The 2 Productivity Tools I Use
POV: One day, I sat for 8 hours in a training session to use one of our client’s document management systems (DMS). It was lengthy, complicated, had tons of metadata, and a lot to consider every time we had to use this system.
After eight hours, and while I was packing my things to leave, one of the client’s representatives asked me how I found the session. I answered: “I’m surprised you (as a company) decided to work to keep a document management system running instead of using the system to help you finish your projects.”
The room went into dead silence immediately. For the next 10 to 15 seconds, no one said a single word, and everybody looked at everybody.
Then someone asked me: “What do you mean?” I replied: “Well, DMS or any productivity tool is designed to support your work and make you more efficient or productive. This DMS is designed to do the exact opposite — It requires a huge deal of metadata to function, and if one of these data is entered wrong or incomplete, the entire system crashes.” He answered:
I see no objections to this statement
These words are sad. You’ll never see good results if you do not believe in the capabilities of…
