http://www.c3associates.com Content + Context = Collaboration Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:44:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en C3 Associates Principal Greg Clark's article "Eight Things SharePoint Needs to be a True ECM System" was published in the January/February 2010 edition of AIIM Infonomics Magazine, the ECM industry's leading publication. An electronic version of the article can be found here: http://www.aiim.org/Infonomics/ArticleView.aspx?ID=38351 http://www.c3associates.com/2010/01/c3-associates-article-published-in-aiim-infonomics-magazine/ With the release of SharePoint 2010 in beta and the anticipated production release sometime in the first half of 2010 (one source says it will be released late in Q1 but that's a full-blown rumor, so don't hold me to that), it is time to provide an update on the ... http://www.c3associates.com/2010/01/eight-reasons-sharepoint-2010-looks-like-a-true-ecm-system/ Our blog post "Eight Things SharePoint 2010 Needs to be a True ECM System" was the most popular post of 2009 on AIIM President John Mancini's Digital Landfill blog. Thanks to John and the AIIM team for all of their support this year. Thanks to them and the ... http://www.c3associates.com/2009/12/c3-associates-article-top-aiim-post-of-2009/ A former client and good friend sent me an interesting request the other day. Susan Lowe was updating the course details for an Information and Records Management program she is involved with and was looking for quotes to describe Enterprise Content Management to those who may not be familiar ... http://www.c3associates.com/2009/12/a-definition-of-ecm-and-thoughts-on-why-i-like-my-job/ C3 Associates Princial Greg Clark and Associate Pankaj Bhawnani presented at last week's AIIM Western Canada conference. Panjaj's topic was "How to Build an Information Management Strategy" and Greg's was "What Success Looks Like - The Anatomy of a Successful ECM Program". You can download both slide decks in the ... http://www.c3associates.com/2009/09/two-new-presentations-from-the-aiim-western-canada-conference/ The alignment of business and technology is absolutely critical to the success of an ECM implementation. This isn't a big secret and I'm certainly not the first to come up with that groundbreaking idea, but unfortunately it's very easy to say and not so easy to do. Recently I helped a ... http://www.c3associates.com/2009/08/when-the-ideal-solution-is-not-the-ideal-solution/ The hype cycle has started for the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 and I'm certainly not the only one to get caught up in it. I'm excited about anything that can help my clients better manage their information and I've always seen SharePoint as a potentially transformative platform bridging ... http://www.c3associates.com/2009/07/eight-things-sharepoint-2010-needs-to-be-a-true-ecm-system/ I had a very interesting email exchange with my colleague Simon Forman earlier today about whether openness is a prerequisite for success in the deployment of Enterprise 2.0 applications within an organization. The discussion started from a comment Simon made on my retweet of Mary Abraham's comments on Open Text Enterprise ... http://www.c3associates.com/2009/07/openness-vs-control-in-corporate-social-networking/ I've been thinking a lot about the (possibly) outdated concept of knowledge management as I do a bit of work with a client to help define a KM strategy. The twitterverse has given me some excellent resources on the debate about whether KM is dead, none better than a ... http://www.c3associates.com/2009/07/adding-process-knowledge-to-the-km-mix/ We've very proud to announce that Associate Pankaj Bhawnani has been recognized by the Project Management Institute - Southern Alberta Chapter (PMI-SAC) as one of Alberta's best project managers. Pankaj won the award for Project Excellence - Individual - Business and Information Technology at the PMI-SAC awards held in Calgary ... http://www.c3associates.com/2009/05/c3-associate-pankaj-bhawnani-wins-pmi-sac-award/