Welcome back to Project Disaster. In case you missed the first installment of this project, you can read about it here

Wow, this place is a mess.

So, in order to make this a manageable task for the desk’s owner, we are going to break this task into chunks.

While there is a pile of stuff to get through here, planning is important to make sure that all of this paper has a place to go and is not just shoved in a filing cabinet.

In an business environment, paper comes into an office in the following ways:

• Mail
• Fax
• Computer Generated

Paper must then be acted on and filed away.

For now, we will be happy with just getting the in box up and running.

As with all situations, each requires a little bit of customization. And here, one of the factors that we need to deal with is that there are two businesses being run out of this office, with some paperwork being specific to each business and some is just related to the operation of the office itself.

So what we need is something with 3 sections that can function as an in-box. We are going to have one rule for this in box, what comes in to the in box, goes out of the inbox - within 24 hours!

While, this current “Floor Filing System” is far from good, there seems to be some organization to it in that most of the paper is currently piled into meaningful categories - phone bills, shipping bills, etc, which makes getting all of this paper into the inbox in a organized way a little easier.

It also makes the next step, building the filing system, a little easier as well

Keep it Neat!

Every once in a while we come across a room in such rough shape, you could only call it a disaster!

For example, take this office.

Anyone see a problem?

Ladies and Gentlemen…

Welcome to PROJECT DISASTER where we get to take peek behind closed doors (and thank goodness they are closed most of the time) and see how real people work and live.

As you can see from the pictures, it doesn’t take a professional to tell you that this desk is in desperate need of two things:

• A paper management system
• A PAPER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

So, check back with us here at Project Disaster in a few days to learn about the simple paper management system developed to help save this poor desk from any more pain and suffering.

Keep it Neat!