Common ECM Traps and How to Avoid Them...

Ever do something that you know isn't the best for you? Sure...we all do. Upsizing that value meal at the fast food joint; sitting on the couch watching some tawdry reality TV show instead of exercising; avoiding the ever growing to-do list to check your Facebook updates; the list goes on. But, enough talk about our past weekend...how does this apply to enterprise content management (ECM)? 

Especially at this time of year when we put our New Year's resolutions into place, it's a great time to ponder the bad habits that can trap us in negative behaviors. 

Plenty of negative behaviors can threaten the success of your ECM project. The article, How to Overcome the Top Ten Challenges in ECM Project Management details the ECM traps you can fall into and how to avoid them: 

1. Budgeting inadequately

2. Failing to see things through from start to finish

3. Dropping the ball

4. Staffing inadequately

5. Interrupting with 1001 questions

6. Cutting corners that compromise the solution's performance

7. Poor communication

8. Insufficient training

9. Inadequate testing

10. Insufficient backup and disaster recovery planning

While the focus is on email management projects, the article What Works: Create a Project Team for Your Email Management Project also provides helpful recommendations for project management in all aspects of ECM implementations.

The bottom line:

Put aside the negative behaviors that can trap your project and prevent you from succeeding. There's no reason to fail if your ECM implementation includes the proper project management - including executive support, thorough planning, comprehensive budgeting, a strong project manager, and transparent communication.

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