Wikipedia defines a natural disaster as “the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide).” Natural disasters are different from natural hazards. A natural hazard turns into a disaster generally when humans are affected by the hazard and are vulnerable to it. For a business organization, this has 2 implications…
DetailsA key indicator of how much impact you can have on environmental degradation is ‘Carbon Footprint’. Carbon Footprint Ltd. defines ‘carbon footprint’ as…
DetailsStartling fact…
#1: Paper generally makes up to 70% of office waste.
#2: Our planet is still losing at least 16.2 million hectares (40 million acres) of forests through logging and land clearing.
#3: The 6.75 billion world population has reached a stage where…
Sohodox document management software is no doubt an immensely useful tool for your small business; but there is much more to managing documents than just scanning documents, signing them, emailing them or publishing them. What eventually helps you keep a tab of all document management activity is the Reporting feature in Sohodox.
How does generating these reports help? Read on…
DetailsMaking use of folders, tags, document types etc. helps you group documents and find them quickly. But what if you want to mark a certain portion within the document as say, “Done” so that your colleagues don’t waste time reading the entire document? Or say you want to insert a bookmark on a document so that you know the next time where you stopped reading the document last time? Well, the answer to this is…
DetailsIn our previous post we discussed why you should evaluate document management software. Here, we will look at the ‘how’ of it…
DetailsCan you imagine buying a $20,000 car without test-driving it first? The car would serve you for several years. In addition to its purchase price, you would also need to spend on its fuel, insurance, maintenance etc. You want to be sure that the model you are about to buy is the right one for you! Well, the same principle applies to…
DetailsScanning documents is one of the first things done when using electronic document management software to improve your work processes. A major dilemma faced by small business owners is: whether to destroy paper based documents or to retain them; and if retain them, then for how long?
Once you have converted the paper based documents to electronic form, you should…
DetailsThis is your week! May 16-20 is US National Small Business Week. Here are some interesting facts about small business in the US…
DetailsThere is a clear distinction between small businesses and medium-to-large firms when it comes to size; but not so, when it comes to the line of business. Small businesses as well as large corporations might be sailing the same boat. That’s why it’s important to ensure that even if you operate…
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