Create a Single Email Repository
Improving email productivity: Create a single central repository for emails and documents.
Take email classification a step further and start storing email in SharePoint or other content management systems just like any other document – this will empower business users to manage email with the full capabilities offered by these systems, while allowing IT and ops to meet compliance and audit requirements. The combination turns email into a true center for business productivity.
You can store email in document repositories by physically saving each email to your hard drive and manually uploading/adding metadata, or you can implement technology that does the heavy lifting for you. Evaluate your budget and needs, and pick the best solution for your team.
6 Steps to Transform Email into a Center for Business Productivity
6 Steps to Transform Email into a Center for Business Productivity
Email is driving enterprises to the cloud in droves, and according to a recent harmon.ie survey, cost savings on email storage and maintenance are the number one reason. In fact, while industry pundits predicted email's looming demise in favor of other social tools just a year or two ago, the cloud is now giving email a new breath of life. A 2015 Email Statistics Report from Radicati, the technology research firm that has published definitive email statistics for more than 20 years, revealed that the number of worldwide email users is expected to increase from 2.6 billion today to 2.9 billion by 2019, and that the average business user will receive 96 emails per day by 2019.
While email will continue to play a crucial role in the modern enterprise for decades to come, turning email from a source of distraction into a center for business productivity requires a new playbook. In 2012, consulting firm McKinsey discovered that reading and answering emails constituted 28 percent of an employee's weekly work tasks – this percentage has only increased in the absence of widespread behavioral and technological advances for reducing email overload.
In this slideshow, David Lavenda, vice president of product strategy at harmon.ie and information overload researcher, walks readers through the immediate and future steps enterprises must take to end email overload and embrace email as the center of business connectivity in a cloud environment.
