A survey of more than 600 lenders in the mortgage market which was undertaken in April 2010 by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services found 76 percent were still relying on an inefficient paper-based method to process mortgages. The top reasons lenders had not implemented an electronic solution were security of borrower data, high implementation costs, and the potential impact to lending workflow. The OneFile mortgage workflow solution offered by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services helps lenders overcome all of these obstacles. Read further >

The content industry has seen much innovation over its long history. Innovation today in the content industry seems centered around (1) mobile capabilities; (2) advances in relevance ranking for search; and (3) the transformation of content into software and workflow tools; and (4) cloud computing. We speak about innovation in general and give specific examples of innovation. But what, specifically, is innovation, and how does it occur? I’m convinced that players in the content industry that relentlessly focus on making their customers more productive (particularly when it involves supplementing or replacing content with software) inherently innovate even though they do not have a formal definition of innovation. Read further >

The importance of innovation for organizational success is a fact. Organizations no longer sustain a competitive advantage by maintaining current processes, products, or services. Looking at companies like Google, you can easily figure out that the working environment is one of the main factors to allow creativity to take off. But it is not the only one. Read further >

Penguin books just started an interesting experiment on social media marketing of the new book of Hari Kunzru – “Gods without men”. The approach is to tap “influencers” via PeerIndex and get them involved in spreading the information on this new title. Read further >

Last week I attended the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) meeting in the quaint town of Ojai, CA. About 200 Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs) gathered there for relevant, focused, and practical updates on the world of Health Information Technology (HIT). For the benefit of those who weren’t able to attend this year, I’ll provide a few highlights on the trends and developments discussed at this year’s meeting: Read further >

After more than eight years of work and research, Wolters Kluwer technology experts for the Clinical Solutions product lines were recognized for their product ProVation Cardiology DocuDiagrams that was recently granted a patent. Read further >

In reference to a love song from the band “Foreigner”, I chose the title to this blog post. At the TechConference in Atlanta, end of June, the most recent tech developments inside and outside of Wolters Kluwer met the latest and also well-known customer requirements from our different target groups. For me it became clear during the conference that the answers around search – that we currently offer to solve our customer’s problems – are indeed not more than a specific facet anymore. Read further >

I use several technical devices: a laptop computer, an iPad2, a BlackBerry smart phone, and a personal cell phone. I like having a choice of devices to communicate with others and to do my work, but I’m starting to wonder whether all our customers want the same thing. Read further >

Do you engage with social media while you are at work? Do you have “time” or have you made time to? Do you use it as way to communicate with colleagues? Read further >

Collaboration is a key success factor in achieving a goal and the main way to collaborate is to be connected to the information you need. Read further >