The Datamax Thinking Blog

One of the global leaders in photography for decades is not just for family portraits anymore. As the world has become increasingly reliant on technology, Canon has improved the technological products and services that it offers. The most widely discussed of these services is the document management system support. The company’s software and equipment allows for efficient and high-quality scanning of large quantities of documents. Once the papers have been digitized, the program also gives options for how to organize this information.

In the printing industry production costs can be ridiculous, much like all other industries and ultimately fail throughout the development because of different advances in technology and production efficiency. It has become apparent to business owners now more than ever that sustainability is the key to the success of a product or a product process.

At your office, you are surrounded by electronic and digital devices. Over time you get new equipment, and the question of what to do with the old unusable devices comes up. This electronic waste (or eWaste) isn’t just a compilation of old plastic glass and metals. There are harmful toxins, hazardous substances and dangerous materials being tossed into the environment when these get thrown out. Lead, mercury, and arsenic is absorbed into the soil and air.

Time management is a key element--if not the key element--in productivity. Finding ways to increase productivity in less time should be something you evaluate regularly. Are you being as efficient as possible? What can you do to make sure your time is being spent on the most important things and not being wasted? If we could tell you that we could eliminate one task from your job entirely- at no extra cost to you, you would probably be interested in hearing about it.

While running a company there are many “think” meetings about ways to increase business, reduce costs and make work flow more efficient. During these meetings I’m sure document storage has been brought up in some form or another.

Have you ever analyzed how much money your company spends on printing?

Running a business is all about finding new innovations to allow work to flow faster and to cut down man-hours spent on one project. Optical character recognition (OCR) is a program that can do that.

Electronics--they seem to always break down at the most inconvenient times.

You may not realize this, but we have access to more data and information today than we could ever go through in a lifetime. We have a massive amount of information happening everywhere, which is no surprise. The question we need to ask ourselves is how do we leverage this information to be pertinent in our day-to-day lives.