Does Your Company Have a Component Content Management Problem?

By Ann Rockley at 2008-08-22 08:31:00 |

You may sense that you need Component Content Management, but how can you be sure? Using the checklist below, click each box that represents a symptom your enterprise presently experiences. We'll total up your score at the end and offer some feedback. Please note that this quiz is not in any way scientific - it's just indicative and fun advice!

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13 Symptoms of Content Component Management problem

People seem to be recreating pieces of content over and over again

Content appears in multiple formats and channels, and when it needs to be changed you can't find all the occurrences to update it

There is no consistency in how specific types of content (e.g., brochures, product overviews) are written and organized; everybody seems to do it differently...

You can't find content and when you do you aren't always sure it's the right version

Your authors would like to reuse content - rather than having to rewrite stuff - but the tools won't let them.

Your customers complain that similar types of content never have the same level of detail.

Legal is concerned about legal liability resulting from inconsistent information in content

Translation costs are spiraling out of control and/or translation timelines are delaying publishing and product shipments

You're wasting large amounts of time converting content written for one channel to content for another channel

You need to develop content collaboratively, but it is very difficult to do

Your customers have been demanding customized/personalized content that you can't deliver

You have many related products and services, but can't track common information across different variants

You produce technical documentation without XML and DITA

This wont hurt a bit...

This might sting a little...

I'm going to put you in touch with a specialist...

It's worse than I thought...

Congratulations!
Your content management problems are less worrisome than most - you seem to have procedures and tools in place to keep your content in control. You may still benefit from new and easier to use technologies that arriving on the market. Or potentially in some niche technologies to build on the work you have already done.

Be careful!
Your content could get out of control quickly. You should look at changing the way you create and manage content now so it doesn't become a major problem later.

Browse this site, investigate the XML & Component Content Management Report, and start creating a business case for streamlining your content creation, management, localization, and publishing processes now.

Ouch!
Frankly you're in a bit of a mess - you need to immediately put some procedures and technology in place to bring your content under control. You're at risk of legal liability or at minimum missing deadlines and unhappy customers.

Browse this site, investigate the XML & Component Content Management Report, and start creating a business case for streamlining your content creation, management, localization, and publishing processes now.

 

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