You can save one to two hours a day using an Integrated Management System. This fact alone more than justifies the upfront investment required to set it up.

Following are a few examples of how people trip themselves up by not taking the time to set up an effective system.

• Writing a to-do list, and then rewriting it a week later on another list, and then on another.
• Opening an email message, reading the message, closing the message, and then not doing anything with it right then and there only to open and read it again tomorrow.
• Finding yourself at the office in need of the proposal you wrote for a meeting, and remembering you left it at home.
• Arriving at a meeting to find that you don't have the notes you need.
• Walking out of a meeting and remembering a critical point you wanted to raise during the meeting. Too late now!

These are just a few examples of how people waste time by not having an Integrated Management System to help them remember what, where, and when.

Here are some interesting statistics: on average, people spend two to three hours a day working with email and 60 minutes a day finding and filing information. After setting up an Integrated Management System, they spend one to two hours a day working with email and 10 minutes a day finding and filing information. That's a savings of one hour and 50 minutes a day, which is almost 12 weeks a year!

Bottom Line: You can't afford not to create an effective Integrated Management System.