White Papers

Information Mapping offers white papers on the following topics. Please fill out the form to access the PDF files.

• A Solution to Business Problems Caused by Poor Communication
  Discover the business problems caused by poor management of an organization’s knowledge, and Information Mapping’s solution for resolving them.
• Content Management System Survey
  Learn how organizations have prepared to implement a Content Management System, the extent to which XML strategies are utilized, and the decision process for doing so.
• Documentation Challenges and How to Overcome Them
  As more and more information is developed and becomes readily available to knowledge users, more effort needs to be associated with analyzing, architecting, and ensuring that the information itself meets the operational needs of those users for whom the information was developed in the first place.
• Don’t Think You’re Spending Much on Documentation? Think Again.
  If you’re like most managers, you probably think of documentation as a necessary evil, but it hardly seems to be worth the time and effort that it takes to develop and maintain.
• E-Mail and the Decline of Business Communications
  Business writing has come a long way in the last 20 years. Most would say downhill.
• Getting Compliance Under Control: How to take an Integrated Approach to Quality, Safety and Environmental Performance Management
  Consolidate your efforts toward a method for communicating compliance information that links all company procedures and policies to quality – a comprehensive compliance management system.
• Meeting Your Organization’s Information and Communication Challenges
  Learn the four fundamental challenges that organizations face in today’s information-based economy.
• Policies and Procedures Compliance: Writing Policies and Procedures that Reduce Corporate Exposure and Increase Employee Productivity
  Without clear, well-organized policies and procedures, no amount of technology can save companies from simple human error. Learn these 6 steps to improving policies and procedures.
• Putting a Cost to Unstructured Information
  One of the biggest challenges end users currently face is the inability to efficiently find and understand information. In fact, the cost of this inefficiency is significant.
• The Bottom-Line: Calculating Savings from the Information Mapping Method
  Achieve qualitative communication changes that result in quantifiable productivity increases — increases reflected directly on the bottom-line.
• Top 10 Symptoms that Your Organization’s Communications May Be Failing
  You depend on your people to follow established policies, procedures, and directives – but what if the instructions, information, and documentation they depend on are unclear, inaccessible, or ineffective?