Green Business Solutions

One of the most prominent ways businesses have moved to green their day-to-day affairs is through improved and increasingly virtual records and document management. Paper usage in America alone is still at an outrageously high level, and moving towards the ever-elusive "paperless office" is perhaps the best chance we have to cut back on wasteful business proecesses. There was an article posted last week to KMWorld.com discussing the environmentally friendly benefits of EDM, or even a more traditional professional document management program.

From the article:

"Many knowledge management solutions, including records management (RM) and enterprise content management (ECM), reduce the use of paper. In addition, online collaboration and online meeting solutions can greatly cut down on the need for travel to meetings. Although reducing the carbon footprint of IT centers is also important, transportation accounts for 33 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the Energy Information Administration. That contrasts to just 2 percent accounted for by information and communication technology, according to figures from Gartner, so savings in travel has a larger potential impact on the environment."