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Office Spring Cleaning Improves SMB Productivity By Laurie Shufeldt, FileVision
May 16, 2007
Article: Spring Cleaning
Traditionally enterprise content management (ECM) systems help organize and maintain office information for large corporations. However, for non-enterprise size companies like small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), without sophisticated systems and processes in place, organization of information is a challenge that affects everything from productivity to cluttered filing cabinets and desks to loss of profits.
One way to alleviate these ongoing pain points, in addition to improving efficiency, is for SMBs to spring clean their offices, much of the same way they would clean their homes seasonally to clear away the clutter and bring in a much-needed sense of organization. The below tips offer advice for removing office productivity clutter by eliminating inefficient data storage and improving workflow processes.
Whether it is electronic files scattered across the network or stacks of paperwork that need to be processed and filed, disorganization can cut productivity rates in half. Since data comes from different sources and often has different uses within a company, to be accessible it must be organized and easy to reference and update.
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Laurie Shufeldt is the Vice President of Business Development at FileVision. Laurie Shufeldt joined FileVision in 2001, bringing more than 14 years of information technology industry expertise. With FileVision, Laurie helps SMB customers, especially those in the healthcare, financial services and government industries, bridge the gap between digital content and paper documents, helping them to intelligently link and match documents to important data objects such as people, companies, processes and assets, resulting in improved communications, enhanced customer service and immediate access to information and relationships within the data. Laurie's professional experience includes a versatile background in consultative sales, technology analysis and implementation, customer training and market analysis with a focus on the technology system integrator channel and the enterprise market. Shufeldt has a bachelor's degree in economics from Georgia Southern College and an associate degree in public administration from Middle Georgia College.

