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  Werner Engelbrecht, General Manager, Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa. Every year, organisations produce, manage and store billions of documents, yet little time is spent on finding ways to streamline workflow and eliminate the day-to-day inefficiencies that are slowing businesses down and costing them money. With people continuing to work from home, remote workforces need to securely access, edit and approve documents digitally and, while digital transformation was already high on the agenda before the pandemic, many businesses are unsure of the best digitisation approach. In addition, the Protection of Personal Information act (POPIA) and other legal requirements are placing more pressure on business to improve the management, costs, control, and security of their documents. A total document solution (TDS) assessment comprises of a hardware review, a needs assessment, and use assessment to help determine how an organisation uses printers, how it prints, what it prints an...

The GM of  Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa  (KDZA) looks to 2021 with cautious optimism If there is one thing 2020 has shown it’s that the late Romantic poet Robert Burns was right, when in the 1700s he wrote, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on our ability to predict the “what’s next” factor in our business environments and this year has seen businesses scramble from Plan A to Plan B, before working their way through the rest of the alphabet.   As executives shift their focus to 2021, they continue to face uncertainty about how the global pandemic and customer preferences will impact their business. There’s enormous pressure to digitise while simultaneously right-sizing their spend.    Yet,  Werner Engelbrecht, General Manager at Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa, remains cautiously optimistic about the industry and believes that,  “As companies adapt to the challenges of work-from-home and ...