When it comes to the success of your organization, there’s a huge difference between work and intelligent work.
Brainless, haphazard work – work without that impetus of intelligence to propel strategic direction – does more harm than good. It’s unwork, actually.
The good news is that properly implemented document and content management strategies gets you on the right side of that dangerous divide between unwork and intelligent work.
DocuVantage had the pleasure of speaking on Healthcare Cloud Architectures at the Cloud Computing East Conference in Washington DC.
Topics covered were Cloud Architectures; What are they and why do you care? Various service models such as SaaS, PAAS, IAAS and CAAS were explained. Dave Wiggins, CTO, discussed deployment models and what that means for an organization; public, private, hybrid or some of both as well the clients, datacenters and connectivity needed for various business challenges. Do you need real time access to Imaging, Patient Records, Accounts Payable, Personnel Files or Policies and Procedures.
Marketing is a crucial element of your business operations if you really want your company to swap sales stagnancy for game-changing success. Transcending those borders and passing those bridges – the ones you never even thought you’d come across – is only possible with the planning and execution of a successful marketing program. And that means making your marketing campaign management as seamless, consistent and productive as possible.
After such a wicked winter, the first buds, blossoms and bird chirps of spring are certainly a treat: frozen noses to ambrosial aromas and frostbitten ears to sweet symphonies. Everyone knows this weather is ripe to refresh your space, but why limit the sparkle to grunt chores and junk drawers? Clean out, spruce up and organize your files with a dose of disinfecting, structure-flexing document management.
If you like wasting time with inefficient processes and you welcome mismanaged mayhem, then a real document management system with powerful workflow software, records management and email integration is not for you.
You like things the way they are, no matter how broken down, beat up and tapped out your workflow engine is. We know what you’re thinking, more or less:
What’s the biggest frustration for HR departments? Lack of strategized, secured and streamlined document management solutions.
… Sound familiar? If so, we feel your pain. DocuVantage has worked with enough frustrated HR managers, directors and generalists to know that the endless search through mismanaged personnel files makes productivity (and workplace satisfaction) impossible.
This is the second part of our feature on HR process improvement through a powerful information management system. The first installment featured four document management secrets for your HR team. Ready for the next five?
Here are five more tidbits to prime your knowledge on powerful document management and process automation for your HR department:
Process improvement. That’s a phrase that sends shivers down both managers’ and employees’ spines. Why? People – well, most people – are adverse to change. Whether it’s a fear of the unknown, a touch of laziness or a stubborn attachment to the status quo, a change in the way things get done doesn’t bode well with most individuals – not at first, at least. But if you don’t commit to improvement, you can’t commit to success.
Do you need a boost of process improvement?
Here’s how you know if your processes are underperforming:
Beginning in the 1980s, a number of vendors began developing software systems to manage paper-based documents. As the world digitized, the systems followed suit: Developers started writing a second type of platform to manage electronic documents. Digital document management was born.
The electronic document management system evolved to the point at which it was able to manage any type of file format, with applications transcending digital document management to include online collaboration tools, document indexing and metadata, workflow automation, records management compliance, auditing functions, information security and, arguably one of the most invaluable capacities, document version control.
Yet, the struggle continues.
The document management system has been revolutionized, to put it lightly, by Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing: streamlining services, cutting costs and customizing the user experience.
What is SaaS?
SaaS, Software as a Service, is a software distribution model in which applications and data are hosted in the cloud (i.e., internet) by a vendor or service provider and delivered as a subscription. This takes a great deal of hassle and frustration off your plate.