tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53459017314414350832011-11-27T16:37:50.717-08:00Our thoughts are that your information should be at your fingertips. Information should be managed so that you can access what you need when you need it. Talk to our Mountain Scanners consulting team and learn more. This is a resource for our consultants to share their info with you.Mountain Scannershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445146594509049990noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345901731441435083.post-17477190714244437542011-09-12T09:17:00.000-07:002011-09-12T09:17:49.717-07:00

What are you doing!? Are you working at your business or on your business? What is the difference? Working AT your business. Punch in, get to the tasks at hand and punch out. Working ON your business. Where are you, where are your going and how will you get there? For a small business owners, GMs or CEO you have to work at your business, but to grow your business you need to

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Life in the mountains.  Ahhhhhh Doing business in the mountains.  Arrrggggg Face to face time is still essential to business.  I guess we could video chat but it is not the same as a good sales pitch and a hand shake. The things that are needed for presentations like monitors, computers, projectors, samples, information sheets, price lists, credit apps, well the list goes on all need to

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Just by clicking on this and reading this short post tells me that you are searching for some competitive advantage to what  you are doing now and you are trying to figure out how to make the future brighter. No, it is not a Coors product for business. Did you think SharePoint was or is your Silver Bullet? I have heard support payables for SharePoint exceed the purchase price for the software

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What is most important asset to manage in your SMB? Information – Build an information management strategy based on your informational governance framework. It will position your business for growth. Here’s how… Target: Business owners without a CIO. The role of a CIO: Chief Information Officer is responsible for reducing the overload of the sum of information and increasing the throughput of the

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What if you could access all of your files on your cell phone.  Would an iPad help you at work?  What if your business forms were all digital?  What if you could cut down your keystrokes?  How about using a scanner to process invoices?  How about real time data transfer on a secure site that you can access anywhere or any time? WORK SMARTER-  Is a phrase that you hear and say to yourself that

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Hi and welcome to the Super Bowl of Businesses! VS. Mature  vs. Young New vs. Old "Always on the move" vs. "up the middle slow and go" Restrictive vs. Agile Making adjustments in the field vs. Getting to the office to decide In House vs. In The Cloud No vs. Yes IT Here we go.  It is the First quarter of a long game for 2011.  Who will win?  Either side plays the game very differently.  I see

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I just read a "How To" article.  Most of what I read are information management topics.  As I read, I felt that it started slow and then skipped the middle and ended real fast.  I am in the industry and I could understand what I was reading, but thought that if someone outside of the industry where to read this it would go right over their head.  The opportunity to connect with a potential

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I have recently started to think that every company "levels off".  They hit a plateau and stay there.  So then I ask "Why?".  Why does this happen, and why do other companies, doing the same thing, grow?   One of my conclusions is that these companies have different tolerances for risk or change.  RISK is the four letter word.  Let me explain.    Would your business invest, let's say, 10k

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VAR This is a term tossed around my industry.  Does VAR mean anything to you? Maybe it means "Value at Risk"? Maybe it is a variable in Java script? How about "Value added Reseller"? Any clearer?  Not to me either.  I'm in the software industry and in the software industry a VAR is a Value Added Reseller.  BLAH BLAH BLAH.  Still means nothing to the costumer. So I thought that I would

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Businesses today are finding their "New Normal".  The feeling that we have hit the bottom and now it is time to prepare for the future is something that I am hearing of more and more.  Still, some are saying that we have not hit the bottom yet, but for the most part there is a growing concern for business in the future.  Here we are today and how will we or should we prepare for the future.

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Most people today get what a PDF is.  Most people my not know that it stands for Portable Document Format.  A PFD is a product of Adobe.  This document format is easy to share because any computer user can get a free PDF reader from Adobe.  So yes Adobe has made it is easy to create, send, and open PDF documents. The word portable is something of a perspective issue for me.  Seems I'm sitting in

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Newton had it right. Outside forces change the direction of a business. Companies that don't evaluate themselves internally until outside forces act upon the company are doomed. If you were to just look at company investments, I use this a bit loosely, personnel, computers, and print/fax/scan machines, you have all of the components needed to increase productivity and accuracy. Most companies

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By Jon Zalinski / Mountain Scanners I wanted to shed some light on Enterprise Content Management.  I hope to answer a few questions like...What is it?  What does it do?  Why should I consider it?  and How can I justify that purchase? I'd like to start with a sample company.  Let's say this company has downsized recently because business is a bit slower. Most companies today have computers

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by Jon Zalinski at Mountain Scanners 1. Customer Service2. Technology3. Quality4. Cost Management5. Delivery If you were to improve these 5 areas of your organization, you would gain a competitive advantage.  I would venture to say that customer satisfaction and sales would would go up.  I will add some ideas to each of these 5 areas. 1. Customer Service- Ask your customers.  They will tell you.

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Kirk Tracy and Jon Zalinski  OR    Most would say, "No".  We have talked with several organizations and companies about how they do business today, and we have found that they are still using methods from the 1940s and 50s.  Ok, the typewriter is replaced with a computer, but their paper process is the same.  Look over our findings and see where you find yourself. • 1) 50% have little or no

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There is a growing awareness what Mountain Scanners is able to do for medium to large scale companies. We are seeing a growing trend with companies trying to use technology to improve their productivity, and gain a competitive advantage in their market.  Because our focus was on the medium to large business customers, we really didn't have a product that would help the small business until we

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  Our company started by taking Customer paper records from closed transactions and converting the documents to microfilm images in the 1970's...in almost every case the suggested retention schedule for the records was 'permanent retention'-Court Cases or Orders signed by the Judge (SBJ), Medical Records, signed by the Physician, Human Resources personnel data-stuff that could not be thrown away,

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Better Business Processes by Kirk Tracy "We see a lot of mix between analog and digital processes in records management today. For instance, you can access forms or applications on a website but you need to print the application out to complete and sign. Chances are pretty good that as the application is processed, it will be scanned and once again become a digital document. This illustrates

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Your business might have more potential. How would I know that? I could speculate, but there is nothing to measure with speculation. Potential in my business? Where? How can I have more potential? There is potential in your bottom line. Now I have got you listening. Potential is driven by money. Money moves people and ideas. So I guess I should say “Potential Money”. Now you’re

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If you feel HIPAA is changing the way it is being audited or you feel that the rules are changing as we speak, the answer is.......You are right! HIPAA and HITECH have rolling changes that you should be aware of. This are a few points that you should ask your legal department about. Fines have increase which fund the auditing of HIPAA compliancy. Be aware and be ready. Here are a few

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Paper Retention-Mystery of our AgeBy Kirk Tracy/ Owner of Mountain ScannersI do not understand the process of putting a closed file in a file cabinet, then a box, then a storage area as many people do at the end of the year. You are essentially saving the paper but trapping or hiding the data into storage limbo, highlighted by slow and inaccurate retrieval.Using paper as a medium to manage

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Enterprise Content ManagementJon ZalinskiIn my previous life, I was a Vice President of a company that had several facets to its income stream. I understand the challenge of trying to optimize those streams as they are being calculated in the planning of the company’s movement. There are several factors to the planning and the direction of movement of a company.Our company was small enough that

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Acronyms Executive Officiers Use:As an officer of your company, you may find yourself trying not only to keep up with the information that is available each day, but also the acronyms. In 2009 the acronyms that keep entering into the vocabulary of the upper level management are BPM, ECM, CRM, BI, SaaS, and I am sure there are a few more. Why is there such an emergence of these? When was the last

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