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…
A key indicator of how much impact you can have on environmental degradation is ‘Carbon Footprint’. Carbon Footprint Ltd. defines ‘carbon footprint’ as…
Startling 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…
Making 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…
In our previous post we discussed why you should evaluate document management software. Here, we will look at the ‘how’ of it…
Scanning 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…
This is your week! May 16-20 is US National Small Business Week. Here are some interesting facts about small business in the US…
There 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…
No matter which part of the world you live in, as a small business or independent professional, you would have to pay tax and file your returns every year. That’s an inescapable truth! Most people hate the process of filing a return more than…
With the arrival of advanced computing devices and social media, the amount of information you need to manage for your business today is just mind-boggling. Although this means you can now easily convert your paper documents into digital formats, you still need to manage these digitized documents efficiently as they contain precious business information. Thanks…