Depot: Gear
It was a smart move by OfficeDepot/Officemax to sponsor the popular CNBC 'The Profit' series championing small businesses. Pity that its message stretches credulity with contrived scenes. However, the BTS promo shows improvement...
The Mobile
We have urged dealers, wholesalers, groups & software houses to mobilise webstores for 4 years. Latest research confirm iPhone6's are the preferred buying medium for business spending. Not mobile friendly? Not buying.
#SPLODGE
Word on Wall Street is that the Staples $6Bn takeover of Office Depot is now unlikely, based on the Sysco/US Foods v FTC precedent and institutions take on national accounts dominance... later today
WSalers, groups,
Since the 80's disruptors have led the revolution from stationery to OP, to the burgeoning business supply market e.g. Staples, Viking, WBMason, Amazon and Uber. It's time for the professional supporters of independent dealers to accelerate their leadership drive...
E M P A T H YControl is a mirage . The most effective leaders right now are those who embrace traits once considered feminine: Empathy, Magnanimity, Patience, Accountability, Taking advice (listening), Humility Yielding to the new worklife confluence
AMZNIFICATION
The ultimate disruptor Amazon celebrated its 20th Anniversary on Wednesday with a blow out Prime Day sale. Most damaged resellers are in denial e.g. Grainger; dismissing them as unprofitable. Don't underestimate Robin Hood...
The productivity
Google chief economist Hal Varian says sluggish US/UK productivity doesn’t reflect a high-tech wave of innovations that save people time and money. We agree and discuss why...later today
BTS'15 spend
National Retail Federation amd International Council of Shopping Centres have published pessimistic reports on the 2015 Back to School season. Why in such a strong economy?
Facebook: fix
Want to get someone really riled up? Just ask about users about Facebook. Much maligned Twitter is a dream by comparison
Sharing market
Reuter's Bobbi Redell opines that 'Millennials will outgrow the 'sharing economy'. Forget this mythical generation, sharing is benefitting all ages in the new worklife confluence era.
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