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What is Your Greatest Challenge? Vote Now.
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, [...]
Beyond Cost Cutting: Saving More Than Money by Being Nimble.
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:
Increase revenue without proportionally increasing costs, and
Decrease overhead costs with the focus of increasing profitability.
Innovations and disruptive programs can dramatically impact both, [...]
Blogs Are Important To Your Customer. Are They Important To You?
“If it’s too good to be true, then it probably isn’t true.” That’s how the saying goes, right? How often do you buy something you are suspicious of? Being real with your customer elevates the level of trust in the buying cycle.
I receive a good many PR solicitations each week with this or that firm [...]
Production or Productivity: Are Your Actions Aligned with Your Attitude?
How do you start your Monday’s? Jotting down your list of to-do’s, thumbing through your mental Rolodex of things ahead, or maybe just gritting your teeth the night before in anticipation of the crush of your day?
A former LouisGray.com teammate, Rob Diana of Regular Geek, wrote a very thought-provoking article entitled Are You Managing Resources [...]
BPM: Why Should MPS Providers Care About Business Process Management?
Have you ever shouldered the burden of guilt for an upstream problem when a document failed to come out of one of your devices, just because you have oversight of the printer and MFP fleet?
While so many are still wrangling about the definition of MPS, don’t forget that any strategy requires change management in order to [...]
7 Steps to Surviving Change
Why change? Isn’t change painful?
When do you change? When you decide you need to change, how do you change?
People and organizations who anticipate change are among those who not only survive but thrive in rapidly shifting landscapes. But change requires exerting effort to bridge the current state to that of the anticipated future state, and [...]
5 Reasons Why I Bought Your MPS Program
Why did I buy a MPS program?
According to the Photizo Group, the new primary buyer of managed print services (MPS) is IT for approximately 60 percent of all transactions. I just happen to have the perspective of being a former customer who launched a MPS program within his company in 2001, working for a dealer [...]
Has Technology Killed The Relationship?
With dozens of e-mails flying at us each day, streams of news, SMS messages, Twitter, Facebook and meetings to plan meetings has the sincerity left the building? With so many quick touches what happened to the masters of relationships – those professionals who knew the key to quality time is nothing more than time spent [...]
HP Offers 0% Financing to IT: Smart Business or Deja Voodoo?
Strapped for cash? Don’t have the budget? Well, HP may want to help you – and help themselves keep inventory turns from slowing.
According to The Register, HP is offering a 0% financing for a 12-month and 36-month lease transaction ranging between $1,500 to $150,000. The 12-month offers an option to buy the assets for $1 [...]
IDC Warns Not to Look to SMB Market for IT Services in 2010
Planning on ramping up your services arm to compensate for the loss in revenue and declining profits? Think again. The cogs of change continue to grind onwards, with IDC forecasting caution will rule spending habits in North America this year. According to their Worldwide Black Book, the hardest pressed will be the small and medium business (SMB) [...]
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