Leading executives, managers, and experts from SMBs and large enterprises share their insights and perspectives with bMighty on a host of IT issues, challenges, and opportunities that small and midsize businesses face.
A smaller business that reduces its use of paper saves money, time, and natural resources. While a truly paperless office is still far off in the future, new technologies are bringing smaller businesses closer to the goal. bMighty spoke to Bill Brikiatis of eCopy, a document imaging software vendor, on how small and midsize businesses can effectively take paper out of much of their workflow and speed their processes at the same time.
bMighty: What advantages do small and midsize businesses have in the effort to go paperless?
Bill Brikiatis: Small and midsize businesses have some significant advantages over larger businesses when it comes to moving to a more paperless existence. Of course, it's a fallacy to think anyone can do away with paper completely. But there's less IT bureaucracy in a small or midsize business. In a larger organization, to bring in new applications, you need to go through reviews, checks, processes, approvals. Small and midsize businesses can be much more nimble with IT projects.
Also, in larger organizations, the resources can mask problems in processes. For example, a large telecom provider had subpoenas and needed to turn over billing records. It used a paper process because the company had enough temps to go through all the paper and do it manually. It didn't have to get creative. It had the resources to maintain the paper processes. Small and midsize businesses can't afford that.
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