How to Reduce Waste While Increasing Efficiency It is hard to miss the topic of "environmental sustainability" these days. Whether you are searching the Web, listening to your radio, or turning on the TV, there are stories about the environment to be seen or heard everywhere. It may be that the only place you aren't constantly hearing about these issues is when you are at work. Ironically, it is there that your awareness and the resultant changes you might make can have the greatest positive effect, on both the environment and your business.

Crimson Consultants recognises the tough challenges that industries face today as they struggle to support their businesses in the face of budget cuts and uncertainty about the future. It’s natural that environmental sustainability is taking a back seat in many companies at this time. But the fact is, being “lean and green” is good for both business and the environment, and organisations that focus their attentions accordingly will see clear benefits. Reducing energy use and waste improves a company’s bottom line, and increasing the use of recycled materials is a proven way to demonstrate good corporate citizenship to your customers, employees, and the communities you do business in. Although many organisations have made great strides in reducing their carbon footprint there is more to be done. Technologies such as CRM and SharePoint can help in the process to:-

• Reduce paper useage: Reducing the amount of paper your organisation consumes is one of the immediate benefits of using CRM and SharePoint. With your business documents stored and managed online, you will find little need to print technical documents, business letters, policy forms, meeting agendas, phone lists, and more.
• Reduce energy consumption: Become more efficient and save energy as your information flows freely, employees connect with one another, and business processes are streamlined. When you do all of this, you reduce duplication, redundancy, and wasted employee efforts.
• Consolidate Hardware and Reduce Waste: Out of the box, SharePoint includes document management, records management, search, document libraries, email-enabled lists, dashboards, calendars, discussions, forms, and more! In an office environment where these services run on multiple computers, servers, and various hardware, you can consolidate this onto one server running SharePoint. Not only can this reduce unnecessary hardware, but you simplify your business environment by storing everything in a central location that is accessible by all.
• Decrease corporate travel and reduce air pollution: Connecting people, sharing ideas, files, and schedules, and increasing collaboration are all part of the SharePoint experience. Doing so instantly and without face-to-face interaction is just another benefit of SharePoint.

That is why, at Crimson Consultants, we are focused on helping your company become more environmentally sustainable.

Environmental Tip:

Rather than print out your emails for filing, click on to store the email against the contact and account within the CRM database. Further, you can set the 'Regarding' field to associate the email with the relevant activity such as a sales enquiry or a quote: which significantly reduces the time searching for emails.

Contact us now to see how we can help your business become greener.