The 2012 Calgary Stampede is behind us and a number of unfortunate cowboys, perched precariously on top of a raging bull, have had the opportunity to see Alberta soil close-up. The horses, bulls and the rest of the animals were still there and there were many new...

Have you ever asked yourself if there was a better way to do something? We recently had a problem and found a neat solution to it. We asked ourselves that recently when we received a PDF formatted transmittal document and needed to extract the file names and other...

The August 2012 edition of the Nova Scotia Business Journal published an article in which stated that ‘Collaboration’ was the ‘buzz word’ for 2012 according to ESI International. Formerly called the Educational Services Institute, this company is a provider of...

We commonly understand the term ‘Bootlegging’ as producing, distributing, or selling illegally or without permission. The item may be anything, including a document. The reason someone would use and perhaps update a document in their possession (not necessarily the...

The last four articles talked about QR codes, the small maze-like square we see everywhere and discussed how we could use it to help make the work of a Document Controller easier. This however is only one step in the process and would still require a certain level of...

David Zinger, an author and Management Consultant from Winnipeg, noted that Malcolm Gladwell, in his book “Outliers: The Story of Success”, stated that it takes 10,000 hours to be a ‘world-class expert’ in virtually anything. He added that we must fuse this work and...

Vendor document management is different then normal document management. Extensive meta data, specific workflow, and the notoriously elusive “Bill of Materials” (document register).

Many organizations use Excel to track document submissions. Even for DIY, its generally a mistake.

Oh, the joy of the cover sheet, or title page, or cover page, or why-the-heck-do-I-have-to-do-this pages. Why does this painful part of the document submission process exist at all? Lets work backwards. Assume an engineer in an operating plant needs an instruction...

We believe there is a very easy and consistent way to create vendor document registers. While DocBoss automates this process for our customers, it is a straightforward method you can use independently. We start by identifying various “levels” in the order information....