Driving Productivity Across the Business

Your business must operate like clockwork. Every process drives a specific outcome for your business, therefore when inefficiencies or interruptions creep into established processes the result can be costly. Through years of experience serving 140,000 customers worldwide, Iron Mountain has built a knowledge base of how information management best practices can increase business efficiency while reducing costs.

The way information moves through your company—and its usefulness and accessibility-has a significant impact on your business. Iron Mountain can help you understand how information travels throughout your organization, from where it is created to where it is stored, and uncover where content overlaps and intersects along the way. These intersections from one system to another, or between paper and electronic information, are good starting points to root out inefficient processes. The challenge is to know where the opportunities for improvement exist, and how to tackle them with efficient information management solutions.

Did you know?

65% of respondents to a recent survey cited improved efficiency and productivity as the top factor influencing implementation of an information management program 1

50% of professionals’ time is spent simply looking for the information they need to do their jobs 2

81% consider the ability to find contracts when needed an area of concern 3

By addressing common areas of inefficiency, your company will be able to:

• Identify and remove bottlenecks that slow the distribution of critical information
• Reduce the time associated with creating and circulating multiple copies of a single record
• Enhance agility by putting the right information in the right place at the right time
• Increase preparedness for a variety of events

Boost efficiencies across your organization by employing these best practices:

• Limit the amount of paper and electronic records kept on hand down to only what is needed to support critical processes, so there is less to search through and review
• Make information more available, so it can be located and distributed across the business with greater ease
• Apply record storage and retention policies that ensure both paper and electronic information is available as needed to serve a variety of needs
• Answer nine simple questions — our Efficiency Advisor can help you identify the areas of delays and disruptions that can affect your critical business processes.

Learn more about the ways we can also help your company increase your cost savings and improve compliance.

¹ ALM Legal Intelligence Survey conducted on behalf of Iron Mountain, “2010 Law Department Records Management Survey.” August 2010
² Coopers & Lybrand, 1993
³ Kirk Krappe and Gopi Kallayil. “Contract Management is More Out of Control Than You Think.” Journal of Contract Management, April 2003