Cleaning Up

When I was promoted to the head of our company’s documentation division, I was stupid enough to think that it would be a cushy job. After all, how hard could filing be? Well, let me tell you, it can be very hard when there is no system set in place and all of the documents are printed off and stored in filing boxes in three rooms in the basement of the building!

The first thing I did in my new position was a lot of research into managing all of the documentation that my company gathers on a daily basis. Thankfully not too long into my research I found a Web site that sells document management software. The software was very user friendly and was and running in no time.

Once that was put into place, I needed to tackle the backlog of documents. By purchasing a few network attached scanners, my team was able to work on scanning all of the documents in the basement, and then we entered the scanned documents into our new document software.

It took awhile, but I was able to get everything in order. I even arranged the hardcopies to be stored off site, giving us more room.