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Subscribe to Success: Learn How to Avoid the Cost of a Lost Opportunity.

By Ken Stewart on March 19, 2010

How does it feel when someone else knows something before you – when you are supposed to be the expert?

Maybe you are inundated with the urgent priorities and carry on your days fighting fire after fire. Maybe you get left out of the important meetings. Maybe, just maybe, you’d like to finally take things into your own hands.

Knowledge is power, but only if you can apply it in a timely fashion.

For some time now, ChangeForge has partnered with KWorks Publishing to offer you Document Solutions Daily: Ripped from the Headlines. This relationship has been of wonderful benefit to me. I thought so much of this service, I tell everyone who cares about knowing what is going on in our industry about it – even subscribing a few of my colleagues.

Wait for it. Wait for it:

It didn’t happen at first, but over time I started seeing trends and then began seeing potential future trends. I could take information I have learned and apply it with customers, passing on links to CF’s Twitter subscribers and Facebook fans alike. And over time, my colleagues began seeing the same thing – allowing them to even cite a reference on a customer visit.

Not just another e-mail:

It’s hard to stay on top of things. I spend a full day working what feels like 3 jobs, run 2 blogs, write for another, and make time to be a father and husband. Even though I make it my business to find and pass on relevant information to you, my valued readers, the daily news flash from Joe always – always – offers at least 3-5 articles out of the 20-30 daily summaries, which I can quickly drill into and learn what’s really going on. It’s not just another e-mail, it’s an e-mail I look forward to enjoying over a cup of coffee in the morning or tea at night.

How can you afford not to?

For only $12.00/month or $120.00/year ($10.00/month), you get accurate, timely information in an easily digestible format. That’s less than $0.02 per article or around $0.45 a day!

What if you secured just 1 extra deal because of this or could develop 1 more money making program? What would that be worth to you? How can you afford not to subscribe?

Review a sample or subscribe here, and learn how a DSD a day is your subscription to success.

You might enjoy reviewing a short Prezi below:

Document Solutions Daily on Prezi


Ken Stewart’s website, ChangeForge, focuses on the collision between the constantly changing worlds of business and technology in an information-centric world. Ken serves on the board of the Managed Print Services Association (MPSA), an international industry organization seeking worldwide best practices for the managed print services industry, and writes a weekly column for MPS Insights. He is also the founder of Seeking the Son, and is always interested in connecting with you to see how he might help you.


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Ripped From The Headlines

By Joe Kozlowski on March 18, 2010

Document Solutions Daily

  • Environmental Protection Agency Names Canon U.S.A. a 2010 Energy Star® Partner of the Year
  • Canon gets site plan approval (Melville, NY)
  • Review: Dell 5130cdn colour laser printer
  • HP Resolves Ink Cartridge Patent Infringement Complaint
  • Webinar: The Road Map to Reposition Your Business Model
  • Converging Technology Hits Document Imaging
  • Spectrum Information Services Expands Document Management Offerings Through Joint Agreement
  • White Paper: Creating Value From Content With The Open Text ECM Suite

… plus as many as 15-20 other news items, press releases, white papers and case studies EVERY DAY that will effect your Document Solutions Business …

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What is Your Greatest Challenge? Vote Now.

By Ken Stewart on March 18, 2010

What is the biggest challenge you are facing? What frustrates you, scares you , or just depresses you? What do you need help with?

Now it’s your chance to put your talents to work – but it only works if YOU participate. We are putting the ChangeForge LinkedIn group to work finally, and are asking you, “What is Your Greatest Challenge?”

We will select one challenge and facilitate a problem-solving session, and continue to choose a problem as long as you participate! So go ahead… log in, join the ChangeForge community, and submit your greatest challenge and get a chance to have over 150 industry members offer some of their unique ideas to apply to your situation.

For more information, follow this link. Or log in to LinkedIn and join ChangeForge to let your voice be heard.


Ken Stewart’s website, ChangeForge, focuses on the collision between the constantly changing worlds of business and technology in an information-centric world. Ken serves on the board of the Managed Print Services Association (MPSA), an international industry organization seeking worldwide best practices for the managed print services industry, and writes a weekly column for MPS Insights. He is also the founder of Seeking the Son, and is always interested in connecting with you to see how he might help you.


