And then something else lands on your desk. Create folders with text documents and emails that provide quick responses to the most frequent requests or questions you receive. There's no need to write the same responses over and over. Invest in laptops, cell phones, wireless Internet browsers and other tools that allow you to conduct business away from the office. Create a digital date book, and add appointments as soon as they're scheduled.
Technology is useless without the right attitude.
When you get papers or memos, read them, put them in their proper files, or shoot them off the wall and into the wastebasket. Its integrated set of user modules enable distributors to place, receive, quote, process and manage orders using the Internet. Since its launch in February 1999, e-procurement provider Four51 has made a conscious effort to deflate conventional Internet thinking. The Minneapolis firm has never positioned itself as a dot-com. It has never tried to woo more investing dollars than it needs.