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The historical digital revolution journey
It seems, the digital revolution took much longer to unfold than the industrial revolution… How do we know? Because author and business professional Walter Isaacson wrote a book called ‘The Innovators,’ which details the first dabbling in computing right through the decades to the present day. It’s amazing to think people (who had brilliant minds)
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Are we being fooled by randomness?
Don’t you find that some people are just lucky? There’s a guy I know (Sean) who wins most of the bottles of booze at the school fair, regularly wins small cash pots from the lottery, and just seems to come up trumps more often than others. In fact, if you dropped him in a bucket
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How Simon Jordan lost £75 million?
If you sold your company for £75 million, would you go buy your local football club? And I don’t just mean Haslingden St Marys in the West Lancs league or Clitheroe FC in the Northern Premier League. I’m talking about the equivalent of buying Blackburn Rovers or Burnley, not in todays money, but back in
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Why Kendo Nagasaki loves an electric car?
Meet Paul Bolton (AKA Kendo) our technical director at MY Total Office Solutions… For those in the dark, we call him Kendo after Kendo Nagasaki the masked Japanese (not really) TV wrestler from the 70’s and 80’s. And if you want to know why, either ask him or me, it’s funny, but too long for
Here’s our office technology story. What’s yours?
Story is the best way to show people your journey, whilst detailing your why… Our story started 20 years ago when we opened a retail store selling printer cartridge refills. Yes even 20 years ago we were promoting sustainability and being environmentally friendly. Loads has happened since then: ✔  We opened a network of cartridge
cowboy suppliers
Why you need to steer away from Cowboys?
With the economic market getting tougher, organisations will be looking to cut back on unnecessary expenditure, especially with suppliers whose services have increased in price without you realising. Office technology solutions is a sector notorious for cowboy suppliers who tie people into long term contracts, and who hit them with stealth price increases over time.
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How Xerox broke the glass ceiling twice?
Ursula Burns shattered two glass ceilings in 2009… Burns is the first black female to hold the position of CEO in a Fortune 500 company and became the first women to succeed another when she replaced Anne Mulcahy as CEO of the Xerox Corporation. ‘Where You Are is Not Who You Are’ is Burns memoir,
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How to create a winning CSR program?
At MY Total Office Solutions, we look for innovative ways to support our local communities… And the biggest impact we can make within our communities is through charities, as charities are right at the top of the pyramid when it comes to supporting the people around us. Yes, we’re a small business and we don’t
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Charities to benefit through business CSR program
We’ve been thinking how we could help our communities through local charities… In our office technology and supplies business, we’ve created a charity based CSR program which connects local companies to charities without the need for companies to donate extra cash or goods. How it works: The charity refers companies to us for their office
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Office technology company plants more trees
May and June saw 22 additional trees planted in our quest to help reverse climate change and deforestation. We plant a tree for each new office technology agreement, which then forms part of our customers corporate social responsibility program (CSR), with a certificate to prove the planting. Yes, we really do plant the trees, it’s
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