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
Topics: document storage strategy, document management, Hosted document management, docucapture, Paper shredding, paper filing, Paperless office, Less paper office, digital filing
Automated Accounts Payable And Invoice Processing Generate Savings and Gain Productivity
Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Aug 31, 2016 @ 18:08 PM
One of the great benefits of technology available to businesses today is being able to automate what was commonly a routine process which in a manual paper based world has taken extra time.
Read MoreTopics: workflow processes, running costs, cloud computing, Scanning, document filing, document storage strategy, software tools, business processes, paper filing, Paperless office, Less paper office, digital tools, AP Automation
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.
Read MoreTopics: business processes, Paperless office, Less paper office
The landscape for ownership in the printer and MFP business is constantly changing as the field matures further and the impacts of digital vehicles continue.
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For many years businesses have been told that they can improve their processes by reducing paper use and going digital in their information flows. For some reason the paperless workplace still does not seem to have traction in most businesses.
Certainly there have been steps taken to reduce paper, often in places like invoicing and issuing of account statements. Sometimes it has been in correspondence since the email has definitely overtaken the formal paper letter for much of the daily correspondence of most operations. Even with these changes the paperless workplace does not seem to be entrenched however.
I sometimes talk about the less paper office instead. It seems to me that this is achievable in most operations and with some effort it can lead to a substantial reduction in costs and also it can lead to a reduction in time expended carrying out daily transactions.
In a recent blog article John Mancini asks the question, "Is a paper-free workplace possible?".
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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.
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
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.
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.
Topics: Scanning, document filing, document storage strategy, paper filing, Less paper office