SOFTWARE ALONE WILL NEVER BE THE E-MAIL ‘MAGIC BULLET’

Most people believe that it is the next piece of software that will be the panacea for taking them out of the chaos of information overload.

While, in this day and age, we cannot live without software, software alone as the sole solution is a fairy tale approach to an overwhelming condition.

What has been incredibly overlooked is, what I refer to as, the ‘Human’ side of information management. Whether it be paper-based or electronically-held, teaching people how to regain control of all that falls upon them in this myriad of ever-flowing channels has to be coupled with tools that transcend software.

The ever-growing arena of e-mail is the place that I have come to see as the greatest bottleneck in the wastage of time and productivity. It is not at all uncommon to find hundreds and, in many cases, thousands of e-mails in one’s ‘In-box’. This doesn’t even account for the amount lodged in ‘Sent’ and ‘Deleted’. These compartments really act as archival storage facilities.

Mr. Gates has missed the mark to the degree that there are only two categories in Outlook’s In-box-‘Read’ and ‘Unread’. I believe that there is a far more populated third category I refer to as ‘Glanced at’. It is in this latter category that need-to-know information, appointments, time-critical input is missed with, many times, dire consequences.

In this arena our program begins with the creation eight new folders for gaining control of one’s e-mail dilemma. This, along with establishing sub-folders (and sub-sub-folders where needed), creates a pathway in allowing a person to place, and obtain, their e-mails with INSTANT RETRIEVEABILITY.

Suffice it to say that thousands of our clients who had previously been in an uncontrollable state with their e-mail, will tell you that they have virtually ZERO E-MAILS in their e-mail ‘In-box’ as well as in their ‘Sent’ and ‘Deleted’ categories at the end of each and every day…Just imagine!