There are Many Alternatives To Paper Computer Output
We have all seen advertisements for modern technologies like the shirt-pocket iPhone. It can access and display an unlimited amount of information from around the world in near real time. It can contain its own offline large database of information. My doctor has the Physician’s Desk Reference (a huge book of prescription pharmaceuticals) on his shirt-pocket mobile cell phone. He cannot remember everything – His cell phone is an extension of his memory that is MUCH MORE EFFICIENT, than carrying around a 5-inch-thick that was expensively published months ago.
Obviously, we have unprecedented low-cost information access on our desktops, laptops, personal digital assistants, and tablet-based computing systems. We can wear gigabytes of data on a small USB memory stick around our neck. When physical packages are delivered by FedEx or UPS, they use hand-held computers with wireless connections, instead of old-fashioned paperwork.
Your company should STOP printing newsletters. You should immediately cancel ALL of your subscriptions to newspapers, magazines and phone books.
There are new mechanisms that can help you reduce junk snail mail (like pre-approved credit applications). Some mechanisms even place an expensive junk mail elimination burden on the sender. In Australia, environmentally-conscious consumers tell fast-food vendors: “No worry the bag” (which I find refreshing and cute).
Initially, after a specified short period of time, every company should eliminate all computer printers, copiers and fax machines, except ONE – located as far as possible from everyone. It should be very-slow speed. Individuals who send anything to these machines must record their usage, and $1 per page should be deducted from their salary. (Chuckle)
Do you think THAT might bring about some rapid changes in paper elimination?
If we phased in a $1 per page tax on every piece of office paper, would all businesses screech to a halt? ABSOLUTELY NOT! We would be forced to implement ESI. Business would accelerate and become much more productive and profitable.
Vendors who want our company’s business must comply with our paperless solutions, and as a result, we will expect them to charge us less for their products and services.
When you see a piece of paper in your organization, it should be a RED FLAG to you, and especially the organization’s empowered “paper elimination innovator.” Paper is a measure of COST and UNPRODUCTIVITY. In today’s electronic age, paper is a bad habit addiction that is long overdue for termination, with prejudice.
Some people say that “technology has failed to fulfill the 1970’s promise of a paperless society.”
It MUST be made totally clear that this is NOT a failure of technology – Many committed companies HAVE accomplished the valuable goal. The total failure in MOST organizations is the curmudgeons who get up today and conduct business-as-usual, just like the bad habits they developed decades ago. The problem is NOT technology. It is (1) corporate politics, (2) stovepipe departmental isolation and disorganization, (3) resistance to change, and (4) a general lack of basic business integration education. AFTER the organization leaders wake up to competitive reality, off-the-shelf technology and ESI methodology can implement solutions rather quickly TODAY.
Perhaps YOU will be the aggressive innovator who will set the ball in motion in your enterprise.
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In the 21st century, no other Enterprise Systems Integration Methodology even comes close, although many others have tried and failed.
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