Making the Case for MPS
The Internet, PDF documents that can be read on any system, massive increase in electronic storage space, and Electronic Content Management (ECM) systems were supposed to result in a paperless office. However, instead of reducing the amount of paper used by organizations, this is actually increasing document production as paper moved from being an information storage tool to being a convenience item. Instead of printing a document and filing it for later use (how many of those pages do you actually file that you print each day?), we receive an electronic document, print it to read it, throw it away, print it again at some later date when we need it again, throw it away, and repeat this process many times with a single electronic document.
