Laurel B. Sanders

Avoiding the Hamster Syndrome: 10 Rules to Ensure Steady Progress on Your BPM Project

In his well-known book “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten," which is regarded for its timeless insights, Robert Fulghum reviewed some basic lessons of life we all learned as children that are universally true, even at the places where we... Read >

Making What Goes Around Come Around: Improve Constituent Services by Re-using Information Effectivel

“In progress." When it comes to government, we hear those words a lot. It’s no surprise: meeting the needs of a geographically large nation with diverse constituents is challenging. Change and progress require time…and patience. Technology is one area ... Read >

Human Resources Audits: Six Ways Electronic Document Management (EDM) Can Help You Comply

Managers who are worth their salt work hard to ensure employees have the tools they need to handle everyday business and tackle potential challenges. Strategic planning, appropriate policies and clear communications—proactive and reactive—lay the groundwo... Read >

Employee Benefits, Grievances, and Termination: EDM and Workflow Help Manage HR in Good and Bad Time

Life can be intense. Every day, employee dramas enter the workplace unsolicited. Some of the greatest workplace concerns we face as HR professionals, employees, and caring colleagues are making sure: * Health needs are met and costs are covered as ... Read >

Payables, Payroll, and Contracts: Streamline Transactional Processing Where it Counts Most

For manufacturers, streamlining is nothing new. Cars today are aerodynamic, with slick curves replacing bulky angles. Flatscreen TVs require less space than their larger predecessors. Water heaters re-use surrounding air rather than electricity. Though th... Read >

Human Capital Management: Leverage Your Existing IT Systems with EDM and Workflow to Hire and Manage

Human capital management—finding and retaining people whose competencies, skills, and personalities will deliver the maximum economic value to your organization—is more critical than ever. As business becomes increasingly global, employers are requiring b... Read >

Content Management Technologies and Alphabet Soup: 26 Tips to Spell Success

Content management technologies advance so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. From enterprise content management (ECM) to electronic document management (EDM), business process management (BPM), business intelligence (BI), EDRM (electronic document and r... Read >

How to Shape, Manage, and Control Your Business Information: Tips for Using Electronic Forms Effecti

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato viewed everything as a form, and every form as an ideal version of an object. His notions hold true with an increasingly popular business tool: electronic forms (eforms), which allow organizations to stipulate the ideal... Read >

Change Management: Ensuring ECM Success by Preparing End-users for Automation

Preparations for a successful ECM implementation do not happen overnight. They involve in-depth analyses of business processes; software that is both flexible and extensible in its integration capabilities; vision; and commitment. They also do not occur i... Read >

Compliance, Security, and Cost-efficient Management: ECM Rises to the Challenge

The combination of a weak economy - causing many to streamline operations to keep afloat - and increasing regulatory demands made business challenging for many in 2009. Those that emerged from the rubble of crumbling profits, hoping to resurrect their bot... Read >

Are Your Electronic Documents Secure? Manager’s Checklist for Evaluating Your EDM System’s Security

Since business documents and their content drive the decisions and record the transactions that take place in every business, it’s critical for managers and their workers to ensure they’re secure. In an age where digital file management is increasingly ne... Read >

Paperless Processing: Moving from Fear to Confidence in Buying Technology

The Internet, cell phones, and other modern technology have helped us achieve more than ever in our businesses and personal lives. 24/7 access to information means we expect information when we want it, making it hard for us to wait. When we experience de... Read >

eForms Checklist: Find the Right Automation Solution For Your Business

"Work faster." "Get everything right the first time." "Outperform our competitors with better service." In challenging economic times, these goals are imperative. Yet achieving all three simultaneously is improbable unless you have the right tools to... Read >

Invoice Processing: Make A/P Cost-efficient with EDM and BPM

Timing is everything. From philosophers to athletes and business writers to investors, many a wise person has quipped about the importance of timing and bemoaned that lost time can never be reclaimed. In business, one place it’s universally true is invoic... Read >

Optical Image Technology and Kodak Give Presentation at ITEX Show

Optical Image Technology and the Eastman Kodak Company will give a collaborative and interactive presentation at the ITEX show at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Thursday, March 4, 2010. The session, entitled Common Pitfalls in Enterprise Content Manag... Read >