Silke Dannemann
Enterprise Content Management Consulting
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ECM Resources

What is ECM?
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the strategies, tools and methodology to manage and optimize your content in a way that you can achieve your pressing business requirements. The focus should be on defining the strategy first. Then ECM technologies can be applied to enable streamlined management of your knowledge assets in a manner that maximizes your content to achieve your business goals. The following was produced by AIIM:

The ECMs Methodology

Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment (MIKE2) is the best practices methodology for implementing ECM. The 5 phases of MIKE2 are:

Phase 1 - Business Assessment and Strategy Definition Blueprint
Phase 2 - Technology Assessment and the Selection Blueprint
Phase 3 - Information Management Roadmap and Foundation Activities
Phase 4 - Design Incrementally
Phase 5 - Incremental Development, Testing, Deployment and Improvement

The focus of MIKE2 is on prioritization, governance, implementation cycles, feedback, successes and results, keeping a project on track.