Good afternoon all,
Has anybody had any experience of merging a corporate print department
with a filing department?
This is my challenge for 2006, and is a decision that has been made by
senior management under the key ojective of reducing headcount. The plan
is to create a Document Management Centre with responsibilities for
creation and management of documents and company records. I am hoping to
try and move in the direction of promoting full management of documents
through their entire lifecycle, however we do not even have the most
basic EDM system yet so this is something of a long term goal.
My current role is head of the filing unit, so I am approaching this
with minimal knowledge of the printing business. I can see obvious
synergies such as the opportunity to take advantage of the scanning
equipment to introduce an EDM solution to the filing system. I am also
aware that a lot of items produced in the print room end up in the
filing room, so to some extent we can cut out the middle man.
Clearly this project raises a lot of questions, and I am keen to hear
from people on any related topics. The sort of things that immediately
spring to mind are:
Is there a "list serv" like this one for the print world?
Has anyone else been involved in a similar project?
Does anyone have any idea of the pitfalls?
Does anyone have any idea of potential synergies?
Is this really such a crazy idea in the first place?
In short, I would love to hear peoples ideas on this subject.
Regards,
Chris Everett
Central Filing Manager
Baring Asset Management (London)
Tel: ++44 (0)20 7214 1245 E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: ++44 (0)20 7214 1603 Website:http://www.baring-asset.com
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