Office Document Strategies Blog

Burlington Business Can Embrace ECO Solutions

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Sep 4, 2019 @ 07:09 AM

Businesses are always looking for ways to improve their operations and often it takes a bit of guidance to point them in the right direction to make change.  Burlington businesses have the opportunity to tap into resource guidance through which can help them reduce costs while also helping the planet at the same time.   

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Topics: Customer service, Less paper office, digital filing

Its New Year And Time To Shred And Scan

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Jan 9, 2019 @ 06:01 AM

Tis the Season to Shred & Scan

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Topics: document storage strategy, document management, Hosted document management, docucapture, Paper shredding, paper filing, Paperless office, Less paper office, digital filing

Dropping Manual Paper Processes For Business Improvement

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Jun 22, 2016 @ 09:06 AM

Why is it in a world where thousands of transactions are handled every minute using the tap of a credit card on a terminal many businesses still cling to manual paper driven processes?  Express Pay speeds up sales processes for vendors and purchasers.

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Topics: business processes, Paperless office, Less paper office

Paper Focused Business Processes Bog Organizations Down

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, May 14, 2014 @ 07:05 AM

Last year AIIM the industry association made up of information specialists, sponsored an interesting paper which looked at the paper focused business processes.  One of the key themes of the document is that while paper storage for internal documents has gradually grown to become electronic filing in many instances the processes needed to deal with a myriad of incoming paper still gets little focus.

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Topics: document management, business processes, Less paper office

12 Signs You Should Invest in Electronic Document Filing

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Feb 19, 2014 @ 13:02 PM

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Topics: document filing, document storage strategy, document management, Document, paper filing, Less paper office

Floods,Derails, Storms & Power Outages Promote Document Management

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Tue, Jul 30, 2013 @ 07:07 AM

I have worked in the document management field, earlier called document imaging till some of the copier vendors grabbed that title, for almost sixteen years now.  In all that time I have never had as many enquiries about document management, scanning services, workflow and cloud electronic storage as in the past few weeks.

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Topics: cloud computing, document filing, document storage strategy, document management, Hosted document management, docucapture, office document strategy, paper filing, Paperless office, Less paper office

Scanning Productivity Impacted by Paper Prep - Darn Post Its

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Tue, Oct 2, 2012 @ 08:10 AM

One of the services we provide is an outsourced scanning bureau for clients looking to convert their paper files to electronic records.  I have observed the process we apply to this busy part of our operation and one thing that becomes abundantly clear is that productivity in any scanning operation is seriously affected by the way paper files are created.

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Topics: Scanning, document filing, document storage strategy, paper filing, Less paper office

8 Ways To Make Your Office Greener with Document Management

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Tue, May 29, 2012 @ 09:05 AM

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Topics: document filing, document storage strategy, document management, Document, cost of printing, paper filing, Environment, Less paper office

Electronic File Storage - the Range of Options

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Tue, Apr 24, 2012 @ 09:04 AM

I have been involved in configuring and supporting electronic filing in southern Ontario for almost fifteen years.  In the past few months I have been pleasantly surprised to have more people inquiring about electronic file storage.  I think one of the reasons that it is more acceptable for people to consider a less paper storage option is because they are becoming familiar with personally focused online file storage options.

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Topics: document filing, document storage strategy, document management, Hosted document management, Document, Less paper office