Fighting a full mailbox - stop sending me large files
I am currently working at a client site for consultancy work. This morning I came to the client site and spent a frustrated hour cleaning up my mailbox, as I have yet again reached my email quota, and could not send any more emails before I do some cleaning up.
So I set up a small rule for myself. Sort by subject, and if there are any attachments, delete everything by the latest one, that way, hopefully I would end up with the “latest” version…
It never ceased to surprise me how large companies (and my client is one of the largest blue chips in the world) still do not take advantage of Document Management software or Online Collaboration tools. The irony is that these companies bought various tools and software, however they are disparate, IT driven, too complicated to setup, and ended up not being used. And people end up with the frustration of losing files, version confusion, same document duplicated all over the network, and full mailboxes..
I think the truly criminal thing is “these companies bought various tools and software, however they are disparate, IT driven, too complicated to setup, and ended up not being used”
Time and time again we see this - a total lack of return on investment for what should have been best of breed applications - because - there is no cultural clarity, no central ownership in the business and no internal project management and vision.