Tip #5
Boxes, boxes, boxes. We live in boxes, we work in boxes and we stuff our potential as human beings into invisible boxes.
Sometimes boxes are imposed on us from without; it is what you’re supposed to do. You get stuck operating your business a certain way, its what you’re “supposed” to do, it’s your box.
Then there are the boxes we impose on ourselves, these boxes are imposed from within. Sometimes this occurs because of what society or our industry tells us and we embrace this box, we internalize these messages. But, if we are honest with ourselves, sometimes we voluntarily climb into the box and pull the cover tight because we feel safer in there.
What box are you in? Do you use a share drive (located in a box)for your documents, because that is what you were told to do? What does the share drive do for your business in the way of operational efficiencies? You have no tracking with a share drive; you have no security, no search options. Documents, even when saved as secure in Word or Excel are not truly secured. You have no version control, no reporting capabilities, and who manages the share drive?
What is your core business? What creates growth in your business?
What amount of time and effort is going into managing your share drive of documents? Does this time and effort produce less work, increase communication, assure timely updates, and improve operational efficiencies? Have you had to increase staff to support your share drive? It is easy to climb into the box and hold on tight to the cover. It takes courage to get out of the box and look at alternatives to your operational processes.
The Document Domain, your document library, your documents; one single repository for all your documents, reduction of print, email documents, fax documents, intelligent documents, workflow for your documents, real time inventory for the few documents you have printed, print on demand, distribute and print, chat room, one manage point for all your documents, links for your web documents, complete reporting options and tracking options. This and much more.
If you are interested in getting out of your box, give me a call at MICR Technologies, Inc. 951-353-0010 ext 204 or email me at marshan@ micrtechnologies.com
Marsha Nix, President
Sunwest Document Technologies, Inc
MICR Technologies, Inc.
Quote for the week: Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I’ll understand.
- Chinese Proverb
