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Managed Print Services (MPS) is a subset of managed services geared towards effectively outsourcing the management and measurement of the platforms and systems deployed to efficiently produce, traffic, and utilize documents in today’s organization.
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, [...]
Pain, Pleasure and Perspective: Dealing with Change (Part 1 of 2)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
50 Percent Reseller Attrition by 2013, Photizo Predicts
How important is managed print services (MPS) to your business if you are currently a company who specializes in document output? Is MPS a fad, or a get rich quick scheme? Is MPS a platform to simply sell more hardware?
While predictions at the start of any new year abound, those who keep their ear closest [...]
Gain the Recognition You Deserve: MPS 2010 Leadership Awards.
The Managed Print Services Association (MPSA) is pleased to announce the start of the 2nd annual MPS Leadership Awards for our mutual industry. These highly coveted awards provide the industries only recognition for the leaders that are helping to shape and benefit the Managed Print Services industry.
See the following briefing document that covers the Award [...]
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