Ten tips to cut costs and boost productivity in tough times

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March 9, 2009 from itBusiness.ca – “…Here are 10 top cost-cutting, productivity-boosting strategies:

1. Cut output costs – You can achieve a quick 20 to 30 per cent savings by reducing printer, scanner, fax machine and copier expenses, he says. Determine how much your company is spending on these operations. Work with business users to figure out which printing, scanning, faxing and copying tasks are unnecessary. Map out a strategy to reduce output without negatively affecting business, and identify vendors who can offer the best deals on machines and tools that help your company save….

180 View – I (Michael Burns) recently had lunch with a friend who is now working for a company called 4 Office Automation Ltd that provides Managed Print Services (MPS) solutions. MPS is the migration of printing from high cost stand alone devices to low cost multifunctinoal devices. MPS can offer significant savings to organizations that have a mixed unmanaged fleet of imaging devices and lack the expertise to optimize printing services.

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