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Ripped From The Headlines

By Joe Kozlowski on March 17, 2010

Document Solutions Daily

  • “Thin Brand Line” Breaks as Canon Announces Plans for .CANON
  • Konica Minolta Goes Google, Launches Innovative Communications Platform
  • BTA’s ‘ProSolutions’ Workshop Scheduled for April 1-2
  • Brace for Storm in Paper Availability, Says Merchant
  • Voice to Document: Clinical Voice Recognition on Your iPhone Thanks to Dragon Medical Mobile
  • Boston Red Sox Accounting Selects eCopy PaperWorks
  • 10 Tips And Information Nuggets That Will Save You Time, Money, And Hair

… plus as many as 15-20 other news items, press releases, white papers and case studies EVERY DAY that will effect your Document Solutions Business …

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How Will Context and the Cloud Impact Your Information Management Initiatives?

By Ken Stewart on March 17, 2010

With the explosion of information, relevancy has become increasingly important. Is Google the answer to creating this relevancy? How about Facebook? How about SalesForce.com?

I recently presented to a local chapter of ARMA International, a not-for-profit professional association on managing records and information, focusing on the impact the explosion of information, social media and cloud computing will have on information and records management.

It was a highly interactive and exciting group, and some of the take-aways I might offer are:

  • Consider the entitlement-factor when defining information management guidelines.
  • With an information explosion, relevancy is defined by context.
  • Information management has to shift from control-driven to community-driven.
  • Content doesn’t exist if it is not accessible, and if it is too accessible it’s a risk.
  • Take it or leave it: It’s your choice to adopt a social media strategy or not, but decide now.

Feel free to spin through the Prezi below, and share within your social circles if you find it meaningful.

How Will Context and the Cloud Impact Your Information Management Initiatives? on Prezi


Ken Stewart’s website, ChangeForge, focuses on the collision between the constantly changing worlds of business and technology in an information-centric world. Ken serves on the board of the Managed Print Services Association (MPSA), an international industry organization seeking worldwide best practices for the managed print services industry, and writes a weekly column for MPS Insights. He is also the founder of Seeking the Son, and is always interested in connecting with you to see how he might help you.


Posted in + Featured, Change, Social Media, Technology | Tagged ARMA, Cloud, context, Facebook, Gartner, NextWeb, Relevancy, SalesForce.com, social media trends | Leave a response

Ripped From The Headlines

By Joe Kozlowski on March 16, 2010

Document Solutions Daily

  • .canon domain soon available on the Web?
  • Exciting New Conference Developments Announced for the info360: AIIM EXPO + CONFERENCE
  • Eco-Friendly POS Printing Solution Announced by Star Micronics
  • Océ releases innovative print management software
  • 2010 North American MPS Conference (San Antonio, TX; May 3-5)
  • Small to Midsize Businesses Fastest Growing Segment of MPS Market, According to Photizo Research
  • Voice to Document: Nuance launches new mobile speech apps
  • IDC Upbeat About Commodity Hardware
  • Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT

… plus as many as 15-20 other news items, press releases, white papers and case studies EVERY DAY that will effect your Document Solutions Business …

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Ripped From The Headlines

By Joe Kozlowski on March 15, 2010

Document Solutions Daily

  • The History of Konica Minolta
  • [EMEA] Sharp targets 20pc growth in 2010
  • Green printing ‘can be profitable’
  • HP’s Strategies to Increase Efficient Use of Paper
  • Ricoh Introduces Aficio GX e5550N GelSprinter Color Printer
  • New device “unshreds” your shredded documents
  • Digital Color Printing Taking on Greater Role in Packaging Industry
  • Webinar: Simplifying Disaster Recovery for Complex Virtual Environments
  • Worldwide Hardcopy Peripherals Market Returned to Year-Over-Year Growth in Fourth Quarter, Ending Six Quarters of Decline, According to IDC
  • Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) – A Global Strategic Business Report – new market report released

… plus as many as 15-20 other news items, press releases, white papers and case studies EVERY DAY that will effect your Document Solutions Business …

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Beyond Cost Cutting: Saving More Than Money by Being Nimble.

By Ken Stewart on March 15, 2010

How many times have you heard, “We need to cut costs.” How many times are you leading with a cost-cutting strategy in your talk-track?

There are only two ways to impact an organization’s bottom line:

  1. Increase revenue without proportionally increasing costs, and
  2. Decrease overhead costs with the focus of increasing profitability.

Innovations and disruptive programs can dramatically impact both, while taking your competition off guard. But you have to be paying attention to the bigger picture – influences impacting you and your customer. From economic conditions to technological advances, from global politics to currency rates, its about more than just what you sell; it’s about how what you sell can help your customer deal with their challenges and achieve their objectives.

