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By Patricia Ames – It’s no surprise that we are drowning in information. According to IBM, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day —so much that 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. What’s more, this is expected to double in the next year and a half.

But what may surprise you is that much of that information is still in paper form. One research report from AIIM found that nearly half of businesses they spoke to said that the biggest single productivity improvement they could make would be to remove paper from their workflow. Indeed, 68 percent of respondents said that business at the speed of paper will be “unacceptable in just a few years’ time.” But despite this recognition, paper consumption is still increasing for one in five organizations in the survey.

“Less Paper” Initiatives Needed

One reason for the staying power of paper is the apparent lack of C-level level support for paper suppression. According to the AIIM study, just 19 percent of the organizations participating in the survey had a board-level endorsed policy to cut paper consumption. What is needed are more “less paper” initiatives with executive support. Consider these surprising statistics…


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