Thursday, January 26, 2012

AIIM New England Presents Golf Benefit Proceeds to Horace Mann School

I’m just back from the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Allston, Massachusetts, where, in my capacity as president of the New England Chapter of AIIM, I was able to take part in the presentation of the proceeds from the Chapter's annual golf benefit: this year to the tune of nearly $10,000.

Now, I could've written all of this down in traditional blog format, but I wanted to talk to you instead because I thought I would be better able to share how incredibly moving the whole experience was for me. So please tune into my new YouTube video and learn about what dedicated information professionals – and this singular set of educators – can do when they put their minds to it!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

ECM, BPM, and the Cloud: First Things First!

Now on my AIIM Expert Blog:

Recent conversations have left me concerned about the apparent continuing tendency of organizations to jump straight towards a cloud solution (pun intended) before ever asking their single most important question:

"What business problem are we trying to solve?”

And as I have said and written many times before, it is awfully hard to implement a system that meets your needs without first having defined what they are!

Read the complete post here.