Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Making Good Decisions

As a parent I know that I have said "make good decisions" to my children and I hope that they do as they go through life. That thought almost becomes more basic, more black and white in the business world. We have spreadsheets that we create to help us make good decisions. We do research on Google and other websites to find out information. We use credit reporting agencies, background checks and we read research reports from industry associations. There is an overwhelming amount of information out there.

So how does this relate to document imaging and document management? For businesses that have been around for a while many decisions are made based on prior experience. The vast majority of that prior experience is trapped in paper documents and in the heads of employees who are still around to remember. One of those known archives can be preserved theoretically forever, while the other lasts until age 65 or the next layoff. Protect your corporate knowledge and history by scanning those business documents.

An amazing amount of highly useful history and data resides in the paper documents that are the "prior experience" of any company. Document imaging, done correctly, can put that experience within instant reach of your employees and new decision makers. It is not someone elses experience that you have read about on google, it is actual experience for your company, real data based on your exact products or services. Don't think of document imaging as just a way to get compliant for business continuity purposes, or a way to go green, think of it as a way to go Black, as in not in the Red. Empower your employees with a tool that will lead to better decisions - convert your critical business documents to digital image.

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