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Is Keeping Up with Regulatory Standard Changes a Challenge?

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Chris Kocher

Senior Solutions Architect

Published on: August 22, 2022

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Keeping up with changing regulatory standards can be a heavy lift for any organization

In highly-regulated industries, it can be a uniquely overwhelming—and business critical—challenge to keep up with regulatory standard changes and updates.  

Changing regulatory standards, or even simple updates, require finding, updating, and republishing every piece of content that includes the standard, which can easily exist in hundreds of different publications. 

“When a Gas Standard changed, we had to rely on the knowledge of the team to remember where all instances of that standard are referenced in our content,” explains the Manager of Curriculum Development at a regional Energy & Utilities company. 

“As a result, content updates could take several days.” 

With more than 4,000 individual documents under their purview — including instructor-led training materials, web courses, manuals, online references, and individual topics — ensuring consistency and accuracy wasn’t just about how content was created and reused. The team also had to implement consistency and standardization across how they managed revisions, traceability, and content storage.

Today, with a few clicks, their team can produce a report that shows every piece of content that has been associated with that Gas Standard, with links and document information.

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With MadCap Create and SyndicateAI, we simply update the source content and then we can seamlessly push the updates to every single location where the content is used, so updates now take hours instead of days — a time savings of more than 75%

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Schedule a free consultation to explore how MadCap Software can help your organization keep up with regulatory standard changes and content updates with greater efficiency and accuracy than ever before.


headshot of Chris Kocher in a grey sweater

Chris Kocher

Senior Solutions Architect

Chris Kocher is a word enthusiast, a veteran English teacher, and self-prescribed “tech-head” who lives and breathes technology as much as he is obsessed about effective learning. Having spent nearly two decades as a professional educator with an intense focus on melding the benefits of technology with the intricate aspects of learning and development, he now is with the MadCap Software team as a senior solutions architect. In this role, he revels in solving complex problems and working alongside other industry-leading minds to help organizations re-envision how enterprise learning can scale and be effective, engaging and personalized.

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