s article dives into defining the enterprise, mine builds on her foundation to provide a five step process for executing an enterprise-wide expansion of content management technology. When taken together, these articles …
Continuing on the theme of agility, I thought it would be interesting to talk to Evelyn Crofts, the Project Manager for Laserfiche’s Web Products Development Team, about the role it plays on her side of things. The conversation started with a description of how her team uses agile development to create web-based Laserfiche products like Web Access. Somewhere in the …
Briefing Laserfiche Obtains Full Compliance with Australia’s Victorian Records Management Standard Australia’s Public Record Office Victoria has certified Laserfiche against all five specifications of the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) Standard. The new certification includes tamper-proof security to guarantee document integrity and digital signature support for both documents and briefcases. Due to its rigorous testing process, VERS has become the worldwide standard on …
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