Schools are trying to find ways of cutting down printing expenditure without having to compromise educational standards, so it is only natural that material resources are the first place to look when trying to save money.
The world is at war with plastic pollution. South Africa has officially made the top 20 of the world’s worst plastic polluters – we are ranked at number 11, worse than India, and the entire United States.
The reason is that South Africans on average, use approximately two kilograms of plastic per day, which amounts to a whopping 42 million tons of plastic waste generated each year. The problem is that only 21 % of this is recycled – the remaining 79 % of plastic waste is either disposed to landfill, or ends up in our oceans. In South Africa, the equivalent of one dump truck of plastic is emptied into the ocean every minute! In fact, it is predicted that by the year 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean by weight, than fish!
“Move fast with stable infrastructure.” – Mark Zuckerberg
Document archiving and management can be very inefficient when not handled properly, and can also be a considerable pain point in large organisations.
To get some perspective, here are some facts that Pam Doyle found out about document handling in a 2010 research study:
- Professionals spend 5-15% of their time reading documents, and up to 50% of their time looking for these same documents
- The average document gets photocopied 19 times
- Users send and receive 133 emails a day (on average)
These kinds of facts highlight how inefficient document archiving and management practices can negatively impact productivity, but how does one address this?
Who hasn’t wanted to take out their frustrations on the ever-failing office printer? From confusing error messages and always-empty ink cartridges to unfixable paper jams. Today’s printers are a source of frustration and angst for most, and yet we can’t go without them either.
Can we ever understand the true cost of downtime in an organisation? The only way to do this is to get a grip on what downtime really costs. The first step is to define what “downtime” means, which is “system unavailability”. Even if an application is “up and running”, it is still considered downtime if the application can’t be used.
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