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Change
Subjects surrounding changing paradigms and shifting landscapes.
How Will Context and the Cloud Impact Your Information Management Initiatives?
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Change is Inevitable; Growth is Optional. Ken Stewart Guest Authors for the MPS Insights Journal.
We continue to see the massive gears of change grind away, with acquisitions and mergers having clear-cut the landscape we once knew. Everyone is still attempting to come to grips with just how billions of dollars in market consolidation will impact not only today’s revenue, but tomorrow’s profitability and growth.
And what of the economic outlook [...]
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 [...]
MPS: Myopic, Poor-planning, and Self-serving
Is anything intended for the benefit of others ever safe from being perverted and profaned, twisted to profiteers’ benefit or just maimed beyond recognition at the hands of the unqualified and uncaring?
MPS, an acronym now commonly paraded around by the unsympathetic selling masses, was originally intended at its outset to be a partnership. While MPS [...]
Accelerate Your Outcome by Increasing Relevancy
Are you relevant to your customers? Do you think you are or do you KNOW you are?
We have mountains of data coming at us today – and now we don’t need real time data anymore; we need to know what questions to ask, what is relevant to the very next event in which we are [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]