One thing we can be sure of is your business environment will change. If I look back 15 years the business environment was very different from today, 15 years before that it is almost unrecognisable. I was going to start this blog by saying that people do not like change, but this is really not true. Facebook started in 2004, Twitter started in 2006 and the first iPhone came out in 2007, look how big they are now. If we take Twitter as an example, 0 users in 2006 to 500 million in 2012, only 6 years.
The change being brought about by these technologies is still in its infancy in the business environment, but it shows that people can adopt changes very quickly. People are more resistant to change in the business environment for many reasons, but despite this resistance, our business environment is changing quite quickly.
In many businesses the system to manage keys has been the same for over 100 years; keys are issued and returned using a paper log book to record and manage them. This has already changed for some high-security organizations but for many they still use the 100-year-old paper log book. If you still use a paper log book, change is only round the corner. The question is not will I change my key management system but why, how, and when; questions that I will return to in future posts.
New technologies mean that information can be read from key fobs and ID cards easily, quickly, and cheaply. When you combine this with the internet, mobile devices, and cloud computing, you can be assured the pace of change is about to pick up.
Managing keys electronically saves time and improves accuracy; this in turn enables you to give a better service to your customers, both Landlords and Tenants.