DM Manager: Laura Wenzel on Solving the 37-Minute Search Problem

Publication: DM Manager
Date published: 2026-03-01
Author: Laura Wenzel, iManage
Type: Thought Leadership / Opinion

In this opinion piece for DM Manager, Laura Wenzel, Vice President of Product Management at iManage, tackles what she calls the "37-minute search problem" — the average time knowledge workers lose each day hunting for the documents they need to do their jobs.

Wenzel argues that this isn't simply a productivity inconvenience, but a systemic failure of how organisations manage and surface their institutional knowledge. The piece explores how AI-powered search and intelligent document management can transform this experience, turning fragmented document repositories into dynamic, searchable knowledge assets.

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