Managed Print Services and The Boys of Fall

Fall, 1979.
35 Fullback, 24 Tailback.

First published, Fall, 2010. Al Bundy, eat your heart out...

As an avid reader of DOTC, and not my mother (hi Mom), you know I occasionally use Football as a metaphor - for MPS, Selling.

Of course, there is more to life than Selling MPS(when you find it, let me know) and it seems that football, American football(I can't believe I need to make that distinction) is and always has been, a metaphor for this American Life.

So it is with salespeople. Pushy, over-talkative, uncaring, fake. Stereotypical. Yes, some of that is deserved, but not for all of us.

Fake? What's with those industry pundits who last year provided copier sales training suggesting MPS was a fad?

Friday nights in America during the fall, 22 young men gather on a North/South patch of grass or dirt or mud or turf - 100 yards long, 53&1/3 yards wide - challenging each other.

On those nights, under the artificial glare, in the middle of it all, you never really hear the crowd - for me that was mostly true. We were simply out there doing what we had been doing since we were 7 years old. My Tailback had been there, in his position, next to me since the third grade. Buds.

Canon to set up office equipment solutions unit in US - Nikkei

(Reuters) - Canon Inc (7751.T) will create a U.S. subsidiary next spring to provide services to businesses that use its office equipment, the Nikkei business daily reported.

The new firm, to be set up in New York as a wholly owned unit of local arm Canon USA Inc, will begin operations with a workforce of 100-150, the paper said.

The new unit will help corporate clients boost efficiency by constructing document-management systems and operating their office equipment, the daily reported.

In starting a dedicated business solutions unit, Canon hopes to strengthen its presence in an area where both U.S. firm Xerox Corp. (XRX.N) and Ricoh Co. (7752.T) have already staked claims, the paper added. (Reporting by Rachel Chitra in Bangalore; Editing by Vinu Pilakkott)

Managed Print Services: Who Can Get Out of the Hardware Business First? Xerox or HP?

IBM beat them both but this article regarding Xerox's re-branding into a Business Process Management company tells me Xerox is hitting this hard.

Managed Print Services. Are You Optimistic? - I'm Feeling You

Wake Me Up When September Ends

Cisco Rumored to Acquire Skype - Before IPO finalized

I found this over at The Akbas Post

Cisco to buy Skype? Impact on MPS?

Conversations are documents - aren't they? Think about it, think about it...

The Joy of a Salesman: Gold Stars and Cheap trips to Mexico

tDOTC Managed Print Services PowerPlayer of the Week, Month or Year...

It's not the upper right quadrant.

Nor is it a distinction hashed out between the twelve members of the MPS StarChamber.(if there were such a thing, which there isn't)

Nobody mentioned will advertise on DOTC. No PowerPlayer will sponsor studies with DOTC.

It is an idea born out of cool contemplation; Sunday morning reflection.

The recipients will by be of my choosing - my judgement alone, my opinion, my calculations, and my view of how they either determine or voyage along, the MPS Path.

Good or Bad, Positive or Negative, a DOTC PowerPlayer may effect for good, or impact from evil.

I'll call em out, and serve em up - with Sprinkles.

This week - Robert Newry, co-Founder at newField IT.

Skyline - Official Trailer [HD]

The Aliens are coming, once again to L.A. -



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The Autumn of Managed Print Services: Out with the Old, In with the "new"

Summer of 2010 is waning, Q4 quickly approaching.

One season ends as another begins.

Here in the US, autumn is a time of new beginnings - schools start up again, the leaves begin to change, the nights get cooler.

Football stadiums around the country light up each Friday night, crowds file in, Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday.

There is optimism and change in the air; Out with the Old, in with the New.

And so it is with MPS - a new season.

But unlike the leaves that fall victim to the earthly process, some things in MPS don't want to go naturally. Some processes and beliefs are difficult to crack, like the shell of a walnut or the walls of a once mighty arena.

Older icons of a bygone era, deserving nothing less then the wrecking ball.

Economic Woes - Can Managed Print Services Save the World? - Get Your Cape, We Got Work to Do.

DOTC, 2010

The recovery is losing steam, fast By Neil Irwin

Another day, another lousy piece of economic data. The 27.2 percent fall in existing home sales in July was far below analysts' official expectations (though in line with some of the whisper numbers that close watchers of housing data were expecting)...MORE 

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Is there Such a Thing as a Managed Print Services Purist?

What do you take with your coffee?

Personally, I take it bold, black and beautiful - Pure.

I only put ice in my double Jack to be polite; no reason to make the barkeep shuffle back and forth.  They frown every time I tell them to "leave the bottle".

The question is, what is an MPS Purist?