Re: I had hoped to get more of a response - Re: Managing versions of documents - problems and concerns

["Brian Das" <brian_das -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Bill D wrote: "After spending a few hundred thousand dollars for your EDMS:
1.  State your document management objectives. You have listed these as
Issues 1 through 7.
2.  Put these objectives into the form of step-by-step procedures.
3.  Implement your procedures using the EDMS workflow package.
4.  Test each procedure to make sure it works the way you want it to.
5.  Be sure someone is available to maintain the EDMS!"

I would do things in a slightly different order. I suggest designing and (to
the extent you can ) implementing your procedures BEFORE spending a few
hundred large ones on an EDMS! Once you have workable and valuable
procedures in place, find a document management system that supports and
automates those procedures.

Who knows, maybe you're working with such a huge volume of work that you'll
require a big enterprise software investment. If that's not the case, I
recommend you start small and smart, with some of the tips and tricks other
posters have provided.

Cheers,
Brian


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