Is your organization attempting to improve sustainability?Do you want to reduce your carbon footprint, and preserve resources? A focus on sustainability will enable you to do just that, while concurrently cutting costs and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of your processes.
22. 3THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ECM
ECM is a strategy, not a product
An ECM strategy requires using
different technologies for different
problem scenarios
No one vendor or product addresses
all problem scenarios equally well
24. ECM
Strategy
• Team collaboration
• Intranet, wiki and blog publishing
• Archiving and e-discovery
• Advanced version control highly regulated
documentation
Collaborative Content
Creation/Management1
• Web content management
• Personalization and site analytics
• Digital asset management
• Engagement through social media
Optimizing
Website Experiences2
• Document imaging , e-forms, workflow/BPM
and records management
• Automate paper-intensive transactional &
case-based processes
• Link document-based information to
enterprise application data
Optimizing Document-Centric,
Transactional & Case-driven
Business Processes
3
The economy has managers wanting to put their hair out.
Managers are still trying to weather the storm, but there is no doubt to the effectively weather that storm your budgets have changed, and likely your priorities have changed too. You are doing more with less……
To be competitive today you need to be better than your competition and more importantly you need to be better than you were 10-5-3-2 years ago, and to be better you need to have the right information at the right time, to make the right decisions.
Let’s face it, for most organizations, especially in the service focused economy, your corporate information is your number on asset. But, do you have the correct data, to get a clear picture of all the information? Is the information you have allowing you to make competitive or strategic decisions that will improve your organization?
To survive, not just thrive in these market conditions means that you need to have information that is available to the right people at the right time to make them more effective in their decision making.
To survive, not just thrive in these market conditions you need to have information that will help make you LEAN and more efficient, and to align your costs, while making shareholders and customer happy. Well, today, providing products at the “right” price just ins’t easy.
Ultimately there is a lot going on today. Your company is more complex and there are many reasons for that complexity.
Markets are growing. ING. WILLIE SUTTON WAS ONCE ASKED WHY HE ROBBED BANKS AND HIS RESPONSE WAS: because that's where the money is...Now we are by no means comparing anyone to Willie Sutton, but as a company in the F&B INDUSTRY does it make sense to go where the people are? If you are not in one of the darker shaded areas, then you may be missing out on future opportunities
You have a lot going on!
But all of those challenges are just the beginning. You also need to deal with the industry trends!
And the industry is evolving. New trends need ot be monitored and executed upon for your successAND THE INDUSTRY IS EVOLVING. NEW TRENDS NEED TO BE MONITORED AND EXECUTED UPON FOR YOUR SUCCESS
Without a doubt we have an impact on our environment and an impact on how sustainability will be embraced within our organizations. Improving sustainability requires that the basics of reduce, reuse and recycle are embraced.
THE IMAGE IS HYPERLINKED TO A VIDEO ON YOUTUBE OUTLINING SUSTAINABILITY AND THE IMPACT IT CAN HAVE. IF ONE PERSON OR COMPANY DOES SOMETHING IT HAS AN IMPACT, BUT AS AN INDUSTRY, IF IT IS A FOCUS FOR EVERYONE THEN THERE IS A HUGE IMPACT.
To survive, not just thrive in these market conditions means you need ot have information available to the right people at the right time to make them more effective in their decision making.
SO HOW TO YOU IMPROVE SUSTAINABILITY? REPLACE RESOURCES THAT YOU USE, REDUCE OR ELIMINATE YOUR ORGANIZATIONS CONSUMPTION OF PAPER-BASED PRODUCTS (CORRIGATED AS WELL AS PRINTER PAPER). REDUCE, AS POSSIBLE SHIPPING, AND CONSUMPTION OF OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES. TODAY GOOD STEWARDSHIP IS CRITICAL FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION. THE WORLD IS CHANGING AND PEOPLE ARE LISTENING TO OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER CUSTOMERS. WE ARE MOVING TO A P-2-P WORLD WHERE PEERS WILL DRIVE CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS AND BEING A GOOD STEWARD IS CRITERIA THAT MANY CONSUMERS ARE LOOKING AT YOUR ORGANIZATION TO BE, IF YOUR NOT, THE WORD WILL SPREAD VIA TWITTER, FACEBOOK, BLOGS AND OTHER VIRAL TECHNOLOGIES. BEING A GOOD STEWARD, EMBRACING SUSTAINABILITY IS JUST GOOD BUSINESS.