Digital transformation: Are we there yet?
Leverage and manage critical assets in a hybrid physical and digital environment.
Transition from physical to digital within a unified asset framework, convert unstructured records and data to structured, and uncover valuable insights through automation.
There are so many facets to digital transformation and each transformation journey is unique to your industry, goals and objectives, and more. Yet, there are compelling universal reasons for change including inefficiencies caused by data silos leading to the potential lack of governance and inability to leverage valuable insights to remain competitive, ensuring all valuable information is converted from paper to digital for maximum accessibility and use, and enabling paperless ways of working in increasingly hybrid environments.
Simply stated, investments in your digital transformation allow you to access information from any source—physical or digital and on any media, consistently manage your data and information to minimize risks—both internal and external, put structure to unstructured information to maximize its value and lastly, empower your employees to achieve your business goals.
Five steps to digital transformation
To achieve the full benefits of digital transformation, you need to build a good foundation. And as with any journey, it’s best to start with step one. Here, we go into the logic behind each step of the digital transformation journey.
To help your team identify what to keep, check out:
Legacy records cleanup: join the DDIY movement
We know how little it takes for records to build up and get out of control. To figure out what you have and what must be retained, defensibly destroyed, or digitized is a time-consuming and resource-intensive endeavor.
Information governance advisory services
Watch the video to learn how Iron Mountain advisory services combine technology with expertise to provide holistic information governance services.
Demystifying digital transformation: identifying opportunity
Learn more about the first step on your digital transformation journey: identify
Not sure where to start digitizing? Read these:
Demystifying Digital Transformation podcast series - Part 2
In this AIIM On Air podcast, Cliff Madru, Vice President of Global Solutions for Iron Mountain, discusses the second and third steps of the digital transformation journey - digitize and store.
Step 2 on your digital transformation journey - Digitize your records
Once you've identified what records you need to keep, it's time to decide what to place in physical storage and what to digitize.
Digitizing 101 for records and information management
Why digitize? Mismanaged information can slow down your processes, frustrate your customers and reduce efficiency.
Getting real about the digital workplace
Digital transformation before the pandemic was often a technology-driven conversation focused on different ways to use cloud, mobile and other options to collaborate online and streamline workflows.
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Accelerate digitization and improve accessibility with digital storage
No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, delivering real business value from information requires better access, sharing and integration to create a truly collaborative, accurate and easy to use process.
Step 3 on your digital transformation journey - Store your information
Where you store your content is critical. When evaluating digital storage options, consider whether you want to store your data on-premises, in a shared data center, or with a cloud services provider.
Demystifying digital transformation - capturing new advantages
Learn more about the second and third steps on your digital transformation journey - digitize and store.
Free up your team’s time through automation. Learn more here:
AIIM state of the Intelligent Information Management industry: A wake-up call for organization leaders
As the non-profit association dedicated to nurturing, growing, and supporting the information management community, AIIM is proud to provide this research at no charge to our members. In this way, the entire community can leverage the education, thought leadership and direction provided by our work. We would like these research findings to be as widely distributed as possible.
Demystifying Digital Transformation podcast series - Part 3
Learn more about the final steps on your digital transformation journey - automate and unlock.
Digitize and automate your mailroom workflows with Iron Mountain Digital Mailroom solution
Learn how an intelligent digital mailroom service allows you to easily and quickly search your digitized mail from one central, secure location while improving collaboration through approval workflow capabilities.
Step 4 on your digital transformation journey - Automate your document-centric processes
A critical step along the digital transformation journey is automation -- finding ways to simplify manual processes that consume your valuable time.
Learn how your team can unlock its data:
Step 5 on your digital transformation journey - Unlock value of your data
This step is all about analyzing information across your different systems to identify key patterns and trends.
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Demystifying digital transformation – unlock the potential for better customer experience
Learn more about the final steps on your digital transformation journey - automate and unlock.
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