Myth of the Paperless Office

An environmental news website - Grist - has a feature on their website about environmentally trends that picked up speed in their industries because in addition to saving resources, they also help vendors safe time and money. The first example used was a more effective piping system in Shanghai carpeting manufacturers. The second, is the paperless office. The author points out many of the ideas I've discussed here at the GRM Blog - that EDM can save your company money, increase productivity and cut back on wasted time and energy - referencing specifically a book that highlighted these concepts particularly well, The Myth of the Paper Office.

From the article:

Deployed properly, document management software may not create a paperless office, but it can create an office that uses less paper, and do so as a side effect of improving productivity. It does this because developers now understand that computers can improve retrieval, sharing, and collaborative work on documents, but remain an inferior medium for reading long documents from start to finish. Computers are better for collaborative markup, but worse for editing by a single person. While they are better for retrieval based on key words, they are worse for intuition-driven searching through key documents.