Software as a Service (SaaS), server virtualization and data centers, managed services and outsourced print: All are very real opportunities driven by real customer demand – not speculative desire.

I call these opportunities leverage points. These leverage points speak to an underlying migration to reach utilization saturation, a phrase I’m fond of using to indicate a focus to leverage the economies of scale in order to drive down overall cost per transaction to a level that quite possibly could end around where in-sourced transaction costs might have been.

Jack Be Nimble.

As the nursery rhyme goes:

Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack jump over the candlestick.

Adjust to change and offering value is a continual fight. All industries eventually face commoditization. Production at cheaper, faster, and better – at lower costs. Now we are no longer talking concepts of mass production at the factory level, but at the information level!

New York City found itself at the intersection of cost overruns and affordable, available technology to meet a need. According to a March 2010 article published by InformationWeek, IT commission, Carole post has orchestrated a massive data center consolidation. With a sprawling annual IT budget of $375 million, post is hoping to make a dent in their costs:

After a review of the city’s IT system, IT Commissioner Carole Post will oversee a plan to modernize and consolidate data infrastructure at more than 40 city agencies. The goal of the consolidation ” which will start later this year and consolidate 50 unique data centers into one shared system — is to lower the city’s cost of operations by up to $100 million over five years, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office. … Many of the facilities and their technologies are obsolete, and having to staff, manage, and maintain them is a drain on city resources.

NYC is a perfect example of a customer who realized the convergence of technologies offered them substantial savings. But look past the savings of energy and hardware. Do you see the competitive advantages offered in having a strategy that is focused on multiple facets?

Sure it can include cost savings, and this is a critical component to overcome the pain of change. However, it also includes components of competitive advantage – an ability to be nimble and shift gears quickly. Dave McClure, GSA’s associate administrator, recently weighed in on the General Services Administration’s (GSA) cloud computing services request for quotations (RFQ).

… [we are withdrawing the RFQ because] the purchase agreement was 11 months in the making, and that’s like 11 years in the evolving cloud market.

Business moves at the speed of information, and information now moves without regard for person, place or thing. Rather than solely focusing on cost-cutting initiatives with your customer, think how you can provide value by allowing them access to relevant information and an ability to apply it to their market – help them be Jack.


Ken Stewart’s website, ChangeForge, focuses on the collision between the constantly changing worlds of business and technology in an information-centric world. Ken serves on the board of the Managed Print Services Association (MPSA), an international industry organization seeking worldwide best practices for the managed print services industry, and writes a weekly column for MPS Insights. He is also the founder of Seeking the Son, and is always interested in connecting with you to see how he might help you.


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Pain, Pleasure and Perspective: Dealing with Change (Part 1 of 2)

By Ken Stewart on March 13, 2010

How painful is the current economy for you, for your sales team? How painful is it to evolve into a new business model, or are you even certain you need to change? Change is constant, but the evolution we need to survive is often painful at best. Photizo Group predicts that 50 percent of the dealers will either be acquired or close their doors by 2013. Learn why pain and pleasure are not the only answers for your high-impact organization to make the cut.

Read the entire article at the new MPSInsights.com.


Ken Stewart’s website, ChangeForge, focuses on the collision between the constantly changing worlds of business and technology in an information-centric world. Ken serves on the board of the Managed Print Services Association (MPSA), an international industry organization seeking worldwide best practices for the managed print services industry, and writes a weekly column for MPS Insights. He is also the founder of Seeking the Son, and is always interested in connecting with you to see how he might help you.


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Ripped From The Headlines

By Joe Kozlowski on March 12, 2010

Document Solutions Daily

  • Ricoh eyes 10 pct operating profit margin in 5 yrs
  • Xerox CEO Ursula Burns to aid effort to increase exports
  • Print Audit® Achieves Record Growth In Sales & Profits
  • HP Invests $40M in “Let’s Do Amazing” Advertising Campaign (w/ ad videos)
  • Thermocopy Earns Designation of Kyocera Certified Managed Print Services Dealer
  • PrintFleet Welcomes New Partner West Point Products
  • Podcast: The Evolution Of Document Scanning To Document Solutions
  • IDC: Print shipments on the up
  • [UK] Version One: 82% of Finance Professionals Believe Document Management Can Reduce Business Disruption Caused by Bad Weather

… plus as many as 15-20 other news items, press releases, white papers and case studies EVERY DAY that will effect your Document Solutions Business …

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