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Be Productive!

29 octobre 2007 | Bureautique, Traduction

English translation of the article “Soyez Productif(ve)s !”.
Author: Bernard Opic - Translator: Andrew Kovacs, Ph. D

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In a few short words, it’s all about working less to produce more, but applied to Office Automation. Do you have a clear definition of productivity?

Whatever you may think, it would only seem logical that current Office Automation Software is attempting to achieve perfection in helping us work less to produce more.

Perhaps so.

However, putting aside all that wonderful technology transforming our documents which are then transmitted to our collaborators so quickly, only to be filed away even more quickly, that a Desktop Search – to be done using the latest search program – becomes inevitably necessary to find them, what do you really think of productivity?

What are we supposed to think of…

• time and money spent for training?
• gratitude and timeless skills?
• time invested in document upkeep to adapt them to the latest version of your software?
• time spent solving portability problems to exchange or access your documents using different versions of a same computer program?

Have you tried to calculate all the time spent trying to figure out your increase in productivity?

If it goes without saying that Innovation in Office Automation Software is of interest, we still need to distinguish the useful from the futile and to have a choice.

[Translator’s note.] As Neil Peart once said, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!”