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Maximize your business potential and open new revenue possibilities with start-to-finish production print and wide format solutions from EO Johnson and Standard Dynamics finishing solutions.
You demand multifunction copiers that are easy to use and cost-efficient. With thorough training and prompt service response, you’ll find EO Johnson’s copiers are as dependable as you are.
Locknet® Managed IT offers security, network defense, backup, and managed services to help businesses in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa develop successful technology strategies, whether you’re small to medium-sized, regulated, non-regulated, or have little to no IT staff.
Our solutions help you with a specific document need or work together for a powerful combination to increase efficiency and productivity.
With more than 85 technicians throughout our service areas of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and northern Iowa, we have someone close by to help. The average response time for a technician to arrive at your site is under 4 hours.
For Copier and Printer Service
844.342.5365
For Production Print and Finishing
844.236.7567
EO Johnson Locknet® Managed IT Services
877.408.1656
Software Solutions
844.304.8791
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As your business grows, so does the associated number of records and documents. Organizing company records often takes a back seat to the immediate employee, customer, or production issues which means many companies today still have metal file cabinets holding their company’s paper records - some dating back to the company’s founding. To minimize legal exposure, maintain compliance, and control access to information, it’s increasingly important for companies to develop comprehensive record retention policies and practices.
Some areas of your business that likely need a better record retention strategy include:
Depending on your industry, you may also have things like patient records, vendor contracts, or customer financial documents to consider.
Consult with the Experts. When determining a record retention plan, it’s best to start with your company’s compliance and legal counsel to ensure you are establishing the appropriate cadence and minimizing any unnecessary risk. If your company is a member of a trade organization, there may also be legal and operational resources available to help you determine best practices for records unique to your industry along with any federal, state, and local laws.
Start your Digital Transformation. Make a plan to move your vital documents from a physical space to a digital space. Bulk document scanning services can facilitate the process of moving your paper records into an electronic records system. Doing so will make your records retention plan much easier and benefit your business in many ways.
Establish Organization and Access Parameters. Once files are digitized, it’s important to establish a clear organizational structure of the electronic documents along with outlining access restrictions. Through a document management system, electronic files should be indexed and accessible to those who have a legitimate work use for them or those who are legally required to access them. Record-keeping policies should also clearly outline the appropriate locations for different types of documents based on business process groupings, and access should be restricted to those file locations.
Create a Records Retention Schedule. Establishing a record retention schedule serves as a company’s legal authority to retain and purge records. The records retention schedule should outline all types of records and how long those records are required to be retained. This can vary by type of industry, business unit, federal guidelines, and state guidelines. It’s up to each business, in consultation with their legal counsel, to create a record retention plan for each area of their company. Doing so establishes a “good faith” effort in ensuring a consistent records management program.
Purge Records on Schedule. Your company’s records management policy should include how and when documents will be destroyed based on the schedule outlined. In addition, it’s a good idea to have an auditing procedure in place to ensure the requirements are being followed correctly. Failure to purge documents on the planned schedule could open your company to unnecessary risk. If you destroy records too soon and are not able to produce them during an audit, you could risk fines. You can also incur more risk than you should in legal discovery by keeping records beyond their retention dates.
Review Periodically. A record retention policy is dynamic and should be reviewed periodically (likely every 1-2 years) to determine if legal changes have impacted retention periods. Additionally, if business processes have changed, your record retention policy should be reviewed in accordance with those changes.
While getting started on a record retention strategy may seem overwhelming, the team of digital transformation experts at EO Johnson is able to walk you through the steps and help you get started. We will help you think through your unique business records and determine which documents are in scope for digitizing from paper to electronic files. Once we have an inventory of records along with the retention schedule you developed, we apply that schedule to your documents. You may have some records ready to be destroyed right away, and we can assist with that. Other records deemed necessary for retention are digitized and indexed into a document management system. They are entered into the system with the appropriate destroy date and can be sorted and identified for the destroy process in the future.
Moving away from paper-based processes and embracing a digital transformation may come with some hesitation. But they are necessary steps in developing a secure records management system and coordinating a retention schedule that will ensure your business isn’t exposed to unnecessary risks.
Contact our team of digital transformation consultants today to get started.
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