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Can office technology support young people?
Some wonderful things are happening at our mental health charity partner Shiva Trust… They’ve just started work renovating their old stone barn and are digging it out to put down some hard standing, whilst also erecting a poly tunnel to develop a new vegetable garden. Amazingly they have secured £18,000 from the post code lottery
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How Steve Jobs strategy change saved Apple?
Can a business leader hell bent on only creating ground-breaking leaps in technology change to adopt a strategy of small advancements on their existing products? Hell yes, and probably the most high-profile person to prove this point is Steve Jobs. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985 after the failure of his giant leap
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Manchester – the worlds 1st industrial city!
Did you know Manchester was the world’s first industrial city? Didn’t think so and neither did we. By the 16th century Manchester was a flourishing market borough important in the wool trade, exporting cloth to Europe via London. From the 1760s onward, growth quickened with the onset of the Industrial Revolution. The first canal, bringing
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The most amazing business turnaround story
This week I’ve read about one of the most amazing business turnarounds ever… It’s a story I never knew and probably not many of you know about it either. The original Toy Story movie was released in 1996. Wow! It doesn’t seem like a quarter of a century ago. We didn’t have any kids at
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How Disney contract terms nearly broke Pixar?
On the outside we see Pixar as the most amazing success story… But when you delve deeper, all wasn’t as it seemed. Before the original Toy Story was released, Pixar was haemorrhaging money, and if it wasn’t for Steve Jobs pumping in $50 million over 10 years the business would have folded. The reason for
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How refurbished technology is planting trees?
26 more trees planted by our customers in July 👏👏👏 With the help of our mental health and well being charity partner Shiva Trust, we’ve created a new forest at their HQ. You see. We plant a tree for each customer who purchases a print & scan package, an internet phone system or a refurbished
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The house that Jack Ma built?
“Nobody knows the future. You can only create the future”. Is what (when asked if he’d do the same again) Jack Ma said 10 years after Yahoo had invested 1 billion dollars in Alibaba for a 40% stake, cash which helped him defeat eBay in China. Alibaba is the inside story (written by investment advisor,
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Why AI technology won’t replace everyone?
Leading China and America AI expert Kai-Fu Lee, believes AI technology will have the capability to take over 50% of jobs in just 15 years… Although, he also cites a 10-year lag, before it’s widely adopted, and where it starts to materially impact world job markets. Let’s use Uber as an example of what might
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Can you trust facial recognition payments?
Will facial recognition be the payment method of the future? Interestingly, China missed a payment technology, bypassing debit, and credit cards (due to a lack of simplicity and trust), instead jumping straight to mobile payments and QR codes. But in the West, it’s been the opposite, with wide adoption of credit and debit cards, and
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How Microsoft re-discovered it’s soul?
Culture is the hardest thing to change within any organisation let alone Microsoft… In the 80’s 90’s and early 2000’s Microsoft’s culture was notorious, they were arrogant, and wouldn’t think twice about doing the dirty on their partners if it suited. Back then, they were pretty much the only game in town. They knew it
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Why teamwork is the core of great organisations?
Amazing teamwork is the bedrock of any great organisation… And it’s no different with our charity partner Shiva Trust. At their Meadows Farm headquarters in Rossendale, they rely on a continuous stream of young volunteers, supported by a core group of charity members. These people come together to form teams with a mission to make
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Mis-selling in the print technology industry
We came across an unusual hoodwinking situation last week… You know we try to educate people on some of the underhand practises that go on in MFD and photocopier print & scan industry. Things like stealth price increases, charging extra because the machine’s connected to your own network, extortionate termination charges and re-financing fresh air
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Who will be super powers in the AI world?
Think I’ve just found the oracle on AI technology… Dr Kai-Fu Lee has held executive positions at Microsoft and Apple and was president of Google China before they withdrew. He now leads a technology investment company (Sinovation Ventures) which straddles both the U.S. and Chinese markets. Lee is one of the world’s most respected experts
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School helps Northwest organisations
Guess what I’m hiding in the van? It’s a bounty of Konica Minolta A4 print & scan multifunction machines, complete with extra paper trays and floor standing pedestals (although they’ll sit on a desk too). Where have they come from? Well, here’s the thing… We got wind that a private school in Northumberland had just
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Free is not a business model. Or is it?
Free is not a business model, or is it? eBay entered the Chinese market by buying EachNet. The largest copy-cat site in China. Then went about completely changing the user interface in line with its corporate US centric branding and functions. This went totally against how Chinese consumers bought online, and lost eBay many customers
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