STEPS TO

MANAGING AND

REUSING

CONTENT

Improving the way your organization manages and reuses content

• improves employee performance

• facilitates compliance

• reduces costs

• enhances productivity, and

• improves operational efficiency.

Following these 5 Steps will help you get started.

• Are they operating as “silos”?

1IDENTIFY DIFFERENT AREAS

OF THE ORGANIZATION

THAT FOLLOW

SIMILAR PROCESSES

Get them started sharing content and best practices.

LOOK CLOSELY AT SYSTEMS

BEING SHARED THROUGHOUT

THE ORGANIZATION2Reusing the content could help drive down costs.

• Does everyone use these systems

in consistent, efficient ways?

• Is standardized system training

available?

EXAMINE HOW DIFFERENT

AREAS CREATE, STORE

AND MANAGE CONTENT

• How difficult is it for employees

to find and understand the

content they need?

• How is the content kept current?

• Is a content standard in place?

3Identifying best practices would help everyone.

4LOOK FOR “HIGH-PAYOFF”

OPPORTUNITIES TO

CENTRALIZE CONTROL

OF CONTENT

• Which areas would benefit

most by implementing

CMS?

Convince management by demonstrating potential for ROI.

PROMOTE A CULTURE

OF SHARING

• What are the best ways to ensure

that everyone is aware of process

improvements and best practices?

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• Content audits

• Modularization and structuring of content

• Creation of content architectures

• Design of content standards, model documents and

templates

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