Looking to make some changes within your organization to boost your efficiency but unsure where to start? While most organizations have plenty of areas that could use a little streamlining, we often recommend narrowing things down by evaluating your reliance on paper. Business processes that rely on paper documents are slow and prone to bottlenecks,…
Some of a business’ most valuable assets are ideas. From research data in lab notebooks to proprietary designs and trade secrets, intellectual property (IP) comes in many forms, making it a challenge to know how to protect it. What’s more, protecting intellectual property is a multi-layered process, as Forbes Technology Council points out. The best…
Credentialing specialists understand details. They have no shortage of data to maintain, from verifying medical staff credentials to ensuring that service providers, healthcare facilities, and insurance companies comply with federal and state credentialing regulations for medical professionals. As if all of that isn’t enough, it also falls to them to process new applications for physician…
When partnering with a document management company, who can you can trust with your business critical information? Choosing the wrong partner can lead to disaster, especially if they are inexperienced, untrained on the latest document management software, and/or if they outsource implementation to third-parties without your knowledge. Some pitfalls to be aware of range from…
Handling Different Asset Types A company can have many different types of assets: the traditional type, equipment, inventory and buildings, as well as document assets, like signed contracts, manufacturing spec sheets, engineering drawings, lab notebooks, and other intellectual property. Document assets are just as important as equipment and buildings – losing or damaging them could…
Onboarding a large number of employees in a compressed timeframe can be a nightmare. Some applicants are new and some may be returning employees, requiring you to know the difference between the two, to match those returning with their existing records and run new employees through the entire on-boarding process—fast and without mistakes. It’s the…
Along with Content Services and Business Process as a Service (BPaaS), information governance is a relatively new term that has gained traction recently, but why? Information governance is about the effective and efficient use of information in your organization, helping you to make better decisions and to achieve your goals. In this way, information governance has the potential to transform information into knowledge and to help your organization evolve.
It’s getting more difficult for non-profit organizations to minimize their operating expenses when asking rents on older loft buildings in places like South Midtown NYC – historically shunned by traditional businesses and coveted by non-profits – have surged over the decade. The gap between Class A and Class B properties has narrowed considerably as well….
To maximize your return on investment when implementing document management software, it’s important to develop a sound business strategy with specific and measurable goals based on key metrics. We recommend you start in a single department, identify key metrics, implement the document management solution, and then compare the results against the key metrics to determine…
Information is a funny thing; in today’s day and age it has become both a business enabler and an anchor holding back a business. That is because for many organizations information is not on their radar – oh sure they want to manage documents but information is something slightly different. Documents- are file type. They can be managed simply by having any file repository from simply a network drive to even many of the consumer grade fileshare and “ECM” products.