You Don’t Have to be Superman to Change the Course of Discovery
You can think about Discovery as a process of continuous improvement. By making changes in how you approach the review process, you have the potential to dramatically reduce costs. Companies today are...
View ArticleFastest Route to Truly Paperless Accounts Payable
Today’s competitive business environment is forcing organizations to look for ways to reduce back-office processing costs and gain efficiencies while improving staff productivity. Eliminating paper...
View ArticleAnyone Up for a Four Hour Workweek?
The bestselling book “The 4-Hour Workweek”, by Timothy Ferriss, has many tips (like reading email only two times per week) that seem impossible – at least to me. But his general point is well taken:...
View ArticleKick Your Habit. Make A Real Impact.
I recently returned from a national sales conference and learned from one of our Sales reps about a CFO who wanted to make a difference to the company he recently joined. How could this CFO make a...
View ArticleInfographic: From Paper Process to Business Focus
Today’s business world is unforgiving. Adapt or risk falling behind. One way to move forward is to improve workflows by streamlining your document-centric business processes. The drivers pushing you to...
View ArticleElectronic Document Management: Taming the Virtual Flood
In an old Warner Bros. cartoon or 1930s screwball comedy, we could see a company drown in a flood of its own documents. They would burst open the file cabinets, spraying out like water from a failing...
View ArticleAP Automation: Matching Socks and Invoices
I recently took a recommendation to read the book “Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business” by Luke Williams. “Disrupt” is about entrepreneurs looking to create a...
View ArticleGood Habits: Automatically Do What Works to be a Successful AP Manager
It’s 2PM. If you’re like me, every day at this time you’ve hit your lull. You start checking your phone every few minutes to make sure time isn’t standing still. You’re tired – coffee won’t help and...
View ArticleYour Steps to a Digital Workflow
Stepping Out Ever had a breakthrough that makes you totally change the way you think about something? To the point you actually DO something about it? This is what my new Fit Bit has done for me. I...
View ArticleTake the Experts’ Advice to do Your Best
Taking Advice on the Journey I recently spent a couple weeks sailing across the Aegean– with an experienced skipper, crew and my 11 year old son. Our trip was amazing – Historic sights and sounds of...
View ArticleIncrease Employee Satisfaction by Converting Paper to Digital
Employee Engagement Really Matters How much of your workday is spent doing what you really love? According to my friends the majority of folks would rather be doing something else. Some people do what...
View ArticleWhen do you stop telling people what to do…. And start showing them?
Do you remember days earlier in your career, in your wild enthusiasm to make a difference, you started telling everyone you met at the company that you had an idea that could change the way they...
View ArticleWhat can Earth Day “Selfies” Do to Help Our Planet?
What can Earth Day “Selfies” Do to Help Our Planet? I just read an article about an idea developed by NASA to engage everyone on the planet in promoting Earth Day, April 22, 2014. NASA is marking this...
View ArticleGaining Greater Meaning from Your Work
I recently read an article about “job crafting” – a way to change the job you’re in to create more meaning at work. Researchers found that people get meaning from their work by having or creating a...
View ArticleThe Why Behind the What – Survey Results
An extremely progressive, hard driving, very successful (and former) boss, when presenting new marketing plans, establishing goals or defining strategies, always asked his team to take a step back and...
View ArticleInformation Management and Governance for HR – Shared Services “Roomnet”
I just read a Jack Cheng article on the continuing value of person-to-person communication, published in the Boston Globe. It’s about a group of (wired) scientists on an archeological dig in a remote...
View ArticleBe Happy and Celebrate World Free Paper Day November 6, 2014
My story comes from a TED Talk,” Does Less Stuff mean More Happiness”. Graham Hill, a man who made millions from a company building websites in the 70’s when the Internet was just getting started,...
View ArticleIron Mountain Capture Service – When you want to choose a pre fixe menu...
Eating In I find it interesting to think about our own personal relationships with food and food choices. How we eat at home is wonderfully illustrated in Mark Menjivar’s photo essay, What Does the...
View ArticleExtreme Makeover HR Edition – The role of Information Governance
In a recent webinar Kym Burke, VP HR Services at Iron Mountain, shared real-life examples of how Iron Mountain transformed the HR Service Delivery Model with a view towards good Information Governance....
View ArticleAIIM Paper Wars – Today’s Table Stakes Are Higher Than Ever (Infographic)
According to the recent AIIM Survey the accelerating pace of business and increasingly demanding customers are driving new ways to communicate, respond and inform. Gone are the days when you or your...
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