Managing change - The security of feeling paper

Most people reading this blog will understand how much paper businesses use when managing even a simple order. From purchase orders, to change requests, from delivery dockets to emails, even the most simple of order can use a heap of paper.

So while the technology is available (and has been for years) to avoid printing out such documents, the fact is that most people are more comfortable in printing something out knowing they can access at any time.

Tablets and digital paper will go someway to eliminating paper altogether, but in the interim years, we are seeing a clear trend towards some key documents being printed, while all others stored digitally.