Keeping every member of a project team up-to-date and informed is significant task for any project manager. Across the team, different groups use different specialized software applications to do their work. Often it’s left to unstructured and uncontrolled means like email and shared network folders to share files and connect the team. Our approach has always been to unify project...
It’s no surprise that the new document preview technology built into the latest release of Document Locator is garnering accolades from users of the document management system. Being able to simply click on a file and see what’s inside without opening it first is a huge time saver. Images, emails, documents, spreadsheets - file types of most all kinds can be...
Creating a simple document workflow - a series of repeatable process steps where files are passed for review, approval, filing, and more, is as simple as step-by-step configuration using document management software inside Windows. The importance of document workflow can’t be understated where office productivity is concerned. Many typical office tasks are by nature repeatable, and they are made far more...
Much attention has been paid to the arrival of eBooks and other paperless ways of learning in schools. Yet another paperless revolution is also occurring quietly at colleges and universities, this one in the administration. It's improving the efficiency of education with a transition to paperless business practices using document management software. Schools and universities, much like any other company or...
Policies and procedures represent the underpinning of an orderly, efficient, and regulatory-compliant business. They are vitally important where regulatory controls and compliance are a concern. However, managing policies and procedures have long been considered complex and burdensome. Oversight, change management, communication, and the many other tasks involved with policy and procedure management are made even more complicated when this process is...
Schools are one place where there is (was in some cases) a lot of paper. Students are having no problem jumping on the paperless bandwagon. eBooks and iPads in place of heavy text books are a no-brainer for anyone not wanting a back-ache. Now, administrators behind the inner-workings of schools where back office student files abound are going paperless too. The...
"If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks," With this rather powerful statement the Pentagon commented on their first formal cyber strategy, which concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war. This is the first time the US has considered answering with traditional military force...
Remember my article about productivity and efficiency improvements? Have I got another one for you! If your employees need a refresher or an introduction to TQM principles, I highly recommend the video Modern Chairs. In a little more than 10 min you are treated to one of the best summaries of TQM (Total Quality Management) principles, including an excursion into lean...
Things change. But change, while often good, usually also means additional work. In our current economic climate, we have to achieve more with less. Increasing our efficiency and productivity becomes a top priority. Many companies focus on supply chain optimization as discussed in ProcurementLeaders. KPMG noted that consumer companies worldwide report that “improvements in supply chain efficiency are critical to growth...
Our document imaging partner Kodak isn't kidding when they say digitizing a whirlwind of documents just got easier. Recently our document management engineers here had a chance to take Kodak's i4600 scanner on a test drive with Document Locator. The scanner munches through stacks of sheets at a speed of 120-pages per minute, a rate that can easily convert many...
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