As the year winds down, it’s time for small businesses to wrap up the end-of-year tasks and prepare for tax season. While many important reports and documentation won’t be ready until the actual end of the year, you should start planning now. If your business uses a good document management system, your year-end work should go smoothly and your tax preparation team will love how easy you make filing your taxes for them. Be sure you have your accounting ducks in a row with the following checklist.
What You Need to Know About BYOD and Mobile Security for Millennials
Back when dinosaurs roamed the corporate earth, employers issued hand-helds that could synchronize with in-house servers. Fairly-smart phones were also issued strictly for business use. Then arrived the Millennials who came to work pre-loaded with smart and mobile devices as outgrowths of their anatomies. They realized they could meld their work duties with their personal electronics thinking the IT department would never be the wiser. And no one lived happily ever after.
How are Millennials Changing B2B Payments?
Demographically, the oldest Millennial (a.k.a. Gen Y) is 36 this year. The youngest is about 20. These are the adults for whom digital technology is a given, not the dream-under-construction as it was for Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers at the same life stage. At 35, this group is of the age and level of prosperity to now take over the department management reins as the Boomers age out and the Xers step off the elevator into the C suite.
Managing Millennials Requires Rethinking Human Resources
Creating a document management workflow that works for Millennials may be a tough task for any department, but in a high-touch area like Human Resources, it becomes a gargantuan task that could include retooling every step of your hiring, onboarding and employee communication process. Millennials expect that all the information they need should be right at their fingertips, and their first opportunity to judge their fit within an organization is during the hiring process. How can you assure that your process in millennial-friendly?
Millennials are Changing Document Management in the Workplace
The move toward paperless offices has made document management that much more important, and Millennials are often the ones driving that business decision. You might be surprised to find that far from dismissing print, Millennials tend to print as much or more than individuals age 36 and up. While these digital natives are a very mobile-centric demographic, they still tend to enjoy the printed page, even going so far as to print documents from home.
Get Organized With These Tips for Document Management
One of the most frustrating things about maintaining an office is rifling through massive amounts of files searching for documents. Not only is this stressful and frustrating, but it can affect work performance because you are working harder, yet producing less. The goal of an efficient office is to work smart, which allows you to accomplish your goals without the stress.
EDGE Business Systems named Xerox Partner of the Year
Strong partnerships are what make businesses thrive and continue to grow year after year, and when partners go out of their way to recognize your excellent work, that’s the kind of good news that you want to share with the world. At EDGE Business Systems, we are delighted to announce that we are once again Xerox’s Partner of the Year for Document Management Solutions.
Continued Innovations to Document Management
The processes for document management evolve almost as rapidly as the development of new and exciting electronic devices. Going from clay tablets in a stack to files of paper stored in cabinets took several thousand years, but going from acres of cabinets, each suitable to hold less than a thousand files, to computer servers, each capable of receiving, storing and retrieving millions of files only took a few decades.
Document Management is Changing the Future of Businesses
Today, businesses find themselves standing at a crossroads facing a critical decision. With some markets shrinking and others exploding, change is in the air. One constant element within every business, no matter how small or how large, how old or how new, is document management. With efficient systems in place, a constricting market can be endured until economic activity rebounds, but with old, paper-laden structures, growing businesses can’t make the most of a bountiful business uptick.
Going Paperless with Document Management is Good for the Environment
If your business is searching for ways to go green and become more environmentally friendly, going paperless is not only beneficial for the environment but beneficial for you and your customers as well. Technological advancements, such as a document management system, make it easy to be economically friendly. Making the switch to document management not only allows you to save a lot of trees, but there are other benefits as well. Here are just a few of the ways going paperless can help your business go green.
