Remember the bad old days before the Cloud?
- trying to manage ‘software on the premise’ on many different computers
- working with software in different versions and sometimes pirated and not supported
- wasting everyone’s time emailing co-workers and then waiting for information that lives inside their inbox and on their hard drive
- putting off customers until you got to your office computer to get the information they needed
- And then – to top it off – saying goodbye to valuable company information because it walked out the door inside employees’ heads when they left your organization. And this was not because you had the time and energy to re-invent the wheel all over again
It’s time to Set a New Direction!
Doing business in the Cloud is business as usual today.
The head is for having ideas, not holding them.
David Allen
David Allen’s big contribution to modern productivity was his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity where he emphasized the need to use trusted, external cloud systems.
- Trusted: For a system to be useful, you must trust it to capture, hold, and quickly provide information you need whenever you need it.
- System: The system is the framework by which you route and manage all the “stuff” that comes at you.
- Outside your brain: Your trusted system cannot be your brain. There is too much information to keep track of and your brain is forgetful.
A trusted, external system like Evernote captures all your operational details, lessons learned, insights, personal information and business documentation – in a single place that is easily searchable. And if an employee leaves, all your business information stays inside the company’s Evernote system. No more knowledge disappearing.
Businesses are shifting their workloads to the Cloud because it’s easier to manage the growing complexity and amount of information that is a part of daily life.
See what Evernote can do at your business.