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Berto Discovers What Shocks Buyers Most About Suppliers

Berto Discovers What Shocks Buyers Most About Suppliers

RT's resident cartoonist, Berto, goes onto the factory floor to experience the first-hand tension between quality and price. Is this the same experience buyers have all over the world in the pursuit of "value"?
Giving the Shirt Off Your Back for Quality Price and Ethics

Giving the Shirt Off Your Back for Quality Price and Ethics

Darren Turner gives the shirt off his back to explain how value is often confused and conflated with price, when, in fact, it refers to the worth of usefulness that something has.
Xerox: Between the Digital and Physical Worlds

Xerox: Between the Digital and Physical Worlds

Controversial industry commentator Ray Stasieczko claims Xerox has excellent opportunities in front of it and is focusing on the realities of digital transformation. "Watch this company!" he urges.
5 Quick Questions: Investing in Your Supply Chain

5 Quick Questions: Investing in Your Supply Chain

The "key to success" secret revealed by HYB's Vincent Chen can only be achieved one day at a time if you are going to emerge as a market leader.
Vertical Integration in the Latin Aftermarket: the Next Step?

Vertical Integration in the Latin Aftermarket: the Next Step?

Cloud-based solutions and personalized services can be transformed into new business growth opportunities and the consumer market can become a tasty slice of cake that everyone will want to get their teeth into.
Upstream or Downstream: Make Sure You Have a Paddle

Upstream or Downstream: Make Sure You Have a Paddle

Expect much more activity. Pre-COVID, consolidation was long overdue. The pandemic has exacerbated the situation. There are too many players chasing the same customers. Get ready. Get your paddle!
Berto Looks for the Perfect Low-cost High-quality Cartridge

Berto Looks for the Perfect Low-cost High-quality Cartridge

The existence of the perfect, low-cost, high-quality cartridge is like searching for the Abominable Snowman, which the scientific community regards as an intricate folk belief. It does not exist... or has all that changed with Industry 4.0? Berto goes looking.
Time to Seize the Opportunity in Africa

Time to Seize the Opportunity in Africa

The so-called “developing market” is a label given by mature markets to territories they are scared of, confused with, or too lazy to invest time and money to develop and an excuse for being unsuccessful.
Good Business Needs Good Writers Too

Good Business Needs Good Writers Too

I've learned to write stories when trying to engage with people and it takes some doing as printers, consumables and IT bundles aren’t usually exciting subjects to write or read about.
6 Quick Questions: E-commerce and the New Normal

6 Quick Questions: E-commerce and the New Normal

The founding CEO of the world's largest online eCommerce store for imaging supplies talks about new normal after COVID-19.

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