Every year, I say I hate prediction posts. And yet every year I write a prediction post. Putting your predictions into writing can be truly valuable.
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Everything You Know About Selecting Enterprise Software Is Wrong
I’ve been involved in software selection for 18 years, both as a buyer and as a consultant helping buyers find the right product for their needs. I’ve seen CIOs make snap decisions with little to no process, and RFPs that go on forever with no decision ever being made.
Continue reading...OpenText and Documentum: Still Not Buying It
It’s a little over a year since I offered my take on the (then) recent OpenText acquisition of Documentum. At the time, I was pretty skeptical the buy was anything more than a land grab to get maintenance revenue and boost short-term earnings per share.
Continue reading...Compliance Is a Business Decision
A colleague of mine at a single-state Blue Cross Blue Shield organization often begins his talks on InfoSec and Privacy by asking, “Raise your hand if you think a health payer needs to adhere to HIPAA regulations.” Inevitably, all the hands in the audience go up.
Continue reading...Office 365: Take a Wait and See Attitude
For those of you who read my posts here and elsewhere, you know that I’ve been fairly positive about what Microsoft has done with the Office 365 platform, so the title of this post might surprise you.
Continue reading...Office 365 Is Primed to Pick Up the ECM Pieces
How long have we had "real enterprise content management" (ECM)? Let’s be generous: even though electronic document management started in the mid-1980s, for argument’s sake, let's say 2000 (around the time that FileNet and Documentum rose to prominence). That’s 18 years.
Continue reading...4 Digital Transformation Hacks
Digital transformation is a hot buzzword these days, and, like all buzzwords, it’s often misunderstood. Rarely do people appreciate what it takes to truly digitally transform their organization.
Continue reading...Here’s How You Clean Up Network Shares
Despite the increasing capabilities of information management technology and despite how long organizations have been trying to implement better information management, the most frequent question I get from clients is "How do we clean up network shares?" And despite seeming like something that should be easy to do, it is
Continue reading...Forget About Collaboration
I’m on a five-hour flight to Houston from a large, east coast financial services client where I facilitated a workshop on collaboration, and my biggest takeaway is “forget about collaboration.
Continue reading...Consulting Success Is All About the Client Love
Consultants get a bad rap: out for their own gain, focused on billable hours rather than client value, willing to take on any project for a dollar (no matter how impossible to deliver), and beholden to their own success rather than their client’s.
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