Analysis

Enterprise Search: ready to replace Document Management?
Enterprise Search: ready to replace Document Management?

Should a medium or small law firm invest in a Document Management System? Yes. Enterprise search sounds so powerful… can that be used instead?  Could you instead leave everything as it is, where it is, and apply Enterprise Search to make it accessible firm-wide? I don’t know of a search solution yet, that eliminates the need for a DMS. What does…

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Development – The Four Commandments (Content Migration Series)
Development – The Four Commandments (Content Migration Series)

Here are my recommended truisms for IT development tasks, particularly in the context of Content Migration. Document new design assumptions. Question stupid approaches. Validate deployment approach with timing numbers. Use challenging artificial unit test scenarios.

Corporate DMS outside of legal – taxonomy who?
Corporate DMS outside of legal – taxonomy who?

Introducing a Document Management System (DMS) to a corporation – not a law firm – brings a new level of challenge to the business analysis.  In a corporation, there might not be a pre-defined taxonomy to organize everyone’s information. A law firm almost always has an existing process to bill for services grouped by client,…

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KM twitter highlights: June 2012
KM twitter highlights: June 2012

The CersysInc twitter feed showed a good meta-narrative of Knowledge Management thinking gathered over the course of June 2012. Go visit the collected articles via these links.