A WHITE SPRINGS APPROACH TO DIGITAL WORKBOOKS
e -Workbooks
e -Workbooks Recording thoughts and ideas is an essential part of a training participant’s role. White Springs’ e-Workbook keeps what we all like about taking notes, but makes them even smarter.
GOING PAPERLESS Predictions of a paperless society have been circulating for over 40 year and whilst the concept has come a long way, society has yet to complete the transition and take advantage of the many benefits to ‘going paperless’.
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Continuous need for increased workplace efficiency.
Increased immediacy in communicating, sharing and tracking via electronic media such as tablet devices and SMART phones.
2
Global Trends Though the transition may be slow, overall global trends continue to drive us towards a paperless world with five notable factors to consider:
5 Growing number of globally spread workforces.
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A shift towards knowledge-based economies.
3 Negative environmental impacts of urbanisation, pollution and maintaining office facilities.
PRINTED WORKBOOKS - lead weights? The majority of organisations
Added to which, costs can escalate
organisation’s sales cycle, the
continue to distribute hard-copy,
in an on-going manner which then
expectation in level of service and
printed workbooks to participants
impacts onto ROI and operational
delivery is pushed higher and the
during face to face [f2f ] training
efficiency.
maintenance of print materials.
sessions. Though physical
Despite all the extra effort and
workbooks deliver tactile and
Training customers demand
commitment, a training company
tangible qualities, the permanent
their own personal content and
rarely sees a significant
nature of printed media brings
customisation in workbooks and
increase.
about it’s own challenges. Workbook
their training preferences swing
authors struggle to keep the content
between print and online training.
of such publications relevant and
These demands increase
up-to-date. Understandably, issues
the complexity of
arise regarding the need to control
a training
text, images, formatting, version control, file sizes, printing, binding, distribution and delivery.
E-WORKBOOK - making notes work harder White Springs recognises the effectiveness that f2f training offers and the need to ensure efficiency in its ongoing deployment to clients. With this in mind, our team of experts has developed DeNotePro, a digital notebook which, using the best technology, allows participants of training to continue expressing and recording their ideas in a natural way. e-Workbook is an online application that works on both Android tablet and Apple iPad. It looks and functions like a traditional paper notebook and keeps what participants find useful about taking notes. Importantly, it makes each note ‘smarter’, in more ways than one.