Industry Insider

  • Ensuring the Failure of Your Knowledge Management Efforts

    It’s common to find articles with titles like ‘17 Steps to A Successful Knowledge Management Initiative’ or ‘The Fundamentals of Knowledge Management Success’. While the success of storing and sharing knowledge is specific to your context, I’m suggesting that the following are things common to knowledge management failures.

  • WD-40 Company finds the right formula for invoicing

    The Australian operations of the WD-40 Company, makers of the famed lubricant spray, wanted to reduce the amount of paper used in its Australian business. As a manufacturer and distributor in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, WD-40 Company typically processes around 100 invoices per week. These have traditionally been paper-based, with physical signatures required for each invoice to be approved.

  • Finance takes a new path to digital recordkeeping nirvana

    More than three years into its multi-million dollar quest to revolutionise digital record-keeping practices across Federal government, Australia’s Department of Finance has announced another shift in direction and a “review” of the current moratorium on new investment in records management solutions.

  • Bringing order to document chaos

    It’s no secret that organisations are shifting away from paper-based records and by all accounts the amount of electronic documentation being created and retained is growing. Where once documents were printed only to be boxed in an archiving carton and shipped off to storage, now you have documents being saved into any spare MB of space a user can find where they can quickly find their document again.