Scores of senior businessmen and women are to take part in a voyage of discovery being held at the RNLI headquarters in Poole by an award-winning local firm.
The interactive event on Friday, September 6, focuses on how they can get their workplace document processes all ship-shape.
It is being co-hosted by Ringwood-based Canotec, which employs 40 staff and specialises in networked digital copiers and scanning technology for companies and organisations.
Upwards of 70 guests, from managing directors to IT directors, are to attend the day-long Work Smarter seminar.
They’ll also be taking part in a get-your-kit-on lifeboat crew drill, a tour of the sea rescue charity’s nerve centre and a cruise around Poole Harbour – hopefully without the need for rescue!
Speakers include customers from Arts University Bournemouth, legal firms Bond Dickinson and Wedlake Bell and recruitment agency Rubicon People.
The focus will be on document workflow and management-related issues and how to enhance efficiency and security in document workflows, eliminating uncessary effort, cost and waste.
Several customers are to give thought-provoking presentations on less-paper strategies, cloud-enabled information services and how smarter and more agile IT can really support growth.
According to industry figures, two out of every five of us in the UK work away from the office because of the digital revolution.
David Newman, the co-founder of Canotec, said: “There are simply too many companies squandering trees, time and money on creating and then managing unnecessary document output and waste, even in these straitened times.
“Their IT is all at sea and their document processes leave staff with a sinking feeling, rather than being ship-shape, watertight and fluid.”
Attendees will hear how one firm with 650 staff and five multi-site offices saved £100,000 a year by removing the paper equivalent of 600 trees annually from workflows, with a 35% reduction in related energy costs, after Canotec came to the rescue.
Fee-earners and IT teams were also freed up from the lost time frustrations of being caught up with printing problems.
Canotec, established 21 years ago, recently won a third national award for its work, this time for best user engagement, with a special commendation for customer service, at an IT awards ceremony in London.
As well as Canotec, the other co-hosts are QuoStar and Cactus IT, with supporting partners Canon, Knowology, Nuance and Copitrak.
They are all among the most respected names in the office communications industry.
A similar event was held in April at Canotec’s South Western base, The Paintworks in Bristol.
