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http://www.objective.com/news-and-events/archive/2005/more-than-one-
working-week-a-year-wasted-searching-for-shared-documents
Survey reveals that an unfortunate 23 per cent of us spend a staggering three and a half weeks looking for lost
information each year
A survey of 250 professionals, conducted on behalf of Objective Corporation, has revealed that a significant amount of time
is being wasted every year searching for documents that have not been saved on shared servers or in an appropriate folder.
A lack of internal processes when it comes to the management of documents has led to:
Gary Fisher, CEO Europe, Objective Corporation, said: “Not only is this extremely frustrating for staff and management
alike, it is also a significant waste of time that could be better spent on activities that generate profit or improve services.”
“Organisations need to have clearly defined processes in place to ensure effective management of critical documents.
Content management solutions can help enforce those processes that make categorisation and retrieval of all information
types easier for staff. However, the problem needs to be recognised and the processes agreed as a priority,” he concludes.
Documents saved onto desktops and documents being saved in the wrong place, were the two main reasons highlighted by
When asked if they could not access a document because it was saved on an individuals desktop:
However, it seems that workers are not helping themselves with 21 per cent admitting they only save documents onto
shared servers ‘when I have to’. A further 3 per cent admitted they never saved documents onto a shared server.
In the 21st century no organisation can afford to lose any percentage of its intellectual capital, whether that is in the climate
of a regulatory regime, in the face of increased competition or in the provision of customer service standards that are
A report from research company The Gartner Group found that on average each worker spends
around eight hours per week of 'wasted time' dealing with documents. This time is broken down
in the following ways:
Bearing in mind that most employees rely on paper-based files to some extent in their work, this
8 hours per week can be taken as an average. Use average hourly rates to calculate the wage
spend this is costing your company.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Justifying-the-Cost-of-a-Document-Management-System&id=4996731
Business are unable to calculate the return on investment of document management, electronic content management (ECM) and
workflow software, the latest survey from NCC Research has found.
Of the 100 businesses surveyed, 27% said it was very difficult and 35% said it was difficult to measure ROI on these systems.
Organisations still have difficulty in retrieving and managing unstructured data, according to 73% of the businesses surveyed. Only 20% said
this was relatively trouble free.
Only 18% of companies said their information was held corporately and was available to all who need it. This contrasts with 52% who
conceded that vital corporate information was scattered around many different departmental systems and was hard to find.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/08/25/237446/Document-management-ROI-39too-
difficult-to-measure39.htm
http://www.atalasoft.com/savemillions
According to IDC the average office worker spends 2.4 hours per week converting documents from one format to
another
With Vizit you can quickly find the right document the first time! Vizit reduces the user’s time searching for documents
by providing a full document preview right in the search results. IDC estimates the average worker spends over 9
hours each week searching for documents and using Vizit will reduce this time by approximately 10%. ($285,000)
According to IDC the average office worker spends 3.8 hours reformatting documents per week.
According to IDC the average office worker spends 8.8 hours per week editing and reviewing documents
According to IDC the average office worker spends 9.6 hours per week analyzing information from different sources.
All figures are based on data from IDC Whitepapers (207682 & 05C4405A) and assume the average server supporting 200 users.