The global year-over-year growth rates of Internet users and smartphones has slowed considerably, both in the 9 to 10 percent range in 2015. This signal of Internet penetration may be a concern to those providing Internet services and smartphone devices, but it also signals a maturity of the global network. Whereas businesses were once primarilyRead more

“Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, ‘They are in the archives.’”                                                                                                           – Annie Leibovitz   In fact, the photographs of the internationally renowned portrait photographer were recently acquired and are now officially archived by the Zurich-based nonprofit LUMA Foundation. But imagine the challenges thatRead more

What does it take to get stuff done? In a busy company, where staff can be widely distributed across departments and geography, providing a customer with the best possible experience throughout the life cycle of sales and support requires a professional staff, efficient coordination of processes, and access to the data and documents that giveRead more

Good ol’ Aunt Belle. Everybody has one – that relative who knows everything about anything. You need to know what to do to get rid of that cold? Aunt Belle has the remedy. You’re looking for a new dishwasher? Aunt Belle will tell you which brand works best and where you can get it onRead more

Do you remember that time an Internet message said you needed an operating system update and, when you pressed “Install,” your computer was never quite right again? How about that time you sent a document to the printer and there was two pages worth of blotchy ink on a single piece of paper? Or whatRead more

There is a Chinese proverb that goes like this: “If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.” It’s a simple but profound idea that is valuable in thinking about growing a business and gaining new efficiencies through change and innovation. A small company is survival oriented,Read more

The fact that information is driving today’s businesses is widely accepted. The proliferation of paper – and now the rapid growth of digitized storage – is testament to a company’s inherent need to create, use, manage, store, and control the information it requires to run effectively and provide value to its many stakeholders. But often,Read more

Imagine this world. The calm and meditative silence that remains after the constant hum of a hungry community paper shredder ceases to exist. The end of the corporate waste paper basketball league as the ladder collapses department by department due to a lack of suitable equipment. Stark sentries of armored metal file cabinets disappearing; inRead more

The market is quite literally exploding with innovative smartphones by leading and emerging manufacturers. Earlier this year, Samsung brought some excitement into the market with the much anticipated Galaxy Note 7. However, the company was forced to announce a global recall after some of the flagship device caught fire due to battery cell issues. WhileRead more

When employees within your company hit that “save” button, where do their files go? In the old days, when technology was seen as a productivity tool, the only path for that document might have been to the user’s hard drive. Data and information stayed private and quite vulnerable to loss, theft, and equipment failure. Now,Read more