Great question! It seems like a simple process to start scanning your documents to go paperless but as one of our clients once said to me "it's so much more than just scanning."
There are a number of products out there that can help you accomplish classifying all your electronic documents and applying bulk processing. There are entry level products available, typically designed for lower volume (500 documents a month), that are price friendly but tend not to be as feature rich as the professional level tools.
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The biggest pain people experience with paperwork is that it stands in the way of them completing their strategic business objectives. That's it, plan and simple.
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It's interesting, I think many people's first reaction to this would be "not in our lifetime" but this question actually reminds me of a story about my niece doing her homework one night. She was doing one of those exercises where you have to find a list of objects in a busy picture of a house and circle them. She got them all done except one, she tried and tried but couldn't find it. It's not that it was hidden particularly well it was because the object she was looking for was a tape recorder and believe it or not most kids today have no idea what a tape recorder is.
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You are right, the technology is available that provides us the tools for going paperless but it also represents a major change in the way we do business. In my experience, the lack of adoption company-wide, comes down to three things; cost, time and a willingness to change.
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Going paperless will save your company thousands of dollars, reduce your effect on the environment, and increase your overall efficiency. Like anything else, however, a paperless office won't be perfect. There are a few challenges of a paperless office that you will face. Fortunately, all of them can be avoided if you know what to do.
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Going paperless is a burgeoning trend in offices throughout the world. If you have considered going paperless, but aren't sure if it's worth the investment, then you should consider the following seven advantages of a paperless office:
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When your business is more productive, you get better results. The best way to enhance productivity is to figure out what is slowing your company down. If your company is still relying on paper, then there are several paper-based business processes that are holding your company back right now. We have listed six such processes below, along with how you can overcome these challenges.
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For centuries, paper has been the dominant means of record keeping and communication. This has always been despite the fact that paper has a significant number of limitations that interfere with your ability to manage your documents. In recent years, however, the limitations of paper as a document management resource have become more glaring as newer technologies are developed to overtake paper as the primary document management resource. Here are seven of the biggest limitations of paper document use that can be easily overcome with a document management system upgrade:
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A popular trend among businesses of all types is to go paperless. By going paperless, companies expect to operate more efficiently and save some money. But how much is your paperless office really helping your company? Fortunately, you don't have to guess at this. Here is how you can measure the impact of going paperless:
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