Paperless Office?

Is it Possible?

By: Barbara Hemphill

  While predictions of the paperless office began more than 10 years ago, statistics show that 90 percent of the world’s information is still on paper. Can this change? Will it?       After spending more than 20 years in offices of all sizes, from one-person home-based businesses to the offices of the largest corporations in the world, I contend that a more important question is “Can you find the information you need when you need it — regardless of the form it takes?”

  I have yet to find a company that was able to manage its electronic information effectively without first learning to manage the paper. Why?  Because we haven’t addressed four fundamental questions of information management. (1) What information do we need to keep or create? (2) In what form?  (3) By whom?  (4) For how long? 

  The ability of any individual or organization to accomplish any given task or reach any desired goal is directly related to the ability to find the right information at the right time. Unfortunately, statistics show that the average worker spends

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