Proficiency Post - breaking news and opinion in the office productivity market by Peter Frost

Is Synnex sales
slip showing?

Tech wholesaler services
continued to drive margin

28 Mar’12
SYNNEX Corporation the $10Bn business services wholesaler, yesterday announced its financial results for Q4’11 and year ended 29 Feb’12

Read more: Synnex Q1'12 Financial Review

Lucy loves iPad’s
browse and buy...

Leading marketers optimise
catalog experience for users

28 Mar’12

The flippy catalogue flopped on PC’s but the iPad experience creates an enhanced user experience that leading catalogers are waxing about…

Read more: Lucy loves iPad's browse and buy catalog

High iPad demand
from tech-savvies

Will Kindle Fire users convert too?

27 Mar’12

Given that Apple sold 3m new iPads less than four days after its March 16 debut, it should come as no surprise that demand for the device is running high...

Read more: High iPad demand from tech savvies

Can Best Buy
battle back?

Results out this week. Has it
addressed ‘best browse’ jibe?

27 Mar’12

Brian Dunn is a Best Buy lifer, that rarest of CEOs who went from the shop or showroom floor to the corner office. He sold TVs in a Minneapolis store. Now he runs the company that sells more flat screens than any other retailer anywhere, Wal-Mart included.

Read more: Can Best Buy battle back?

Plantronics’ plan
for productivity

HQ carries workplace wow factor

27 Mar’12

Plantronics’ new UK headquarters is a testimony to the US company’s position as one of the world’s leading suppliers of hands-free headsets for phones.

Read more: Plantronics plan for productivity

How can Meg
reinvent HP?

What are its plans for cloud,
mobility and social media?

26 Mar’12

Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) decision to merge its PC and printing businesses was a typical cost cutting, centralization move. The type shareholders love. But, rarely considered is the damage done to the innovation processes or employee motivation….

Read more: How can Meg reinvent HP?

Office Depot wins
complaints award!

Multiple Stevie Awards again
for customer service success?

26 Mar’12

Beleaguered bigbox Office Depot, recently announced some good news to lighten its heavy load. The tailspinning tales of trivia continue...

Read more: Office Depot wins complaints award

Ingram Micro’s
mobility moves

#1 tech distributor follows
#2 Tech Data initiative

26 Mar’12

The world’s #1 wholesaler, Ingram Micro has launched a new Mobile Business Unit and hired a new vice president and general manager to run the group in North America.

Read more: Ingram Micro's mobility moves

Can  A m a z o n
upset Apple cart?

Competing directly in media,

devices and etail webstores

25 Mar’12

Amazon and Apple have both embraced the post-PC digital world. Although Apple reigns in the mobile ecosystem, Amazon is quickly picking up steam and may pose a threat to the marketing giant…

Read more: Can Amazon upset the Apple cart?

The multitasking user marketing challenge

Distracted users give marketers

many ways to make impression

25 Mar’12

It’s an age of abundant media. Social networking, Twitter and YouTube occupy an increasing amount of user’s time, now extended through smartphones access…

Read more: The multitasking user marketing challenge