What are you doing with your business D D K?
Documents
We have been storing our documents in network shared drives for a very long time. The system of a shared drive works well enough, but is lacking in dramatic ways that ultimately cost you and your business a whole lot of money and time.
Data
You and your business depend on data. Data comes from everywhere and is stored pretty much everywhere. Data stored in spreadsheets. Data stored in databases. Data stored in attachments hidden in someone’s email inbox. OMG Where is all the data? Answer: Everywhere!!!
Does this sound like you and your business? Sure, it does. It’s the way we have been storing documents and data for 30 years. Locating a document, or a snippet of data is a wondrous, magical thing that happens every day and no one really knows how.
It’s a wonder that we can locate what we need, when we need it.
I’m convinced that we manage to get things done by sheer will and muscle.
Things get done, simply because they must get done.
Knowledge
What is your business strategy for storing knowledge? The stuff you and your experienced team know, and will know in the future. Do you have a tool-set or process to store and retrieve the vast amounts of knowledge you have amassed? What? You have no means of storing knowledge?
You may feel that gathering and storing knowledge would be nearly impossible, and for that reason you haven’t done so, yet.
That is a good excuse. But I am here to tell you that you can start collecting and using knowledge, and make use of it every single day. Starting now. Using stored knowledge can increase productivity, ensure greater success and save you gobs of time and money.
In my next post, I will share with you 2 easy ways to start gathering and using the knowledge of your team, right away.
By gathering and making knowledge accessible in 2 key ways, you can decrease document and data search time, and increase productivity.
What if I could help you save each person in your organization 10 minutes per week by making your documents, data and knowledge more accessible? Imagine how much money that counld save a 20, 100, 1000 person organization?
Here is a clue:
The two Cs of knowledge storage: Context and Collections
I’ll explain later. Watch for my next post (Click here to read it now)
Tom Vorves Collaboration Evangelist
tom@tomvorves.com