The Datamax Thinking Blog

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.

There are few things more apparent than having low morale on the job. We aren't merely making reference to just a few individuals with negative attitudes; we are making reference to the whole company that has been bothered by a condition associated with poor morale. This could have a very profound influence on the level of work that is finished on a specific day or week and will also have a negative effect on customer relationships. Just how can a workplace avoid their employees from slipping right into a low morale snare?

Pursuing a purely digital document storage solution as a company is difficult. It is undoubtedly easier in theory and needs significant consideration with regards to strategic planning and execution within the company.