Digital Pens Save Time And Money For The Police - June 2006
At Tomorrow's World, an event held in London recently, organised by Matchett, one of the speakers, Tim Murphy, the MD of Ridge Technology, spoke about how digital pens had been used with great success by Dorset Police. The 'bobbie could be on the beat', rather than completing mounds of paperwork (the paperwork having been sent back to the police station electronically).
A digital pen writes like any other pen, but also stores, converts to text and graphics, then transmits anything written or drawn, to any system, anywhere in the world, in seconds.
Dorset Police, a City Council and an engineering company were able to transact their form-filling much quicker. In the case of the engineering company the record time was 2 minutes – hitherto it could take weeks. The City Council won an award for efficiency after using digital pens in the social care services. All these organisations found that using digital pens saved them time and money.
Said Matchett chief operating officer Janet Way: “Digital Pens was just one of the topics included at Tomorrow’s World, which was mainly orientated to the learning industry. Other areas included games-based learning, mobile learning, and LearnCenter - a leading edge LMS that is now available through Matchett”.
Over 50 delegates from organisations such as Credit Suisse, Nissan Finance, BBC and the University of Wales, Swansea, attended the event and the response was enthusiastic. Said Kevin McKinley, Learning and development Manager of Four Seasons Healthcare, about the digital pens: "Fantastic! So many possibilities! performance reviews, clinical notes, training requests etc. I can see how it could save our organisation both time and money"
BBC Business Systems Manager Paul Sutherland commented: “Very impressive and interesting event overall – excellent!”
Copies of the presentations are available on the Matchett web site, or contact Ludo Morison for more information.
T: 01295 817 417
E: ludo.morison@matchettgroup.com
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