The dedicated team of scribes here feel that through collaboration, we can strategically identify technology challenges and properly disseminate our carefully crafted ideas on overcoming them.
Perhaps without coincidence, our top read blog for 2018 was on the topic of “effective collaboration.”
Collaboration: It’s a key word in defining how the Datamax Thinking Blog operates. We remain committed in our pursuit of “educating, collaborating, and sparking ideas for maximizing the technology that matters” - be it office equipment, document workflow, network security and many business technology initiatives in between.
The dedicated team of scribes here feel that through collaboration, we can strategically identify technology challenges and properly disseminate our carefully crafted ideas on overcoming them.
In doing so, we undoubtedly learn a lot every year. We hope that readers of the blog can say the same. With that, as we look forward to another year of collaborating, of sparking ideas and, essentially, for educating, we take one final look back at the most read blogs published in 2018:
Just as quickly as I can remove the Greenbrier vine, the pesky East Texas weed is already poking its way back through the soil, wrapping around my boxwood shrubs and Azaleas (whose blooms have me daydreaming about the upcoming Masters Tournament). Regular care and maintenance is a necessity if I want to achieve desired growth in my yard.
Providing Managed Services or even Copier Service can be a lot like my flowerbed.
Any organization’s habits need constant attention. Beyond just the risk of becoming stale, the way we do business (the tools we utilize and our regular methodologies) can become ineffective and unsightly without regularly checking in on them.
Regular collaboration is a powerful tool in staying fresh within your organization and within your industry. Read more.
This legislation, designed to better unify and protect data privacy for European Union citizens, applies to those within EU-member countries, so US-based companies may not think that this overseas legislation is relevant to their everyday business. These companies should think again: The GDPR could be very relevant to you and the way you currently collect and store data. Read more.
Canon's Unified Firmware Platform changed all that. Read more.
“Down the hall. You want ‘impatient registration’” the woman replies.
Comedy aside, customers today are tired of waiting.
Embracing proactive, preventative measures is the new standard in customer service. As organizations move at exceedingly faster paces, downtime becomes exponentially more difficult to absorb. Read more.
Perhaps no print entity feels such pressure quite like the Central Reprographics Department (CRD), or in-plant Printer. Read more.
Vertical Marketing – a sales method in which vendors offer goods and services specific to an industry, trade or profession - goes beyond products in a box or prepackaged sales tools. It’s a mindset, the duel effort of zeroing in on a specific market’s shared challenges and objectives, and finding relative solutions that produce long-term results. Read more.
Whether it's printing envelopes, marketing brochures and banners, healthcare manuals or business cards. Whether you’re producing fast-turnaround, lower-length jobs or massive, one-time runs, more organizations are discovering the distinct advantage of going "All-In on In-House" production. Modern digital technology makes internal production easily accessible. It puts you in the driver's seat of print deadlines. In ensures security for you and those you serve. Read more.
My steady stream of inquiries to clients had a strategic intent. The client's answers provided key nuggets of information for:
If there was a gap between my client's perception and reality, it was my job to stand in it. Read more.
The 4Cs – critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication - have been adopted and implemented into the curriculum of school districts and professional development programs for years. Established by the National Education Association and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, these four components are a guide post for choosing specific tools, software and curriculum for the modern day, technologically advanced environment of today’s youth. Read more.
It’s true. Many offices are overwhelmed by paper documents. Also, when compared to a Document Management solution, it is inefficient and costly. Estimates are that 11% of your paper files will be either lost or misplaced. Organizations often find that by digitizing their workflow, their documents begin working for them, rather than the opposite. Read more.
Moving into 2019, we look forward to educating, collaborating, and sparking ideas for maximizing the technology that matters. Interested in keeping up with the Datamax Thinking Blog? Subscribe in the form at the top right of this page!