7 Steps to Success with Electronic Document Management
Remember the old days of offices being cluttered with file cabinets full of paperwork, ingoing and outgoing boxes filled with documents, paperwork stacked on every shelf, and filling every desk drawer? Aren't you glad they are a thing of the past? Isn't it nice to work in a day of paper-free office spaces, where everything is scanned and stored digitally for easy access and extra security?
In all seriousness, the paperless "office of the future" is still far from being realized for many organizations. Studies show that the average office uses 10,000 sheets of paper per year, and a little over half of the documents printed in offices wind up being stored in a building somewhere, never to be seen again! To make matters worse, organizations in the US alone spend more than $120 billion a year on printed forms, most of which are out of date within three months. Consider the fact that a single four-drawer file cabinet can hold up to 12,000 documents—that's a whole lot of paper.
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7 Questions to Ask Your IT Director or CIO
In any organization, the IT Director or Chief Information/Technology Officer (CIO/CTO) plays a pivotal role in managing and implementing technology, providing a key strategic interface between technology and the rest of the organization. They can serve as trusted advisors to executive leaders, offering insight about technology initiatives and oversight for the day-to-day technology needs of the organization. Indeed, in a world that has gone digital and remote, the presence of skilled IT leadership is more important than ever.
Despite this, just having a CIO on staff may not lead you to the promised land. Many organizations either don’t take full advantage of all that their IT Director or CIO has to offer, or they have an incompetent person in this position. Organizational leaders may also lack a good sense of how to leverage the skills and insight CIOs bring to the table for day-to-day or strategic decisions. However, we have also found that sometimes, executives, Mayors, City Managers, and other decision-makers simply don’t have the right questions to ask!
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Effective Leadership: Being Brilliant At the Basics With Kimberly Bailey, CIO, City of Memphis, TN
A lot of times, effective leadership entails stepping out of the limelight and away from all the glamor to be able to focus on building the best foundation for your organization to work efficiently. Kimberly Bailey, the Chief Information Officer for the City of Memphis, TN, is such a great leader. She has been able to lead her team successfully, even in a situation where everybody is forced to make a radical shift in the way they work. Kimberly is a model for the modern CIO – communicative, educative, and customer service oriented. She joins Abhijit Verekar on the show to talk about the modern CIO’s role and what the future has in store for it. For her, it’s not always about the technology; everything goes back to being brilliant at the basics, building a strong foundation, and letting the pooled talents of the team do the rest.
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The Many Faces of Innovation with C. Seth Sumner, City Manager, Athens, TN
The job of a city manager, for the most part, goes unsung when talking about the scene of local government, but their impact is much greater than people tend to give them credit for. Their invisible hand guides steady progress in a city and makes sure that the day-to-day operations of a city go as smoothly as possible. C. Seth Sumner is the City Manager of Athens, TN. He sits down with Abhijit Verekar to talk about the responsibilities of a city manager to the people of their city. Learn more about this important profession that makes sure the government is always doing its best to help the people.
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7 Reasons to Update Your IT Strategic Plan
Information technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate, and every year seems to bring some radical new solutions, systems, or software. Consider a few of the more remarkable trends in government technology in recent years.
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7 Pitfalls to Avoid During an ERP Implementation
The implementation of a new, top-tier, best-of-breed system, whether it be for Enterprise Resource Management (ERP), Electronic Document Management (EDMS), or a Human Resources Information System (HRIS), is an exciting endeavor. But it is also a precarious undertaking. For all of the opportunities that lie ahead from obtaining a new system, there is an even more significant amount of threats should the system not be implemented correctly
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The "Smart City" Myth
What makes a City or County a “Smart” organization? How much of the term is myth vs reality?
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The New Normal - COVID19 and Remote IT
The COVID-19 situation has intensified this week (a National Emergency), government IT departments should be working towards a no-touch support policy from this point forward. We call this "The New Normal" because these are things we could have implemented everywhere years ago - fortunately, the technology is mature enough that we are not inviting imperfect and unsecure tools into our environment. And from this point forward, we will need to change our understanding of "good service". In this webinar, we'll go over what we have found to be PROVEN best practices in a situation like this.
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