By Ken Stewart on April 29, 2009
Takeaways from the first annual Photizo Group MPS 2009 Conference
Posted in Business, MPS, Off the Subject | Tagged MPS Conference, Photizo Group
By Ken Stewart on April 24, 2009
Billing issues relating to automated meter collection were interesting in that they demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding and distrust of the software in play to accommodate this automation. Find out how two issues offer us insight into how an organization is digesting automated meter collection.
Posted in Business, MPS, Technology | Tagged Automated Meter Collection, MPS, Print Audit
By Ken Stewart on April 21, 2009
Today, everything is being monitored. No, I’m not talking about “Big Brother” either. With tools like Silverback or LogMeIn, affordability is no longer the objection. And now Dell rolls out its newest offering, ProManage Managed Services. Will this derail your MPS strategy?
Posted in Business, MPS, Technology | Tagged Dell, Perhiperal Management, ProManage
By Ken Stewart on April 20, 2009
ChangeForge announces integration with OdioGo text-to-speech recognition.
Posted in Off the Subject | Tagged Listen, OdioGo, text-to-speech
By Larry Slobodzian on April 20, 2009
In January 2009 I was laid off from a great job. It was not my first layoff, and I knew it could happen to anyone. However, I really thought that I would get more warning, and when I woke up on January 5th I felt confident that I would end the day gainfully employed. I was dead wrong. Find out 5 things I wish I had known before I was downsized.
Posted in Business, Change, Contributing Authors | Tagged Job Hunting, Layoff, Unemployed
By Ken Stewart on April 18, 2009
Manufacturers, channel providers, dealers, and even some customers seem to be figuring out for the first time they can apply an age-old technique that IT has been applying for nearly two decades, and manufacturing has been applying for perhaps a century or more… MPS, which is an acronym that stands Managed Print Services. That one little acronym is perhaps being uttered by more so-called “industry experts” and newly minted “MPS consultants.” How intriguing is this concept?
Posted in Business, Change, MPS | Tagged governance, managed print, measurement, MPS, standardization
By Ken Stewart on April 13, 2009
We used to have a saying in the Marine Corps, “It’s not the Corps that takes care of Marines, it’s that Marine standing shoulder to shoulder with you that will bring you home.” Will your team bring you home?
Posted in Business, Change, Culture | Tagged Culture, Economy, Team
By Ken Stewart on April 7, 2009
An electronic document management system is just like a hammer or drill. It is designed with a specific purpose. Have you been using your EDM solution as a hammer when you need a drill?
Posted in Business, EDM, Technology | Tagged business process, DMS, EDM, electronic document management
By Ken Stewart on April 2, 2009
When measuring success, who or what do you compare yourself against?
Posted in Business, Change, Culture | Tagged benchmark, measure, success