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We’re about halfway through this series of blog posts on document strategy (relying heavily on Kevin Craine’s book, Designing a Document Strategy). Before I go further, I want to take a backward glance at the topics covered up to this point:

Part 1. How “key documents” can help focus your document strategy design

Part 2. What a document strategy is

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Have you been keeping up with this series of blog posts on designing a document strategy? If not, I recommend that you read the previous three posts. In this post, I’m going to cover the first overall step in designing a document strategy, which is the baseline assessment. As in the previous posts on document strategy, I will draw heavily on Kevin Craine’s book, Designing ...

In case you haven’t been fervently following these blog posts on document strategy, let me refresh your memory. In Part 1, I discussed the 80-20 rule and how applying it to just a few of your company’s most important documents can cause a ripple of positive changes in your organization. Following that, Part 2 explained what ...

When you think of your work, your day-to-day tasks, do you think of the documents you use as tools? Answering “yes” seems obvious, yet for most of us, it’s probably not something we consciously think about. Perhaps this attitude stems from the fact that the document has been with us since the dawn of human civilization. But however ubiquitous the company ...

Whether you’re in the trenches of IT, at the level of CIO, or somewhere in between, you’ve no doubt heard about the importance of an organization having a document strategy.

Maybe your company already has a document strategy in place or is working toward having one. That’s great! But if you work for one of those 75% of organizations that don’t have a document strategy, read on.

Developing and following a document strategy isn’t as simple as implementing the “best” content management ...