Bill Brikiatis over at the eCopy blog offered an insightful post today about how a generational shift in the workplace may cause document scanning and imaging technology to snowball into mass adoption as Baby Boomers get older and "Gen Yers" get promoted.
Mr. Brikiatis cites a study by industry researcher IDC that younger office workers feel that their organizations have not yet made their operations as electronic as they could and should be.
Part of this is environmental concern, as young people seek to stop the needless killing of countless trees, and part of this is concern for efficiency, as young people see the need for speed around the office.
Environmental and speed needs that document imaging fulfills.
One thing that Mr. Brikiatis addresses only indirectly in his thought is the time frame for when the desire of the younger generation will actually have enough say around the office to start doing things its way, and have everyone else follow suit.
Customarily, the older generation of managers are not exactly chomping at the bit to take input and instruction from a pack of Twitter-heads.
Younger office workers, then, should be prepared to show measurable ROI and point out hard-headed business uses for "cool" document imaging applications such as Optical Character Recognition.
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Andrew -- Thanks for picking up on my post on the Net Generation at the Document Imaging Blog. You are correct that the important question is when will Generation Y have enough influence to change the way organizations work. My guess is that it will happen sooner than most are expecting given the recent increasing interest in green technology and the paperless office.
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