Whatever Happened to the Paperless Society?
Interesting article this month in Financial Executives magazine on “Whatever Happened to the Paperless Society?” Predicted in 1978, we clearly are not there, yet the case for going paperless offers a long list of benefits most of which will result in cost savings as well. It’s a moving target and it is moving forward. Chaz Miller, director of state programs for the Environmental Industry Associations in DC, wrote that it is doubtful that society will ever become paperless “…but a less-paper society is inevitable”. Automating paper-intensive operations is a core part of business today and the benefits of improving performance and reducing costs go hand-in-hand with a company’s green initiative.
Interesting. Business continuously aspires to all things better, cheaper, smarter, faster. These business imperatives are rarely met with paper. An estimated 90 percent of information is digitally created from existing technology systems, yet it’s frequently printed and used in paper form. No wonder eliminating paper is so elusive.
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for centuries we have handled paper. we created processes for ensuring that actions are taken, things get ordered, bills are paid and records are kept. There were people that made their careers out of making sure that information flowed and business kept moving – we called them administrators, assistants, or secretaries. There were a lot of them. We needed a document or record, they knew where it was filed or archived. Nowadays, we have the same requirement and we do a fair job tracking the information that is created in or attached to SAP. The extraneous, but critical information, like emails, word docs, notes, etc are not well managed and are often lost when need them and found when we thought they had been destroyed.