document management

New studies show SharePoint continuing to grow as a tool to let end users share documents securely. Unfortunately, most of them seem to feel entitled to take those documents out of SharePoint security and even mail them to third parties, removing all security permanently.

Small business owners and managers have a common reaction when someone, usually a salesperson, suggests going paperless and jumping into electronic document management: they cover their ears, start screaming “la la la I can't hear you,” and run out of the room. So don't say “electronic document management” but say “use our scanner to reduce clutter and save money.” Bosses pull their hands away from their ears when they hear “save money” and you can leverage the scanner on your MFP to ease into document management, I mean, reduce clutter.

A small thought experiment for you on this bright but chilly winter's morning. In your hand you have a 40 page document. On your computer screen you have an electronic document open in a word processor. You have been told they they are "the same document". How can you tell? What does it even mean to say that they are the "same"?