What makes you more efficent?
September 24, 2008
According to Dictionary.com, the term “efficiency” is defined as:
“1. The state or quality of being efficient; competency of performance.
2. Accomplishment or ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort.
3. The ratio of the work done or energy developed by a machine, engine, etc., to the energy supplied to it, usually expressed as a percentage.”
In today’s information age, we are presented with many opportunities to increase our efficiency. Facebook lets us connect with people, YouTube empowers us to share media, and Google helps us access information in ways we never dreamed of just a few short years ago. These are just three well-known examples. There are literally thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of products available today via the world wide web that help us do things cheaper, better, faster than ever before.
So how do you choose which products are best for you? Obviously, you must first define what you are trying to do cheaper, better, and faster. That will narrow the choices considerably. But even then you still left with a virtual sea of choices to wade through to make a selection.
The single most important criteria to me is “ease of use.” If a product does everything I need it to do to make me more efficient at whatever I am doing, but is difficult to use or learn, or difficult for the people I work with to use or learn, then it doesn’t do much at all to enhance my “state or quality of being efficient,” or allow me to “accomplish a job with a minimum of expediture of time and effort.”
REDNP addresses this problem head on. REDNP is an online software application that actually increases personal efficiency by focusing first and foremost on providing a robust application that is EASY TO USE – for everyone involved. The software has lots of neat and beneficial functionality, like organizing information onto one universally accessible central location, and enhancing team communication and accountability by integrating directly with users’ local email systems and calendars. But beyond that, what makes it actually increase your efficiency is the fact that it doesn’t take more than a few minutes to learn how to use, and it instantly increases your output-for-input efficiency ratio (Go back up and re-read #3!).
The bottom line question is, does what you are using now to organize tasks, documents, and communication really make you more efficient, or no?
