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2007

Autonomation in Communication Management Processes

9:11:50 AM

Autonomation means 'automation with a human touch'. For the design of communication management processes this means automating the bulk of repeatable communication tasks, both inbound and outbound. This leaves workers free to spend time on dealing with non-standard communication from customers, an area where customer satisfaction gains are the largest: autonomation as a underlying principle to reduce costs and gain customer loyalty.

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Distributed Output Management
Electronic Document Management

Communication Intelligence for Production Management

11:19:23 AM

Business Communications Intelligence (BCI) provides data about process performance in communications processes. In this discussion I take a look at an example multi-channel campaign production and a dashboard perspective on Key Process Indicators. This is the production intelligence aspect of CI, an important management tool for those responsible for getting the message out into the hands of prospects and customers.

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Document Composition
Distributed Output Management

Understanding Cause-Effect in customer relationships with Business Communication Intelligence

11:02:50 AM

Marketers often struggle with market segmentation and customer identity management. Adding communications intelligence to segment parameters would provide insight into not only the communications behavior, but also content and context of communication transactions. In this time of mass customization, can you afford not to more effectively define, manage, and communicate with your customer segments?

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Customer Data Quality
Document Composition

Intelligent Mail-Doing it Right the First Time Around!

4:43:47 PM

When mailers decide how they will implement Intelligent Mail® the benefits they can derive will be based on the level of uniqueness they will assign to the Intelligent Mail® Barcode number. Even if there are no immediate needs to take advantage of these potential benefits, mailers would be wise to design their IMB implementation to assign barcode numbers unique to the mailing and the addressee so that Intelligent Mail® benefits can be enjoyed at a later date without another implementation project.

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Postal News
Mailing Efficiency

Calculating the Value of Software Investments - 2 of 3

5:17:26 PM

Our goal at Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software is to create value for our clients. Our software products are intended to simplify our customers’ business processes and/or improve their revenue stream. We are often asked to quantify this benefit, because our customers want to offset the cost of our software with savings in their business. A frequent question our customer have is: What is the productivity benefit, in real terms, of installing your software? This is the second in a three part series that describes how to measure the productivity benefit of our software. Here we’ll discuss hands-on quantification of the impact of software investments.

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Mailing Efficiency

Calculating the Value of Software Investments (1 of 3)

1:01:27 PM

This is a series of three blogs that provide background and guidelines on determining the productivity value of our software products. The first provides a theoretical background that discusses the Cost of Poor Information Quality. The second provides suggestions how to calculate the anticipated improvement of software installation for a given business process. The third discusses various process improvement management methods and how Group 1 Software technology components add value.

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Customer Data Quality

Communication Management in Government-administered Healthcare

3:21:54 PM

Communication Management is a discipline constituent in businesses processes of most industries. Recent efforts to reduce Medicaid and Medicare administration costs bring this into focus for Government-sponsored healthcare. MITA(Medicaid Information Technology Architecture) provides an excellent framework for enterprise architectures, and provides us the ability to define a central business capability that manages many-to-many, multi-modal and -channel communications transactions.

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Customer Data Quality
Online Account Management

Enterprise Address Management as a common resource for location intelligence

2:36:44 PM

Enterprise Address Management is an information management principle that provides centralized management and access to location intelligence, designed for large, diverse enterprise data environments.

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Customer Data Quality
Business Geographics
Mailing Efficiency

Mailing Efficiency Newsletters

1:53:07 PM

Check out our important mailing efficiency newsletters and be sure to subscribe to get your own copy delivered to you via email.

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Postal News
Mailing Efficiency

Intelligent Mail Barcode Getting Shorter

5:28:11 PM

The USPS has agreed to lower the minimum height for the new Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) to .125 from .134 inches. This was a move pushed for by many in the industry, but especially those utilizing ink jet printing technology. The change should dramatically reduce costs associated with switching to the IMB from POSTNET barcode methodology.

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Postal News
Mailing Efficiency

Move Update Changes On the Clock

2:10:08 PM

The time for comments on the new USPS rules related to move update have started ticking. The deadline is June 22, 2007. No significant changes occurred in the regulations from what had previously been reported, but a direct link to the proposal is now available.

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Postal News
Mailing Efficiency

Move Update Changes in the Works

5:00:25 PM

A recent notice in the Federal Register will have a dramatic impact on Move Update requirements for both First Class and Standard Class mailers. This appears to be part of the USPS plan for incremental increase in address and data quality in order to ensure greater deliverability and efficiency to postal operation.

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Postal News
Mailing Efficiency

What's the Hubba on Address Coding for CASS

9:17:23 AM

Wow-we have been very busy with our clients working on CASS Cycle L preparation. After countless calls and various industry meetings, I've come to some conclusions...

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Postal News
Mailing Efficiency

R2006-1 Rate Case Poses New Challenges

6:00:27 PM

The implementation of the R2006-1 rate case in two phases on May 14, 2007 and July 15, 2007 poses new challenges to mailers and the USPS. It is full of nuances that can affect your postage and workflow in unexpected ways. This is a series where we will present a few of these at a time.

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Postal News
Mailing Efficiency

DPV and LACS Processing

1:19:19 AM

DPV and LACS are really coming to your CASS coding process. For months, the vendor community has been working with the USPS to inform the mailers about the upcoming coding rule changes for CASS software.

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