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Eight Ways to Keep Your Office Clutter-Free

Ian's Messy Desk

Working at an organizations’ head office, we see a lot of paper. When the HVAC system was installed, someone thought we might want the user manual for the system: a 400 page PDF document. Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday.

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Eight Ways to Eliminate Paper and Clutter in Your Office

Ian's Messy Desk

When the HVAC system was installed, someone thought we might want the user manual for the system: a 400 page PDF document. Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday or at least until someone cleans out those files. Personnel and payroll records.

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Business and IT - Adversaries or Partners?

Small Business CEO

A poor relationship with IT can be extremely detrimental to the efficiency, productivity and cost-effectiveness of your organization. Watch for some of these warning situations: • Everyone knows HR cuts payroll checks, and finance pays vendors. IT is regularly in a reactive mode. • IT has its own jargon.

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Three Tips - Preparing for Economic Recovery

Small Business CEO

Others enter the data into payroll, into project tracking systems and then again into client billing systems. Commit your organization to whatever portion of these tips is feasible. Increase productivity so initial growth can be absorbed by existing employees. A lab order is faxed in. Then a coordinator searches for the patient.

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Control Expenses – Automate Process Through Workflow Software

Small Business CEO

Organizations typically rely on a combination of major systems and manual transactions that are done off system. How many of you find that new employees don’t get equipment or security access on time, are missing their name plate or aren’t set up in payroll? Many of us have compliance requirements as well.