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Achieving 'Voice Productivity' with Digital Dictation Software

By Alan Ciochon
September 26, 2007

Although Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. ('WHD') is based in the Midwest (offices in Milwaukee, Madison, and Manitowoc, WI), the firm's clients and their business interests extend around the world, challenging the firm to continually create higher standards for client delivery, as a function of increasing staff efficiency, firm collaboration, and enhanced mobility.

The firm's IT group is a 14-member centralized team that is charged with the responsibility of pursuing value-added technology solutions for the staff and its clients. With this overriding mission in mind, Anna Boll, the firm's IT project manager, and I began our pursuit of selecting and rolling out a new dictation technology to our staff.

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