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Redirection Yields Fulfilling Career for Supplies Network Difference Maker Michelle Kaufman

There have been times in Michelle Kaufman’s life when she pondered why she shouldn’t, or couldn’t, do something. Two moments in the life of Supplies Network’s vice president of IT clearly
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Pandemic Can’t Stop Bike for Hope Cancer Research Fundraiser

While COVID-19 has dominated headlines in addition to our everyday lives, it is unfortunate that none of the biggest health threats in the world, including cancer, are taking a holiday. In fact,
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How Will the Rise of Enterprise Mobility Affect the Role of Security?

Given the unpredictable nature of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many employees across the country will continue to work from home for the foreseeable future. As I mentioned in previous articles,
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Brother Business Solutions Virtual Analyst Update Charts Growth Vehicles

It was a little more than a year ago that Brother International invited a small cadre of journalists and analysts to Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut for a Fireside Chat presentation that
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Corner-Office Issue? Dealers Talk About Margin Management

Today’s trivia question: When it comes to margin management, how high up the executive tree does this conversation go when deviating from the original marching orders? Does it start from the very
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Konica Minolta Acquires Depth Security

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Konica Minolta), together with its IT Services division, All Covered, announced the acquisition of Depth Security, a cybersecurity consulting
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The Most Effective Attacks Are Often the Simplest

The recent Twitter hack shows that devastating security breaches don’t always involve sophisticated actors or methods, according to Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security. On the CyberWire’s
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Minding the Margins: Balancing the Promotions Temptation in Selling

It is an interesting time to be in sales across every business sector. In the COVID era, meetings have increasingly become remote, and reps in all fields have been polishing up on the nuances of
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Two-Minute Drill: Stramaglio “Retirement” is More of a Pivot to Next Adventure

Two years to the day after selling MWA Intelligence to Konica Minolta, company founder Mike Stramaglio quietly announced that he was stepping away from the company. When industry colleagues heard
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UPDATE: Canon Website Back Online Following Cyberattack

Note: As of last Friday afternoon, the Canon U.S.A. website is back online. We will provide more updates as they become available. Add Canon U.S.A. Inc. to a growing list of major corporations
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Don’t Just Accept It, Perfect It

Since March 12, this pandemic has worn on us all, taking away many simple pleasures in life. We get pounded every day by the media talking COVID-19 spikes, death counts, and overall gloom and
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Countering Margin Erosion: Pros and Cons of Looking to New Sources of Revenue

At a time in business when the sale of bread-and-butter offerings such as copiers and MFPs have been severely curtailed by COVID-induced conditions, dealers may be seeking to supplement their
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