How to Use the Fellowes P-48C Cross-Cut Shredder

November 2nd, 2011 by Admin

The Fellowes P-48C is a user-friendly cross-cut shredder that can help you protect your identity. Using this machine is a breeze. Just follow these steps:

  • Turn on the shredder and disengage the safety lock. The “on” switch is located on the back of the machine.
  • Place your documents in the feed opening. This machine can shred up to 8 sheets at a time. However, you might find that the shredder’s performance is improved if you shred less than that amount.
  • The P-48C can shred credit and debit cards for additional security. Just place your card in the feed opening and the machine will take care of it.
  • If you ever experience a paper jam, just put the shredder into reverse mode and tug on your paper. When the jam is cleared, you can go back to shredding as usual.
  • Don’t forget to turn the P-48C off when you’re done with it. You should also re-engage the safety lock, especially if there are kids and/or pets around.

You can see the Fellowes P-48C paper shredder in action by watching the embedded video. This video shows you just how easy it is to use the device. Happy shredding!

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Business Continuity Planning: Your Company’s “Safety Net”

October 17th, 2011 by Admin

The Importance of Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning can offer protection from many potential risks that can threaten your company by disrupting critical business processes. These risks include traditional disasters like earthquakes, fires, floods, and tornados, as well as risks from terrorism (both physical and cyberterrorism), cybercrime, computer failures, theft and employee sabotage. Any one of these events can be extremely disruptive and detrimental to your business, yet all of the potential damage from each of them can be substantially minimized through business continuity management.

A business continuity management program is likely to increase your company’s profitability as the primary focus of business continuity management is to minimize business process disruptions and financial loss during major and minor events. This translates into improved reliability and productivity for your company and consequently, a competitive advantage and increased market share.

Business continuity management is a relatively new term that is often thought of as interchangeable with “disaster recovery”. In fact, business continuity management entails so much more. Business continuity management includes disaster recovery, business recovery, business resumption, contingency planning, emergency and crisis management.

The Benefits of Business Continuity Planning

  • Identify and resolve structural problems within an organization.
  • Gain a clearer understanding of your business processes.
  • Address the “Backlog Trap” scenario before it occurs.
  • Streamline business processes to insure easy recovery in the event of a crisis.
  • Identify bureaucratic and inefficient structures.
  • Create fast and effective communications systems.
  • Establish minimum service levels for mission critical activities.
  • Cost effectively focus your IT budgets for maximum resilience.
  • Identify and prioritize critical business data and storage requirements.

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The Importance of Business Continuity Planning

September 11th, 2011 by Admin

Business continuity planning is the process whereby a firm figures out a plan of action that it will take in the case of unforeseen events. The process anticipates risk and helps limit the downside that companies may experience when adverse events occur.

While these types of plans are common in large public entities, they often go uncompleted in emerging ventures. This is because emerging ventures typically have less resources and more critical day-to-day tasks to complete. As such, business continuity planning often gets pushed aside until it’s too late.

Recent events ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the New York City Transit Union strike show that there are many adverse events that could arise with little or no warning. Such events often destroy businesses that are ill equipped to deal with them.

Emerging ventures must create business continuity plans. Such plans will include backing up work and communicating and/or meeting virtually when required among others. Regardless of the specifics of a company’s plans, it must brainstorm potential situations and determine how it will deal with them before they occur.

Fortunately for emerging ventures, business continuity planning can also have positive short-term effects. By assessing multiple what-if scenarios, businesses often come up with new product and service ideas, or new ways of doing business that can increase profits even when no disaster occurs.

It is never too early to begin continuity planning, but clearly there are times when it is too late. As a result, sitting down and beginning your plan today is good business.

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