Print now to avoid regret
Almost half (44%) of British adults have lost a digital photo they wish they had printed, with ‘losing/
breaking hardware’ and ‘accidentally deleting photos’ being the most common ways to lose images.
According to a YouGov survey commissioned by Jessops to mark the launch of its new online photo printing
service, 21% of British adults have never printed a photo. Nearly one in ten (8%) print a photo at least once
a month. Jessops’ new website makes printing photos easy, with the option to have prints delivered to a
home address or to the nearest Jessops store for collection within 25 minutes.
Paper forms a major frustration for HR
Time spent chasing printed
forms is a major frustration
for three out of four (78%) HR
departments, according to a
survey of 250 HR decision-
makers carried out by Bilendi
for Adobe.
The greatest annoyances
are having to chase people to
sign and return forms (42%);
managers and employees
holding on to documents (31%);
and forms being lost (24%).
HR teams believe employees
stall signing because they can’t
be bothered (40%); it’s not a
priority (35%); they forget about
it (31%); and to avoid being
legally bound by terms and
conditions (25%).
Nearly half (46%) of HR
managers say they need to
chase more than once for a
form to be returned. One in
three complains that they do
not have complete visibility
of where HR forms are in the
whole signing process.
Despite these challenges,
only 30% of HR managers
say they have used a digital
document solution to simplify or
speed up HR processes.
Adobe recently added
new e-sign capabilities to
its Document Cloud that
make it easier than ever to
electronically sign documents.
These include a visual drag-
and-drop Workflow Designer
for creating consistent signing
processes; Enterprise Mobility
Management and Signature
Capture for signing on-the-go;
and digital signatures, a more
secure form of e-signatures
that meet the requirements of
regulated industries and the
EU.
In addition, Adobe has
integrated Document Cloud
with Workday, Salesforce and
Ariba making it easier for
organisations to add e-signing
capabilities to existing HR, sales,
procurement and legal systems.
Forrester Research
estimates that over 754 million
documents will be signed
electronically in 2017, 350%
more than in 2014.
Digital dexterity key to
business success
The key to business success in the twenty-first century is
digital dexterity, Capgemini Consulting claims in a new report
produced in collaboration with MIT Center for Digital Business.
Organising for Digital: Why Digital Dexterity Matters
reveals that
organisations with the greatest digital dexterity are twice as likely
as competitors to experience industry-leading levels of growth,
profitability and customer satisfaction.
Based on analysis of the digital transformation efforts of 274
industry executives in 150 enterprises, CapGemini Consulting
identifies the five key attributes of digital dexterity as:
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A digital-first mindset that prioritises digital solutions;
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Systematic experimentation to drive innovation across the
organisation;
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The ability to self-organise quickly around new digital opportunities;
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Empowering employees, including frontline staff, to make
decisions by giving them access to data; and
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Engaging employees by encouraging collaborative problem-solving.
CapGemini Consulting estimates that so far only 7% of
organisations have fully digitised operations, hold significant skills
in digital technologies and are able to quickly self-organise and
detect emerging trends.
Just over one in five (21%) are well underway with digitisation
and already have digital capabilities in personalising the customer
experience, simplifying routine tasks and enabling collaboration
within and beyond the organisation’s boundaries.
The majority (56%) are just starting to make this shift and are
slowly building their digital competencies. Sixteen per cent are
‘stalling’, have yet to develop any significant digital capability and
are unable to respond to emerging trends and customer needs.
Didier Bonnet, Senior Vice President for Digital Transformation
at Capgemini Consulting, said: “During electrification, productivity
surged only after firms had radically redesigned how they
organised – from the physical factory layout to the introduction of
the assembly line and greater job specialisation. This was a radical
shift that took some 20 to 30 years to evolve. Our conviction is that
something very similar will happen with digital transformation.”
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Advanced levels of digital dexterity allows organisations to seize
opportunities and respond to disruptions more quickly.
Only 30% of HR managers
have used a digital document
solution to speed up processes
UK businesses let intelligence go to waste
One in four businesses gains zero benefit from the information
they possess, warn Iron Mountain and PwC, as they launch their
Information Value Index
to measure how well businesses manage
information for competitive advantage.
Research by the two companies shows a lack of awareness of the
extent to which business information can be exploited. Almost two
thirds (64%) of UK business leaders believe they are already making
the most of their information. Yet, the
Information Value Index
shows
that just 4% of businesses in Europe and North America are getting
maximum value from the data they hold. Almost half (43%) gain little
or no (23%) tangible benefit.
Overall, the
Information Value Index
gives UK businesses an
average score of 46.9 out of 100, indicating that a majority have
a long way to go before they can release the full value of their
information.
A summary of the report,
Seizing the information advantage: How
organisations can unlock value and insight from the information they
hold
, can be found
at
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