The Problem:
Steve Godbee (Director) of Godbee Electrical needed to be able to produce hardcopy documents remotely including work method statements, take 5’s, WHS procedures, invoices and more. Tradesmen were regularly returning to base and wasting large amounts of productive time on printing these documents, only to return to site where they would provide this information to a project manager. Steve was looking for a solution and reached out to Nick about what could be done.
The Solution:
Over a discussion a plan was devised to utilise the existing OneDrive platform within their Microsoft Office 365 subscription. This cloud hosted platform was a perfect and readily available environment primed to distribute information to staff securely but without allowing them the ability to accidentally change business critical information and documents.
The added bonus was that staff could also set this up on existing hardware like a smartphone or tablet by simply downloading the app. the only remaining thing was how to get the project manager a hard copy.
The Outcome:
Steve went with nicks recommendation to use office 365 and its OneDrive platform, he also implemented a HP Mobile printer to each of his Tradesmans work vans, allowing staff to print directly to it from their smart devices without any network present or physical connection.
The Result:
Staff no longer need to waste valuable hours on a seemingly menial task, Steve can now be more competitive when tendering for work knowing less hours will be wasted doing the job, and his contractors get what they want when they want it. A WIN, WIN, WIN for everyone.
