By Matt Gordon
Throughout my career which began in the late 1970’s, I’ve had the firsthand privilege of bringing numerous and contemporary technological advancements to local businesses of all kinds.
Those advancements have included copiers which output onto plain ol’ sheet cut paper (versus the former sticky and curly roll paper), to the advent of facsimile systems, email, and electronic methods of information storage and more.
The plain paper copier for instance, reduced for businesses the cost of making copies by eliminating the costly chemical coating on the paper they once needed. Others embraced eliminating special delivery and overnight delivery service fees while speeding up their businesses communications to almost instantaneous through the use of facsimile transmission of documents, while more recently email has taken instant communication and document distribution to the next level.
Each year brings new ways to produce, distribute, save, and incorporate vital business information into the workplace. All designed by minds greater than mine, to speed up, improve, reduce costs, and make easier the day to day processes required to run a successful business, organization or agency.
Just as the product offerings, methods and services your business offers evolve with the times, so do those available to you as a user or consumer of technology.
An open mind to “a better way” is often what separates a “no-brainer” from what was once “a hassle” in your business; an integral part of your process from what was once a bottleneck in your system. In short technology is a large ingredient in making an efficient, successful and profitable enterprise from one which could easily be handicapped under the weight of its own workload and business processes.
Thank technology, and those that provide and present it to you for those enlightenments.
If your business suffers from workflow challenges, ranging from year-end file storage, to page production and distribution headaches, or simply seek a cost-containment strategy (I refer to it as a “profit re-capture”) of your office costs call us at 951-961-5511 for a no-cost consultation.
It’s not all about the paper document anymore.
Matt Gordon began his career in the office equipment industry in 1977, and has been a regional technical trainer, a branch manager and marketing representative focusing on providing better business processes at a lower costs to industry, government, and education.