- from anywhere
The world has come a long way since Guttenberg, who revolutionized information sharing by inventing the printing press. To work efficiently today you need easy access to up-to-date business knowledge, not only your personal e-mails, but all the information gathered by your entire organization.
Whenever you are in contact with a customer or a supplier, you need immediate access to contracts, quotes, orders, confirmations, QA issues, etc. Only then you are able to serve him or her in the way they deserve, and in the way that is profitable to your organization.
Or for those of your customers who are able to help themselves, you may need to make information available on-line, but still in a secure channel. And your employees, if it is not already the case, will soon need to be able to do their job from any local office, from home, or even from the airport. Easily and securely.
How we fit in
Noone can question the fact that shifting from manual and paper based to electronic business processes will reduce your dependency of the physical paper, and also reduce your operational costs. The reduced costs are however a very small part of the big picture.
New and optimized business processes based on a centralized electronic business archive, and structured workflow processes, will optimize your business efficiency, and improve your organizational flexibility and scalability dramatically.
In the most recent 25/7 Magazine you may read how DHL moved their business archives from Arizona in the USA to Prague in the Czech Republic: That is true flexibility.
Marimekko
When Marimekko, an international fashion group, moved from paper based to electronic business processes, they immediately cut costs. Even more importantly the new electronic business archive allows business unit managers and assistants to work with business documents from anywhere in the world.
The same freedom is valuable to internal and external designers working together across country borders and time zones in order to create the future Marimekko designs, with valuable inspiration from the historical design archive.
“The future is present in everything that we do. Although business is slower now in the global recession, we are not putting on the brakes in development projects; on the contrary, we put the pedal to the metal”, says Thomas Ekström, CFO of Marimekko.
A typical example of how freedom of access generates new value and at the same time reduces costs.
Read more about the Marimekko case here.
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