Business Process Outsourcing Blog

Learn all about document scanning - what it is, who it's beneficial for, what the applications are, what quality scanning is and looks like, when it's a good time to implement it in your organization, and how to select a scanning partner.

There are a lot of things to consider before scanning lab notebooks. How sensitive is the information? Is it legally protected? How many pages need to be digitized? How will the information be used and shared in the future? Answering these questions for yourself will help you find a complete scanning solution.

With Earth Day around the corner on April 22, now is the perfect time to think about changes you can make around your business to reduce your environmental impact. While there are many earth-friendly practices you could implement, there’s one change you can make that will have a positive impact on the environment and on your bottom line: going paperless.

With commercial real estate costs continuing to rise year over year, prices are getting prohibitively expensive for many companies, especially in places like New York City and Boston. Today NYC prices are second only to San Francisco in terms of cost per square foot. Real estate costs have a significant impact on the bottom lines of businesses like yours, and often, the space you’re paying such a premium for is being wasted.

World Paper Free Day encourages people to go paperless for a day. Why go paperless? By going paperless, you can reduce the number of trees that are cut down and used to manufacture paper products.

By now, you probably know the advantages of going paperless: instantaneous document retrieval, improved efficiency, cost-savings, searchable text, reduced space needs, more easily meeting compliance guidelines, etc. But how do you do it? Should you outsource the scanning of your documents to a local scanning company or do it yourself (DIY) by investing in people, equipment and software? Or should you consider some combination of both outsourcing and DIY?

Are your offices feeling cramped? As your organization grows, it’s only natural that your once spacious branch or headquarters will quickly begin to feel less roomy. Before you consider relocating to a larger space, ask yourself this: have you really outgrown your office or could you make some strategic changes to utilize your square footage better?