If paperless is so good…

... then why don't we embrace it? Why has it taken so long for organizations to move paperless? Why is it that we are not willing to make the leap to maintain all of our information in formats other than paper? The simple answer is that a good portion of our information is contained in areas other than paper. We have implemented paperless management systems such as email, customer contact databases and enterprise resource planning systems. Virtually all office workers, managers and employees, have a computer at their desk. Information more and more is being managed in ways other than paper. More information is communicated via email, instant messaging, blogs, wikis, and newsgroups than is being communicated via traditional post. Organizations are embracing the paperless office. In fact, often times, organizations have more paperless information that they know how to manage.  With the information stored in multiple databases, on multiple servers and on multiple desktop computers, information is more difficult to find now than ever. Add to that the amount of paper that is still being utilized for the transmission of information, there has never been a time in history that strong document storage, retrieval and retention policies have been more important than right now. Think of the information that you maintain in your organization. What is your policy on storing those documents? How do you maintain them? How do you search them? How do you destroy those you don’t need? If you don’t have a good answer to those questions, you better get one.

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Corey Smith is the co-founder to Resumango where you can build a better resume for free.