A process flow document can help eliminate confusion, create consistency, and provide a roadmap for unknown territory. To create these essential tools, you first should know when to use a process flow document, what components they contain, and how you …
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Shocking but unsurprising: the average office worker spends upwards of a quarter of their time simply looking for documents. And that’s just documents that are correctly filed—each misfiled document costs companies an average of $120 in labor just to find …
Document management may not be the most glamorous part of business, but it is an essential and fundamental practice for any enterprise. Whether you have two employees or two thousand, your business uses documents. While some businesses elect to manage …
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Until the 1960s, libraries still used card catalogs to index their collections. While OCLC stopped printing card catalogs in 2015, some catalogs are still in use today, such as the card catalog at the Library of Congress. What drove this …
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It’s been around for so long that “email” has taken a place of its own in our lexicon—most people forget that it means “electronic mail.” Along with “email,” terms like “e-commerce” (and its catchier cousin “e-tail”), “e-signature,” and “e-conference” have …
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When you go out, do you leave your front door unlocked? Do you leave your car keys in the visor? Would you even leave an apple pie to cool on the windowsill? Security is worth taking seriously. It’s important to …
Most desk job office workers are familiar with common business applications such as Word, Excel, or customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. Most of these tools and applications have a broad range of functionality that most day-to-day users never encounter. The …
Despite their near ubiquity in offices in the 80s and 90s, fax machines have become a rare sight in today’s world of pure digital communications. Nevertheless, while the machines are now an uncommon find in typical office settings, the use …
Managing documents used to be straightforward: documents were on pieces of paper, and users managed them by keeping them all in order and the correct location. While document management was straightforward, it was anything but simple: as businesses grew, their …
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What’s the most expensive mistake you’ve ever made? If you didn’t measure your answer in hundreds of millions of dollars, you’re doing better than the Japanese company J-Com. When they mistakenly listed 610,000 shares of their stock for 1 yen …
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