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Are you green enough to be celebrated by the Sunday Times?

The Times online are seeking entries for the inaugural Sunday Times Best Green Companies Awards – a project designed to encourage, acknowledge and publicise businesses and other organisations, which are striving to improve their environmental performance.

Anyone can nominate an organisation – from the cleaner to the CEO. Entries are invited NOW. The competition will remain open until February 29, 2008. The winners will be announced in May.

There are five competitions within the overall contest; Large companies of more than 5,000 employees and mid-sized companies of 250-4,999 employees, operating in high environmental impact sectors

Click here for more information.

Click here to enter the competition.

 

ImageNow® and HP at Work in Human Resources

Get the most from your HP MFP by incorporating its functions into your office workflow. Here is an example of HP working with Perceptive Software in HR.

For all companies, human resources and documentation go hand in hand. Today, HR departments face increased pressure to quickly and accurately process a multitude of personnel documents - CVs, insurance forms, payroll statements, tax forms, performance reviews and many more - and is expected to answer any question at a moment’s notice.

The complete article looks at the following topics which can be read in full by clicking here:

·Reduce Manual Processing

· Directly Collect and Organize All Your Documents

· Immediately Respond to Inquiries

· Enhance Regulatory Compliance

Saving cost & improving efficiancy in a print environment

Printing & Copying may not be the most exciting area of IT, but without it business would grind to a halt. The IT challenge is how to deploy a print and copying environment that keeps costs under control while delivering the essential services that your users need. Below are the Top 10 factors to consider:

1. Understand how much printing and copying costs you.
2. Combine Printing and copying management .
3. Put in place the tools to monitor and measure usage effectively.
4. Reduce management costs.
5. Consider a managed print service.
6. Embrace colour, don’t eliminate it.
7. Retain your company image.
8. Don’t skimp on cartridges.
9. Give users fast, first page printing.
10. Make driver installation easy.

For further information on how to address any of the above factors please click here.