Our topics: evolving work styles,
the resiliency of the pen and paper,
and why Xerox® Digital Alternatives give
these old standbys some real competition.
Have pen and paper
met their match?
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QUESTIONS
How have recent
digital technologies
impacted personal
workflows?
There’s been a kind of splintering of
work styles. Digital natives and digital
firsts gravitate toward mostly digital,
mobile ways of working, while others
are using a combination of traditional
and digital work styles. So while the
document is still at the center of the
majority of workflows, it is being
created, edited, saved and shared in
so many different ways depending
on personal preferences.
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What is a personal
workflow? How is
it different from
an enterprise
workflow?
An enterprise workflow starts with a
definition of what the workflow will
be, clearly describing each step. This
obviously makes recurring processes,
like the handling of invoices, more
efficient and consistent. A personal
workflow on the other hand is just that
… personal. There’s no defined process
up front. Just like this interview
process. I received a list of questions,
added a few annotations and thought
starters of my own and jumped on
a call to flesh out the content.
for Andy Jones,
Vice President
of Workflow
Automation
at Xerox.
Are corporations
or organizations
taking full
advantage of
digital technologies?
The impetus for digital transformation
came from workers, not corporate
management. This has been a bottom-up revolution. And I think knowledge
workers are absolutely taking
advantage of digital tools. Now the
challenge is for organizations to find
solutions that meet their employees’
preferred ways of working and their
own needs for security, oversight and
accountability.
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