To say the economy is horrible is akin to saying fire is hot. It’s so understood these days that conditions are deplorable that many people have stopped looking for a positive. Yet despite the gloom, businesses have no choice but to continue. The road may be rough but survival instincts will kick in and business will either find a way or create a way to find the savings necessary to remain viable. Often times it is the office supplies that feels the wrath of the cuts. Attacking the office supplies as a means for additional savings is quite honestly a penny wise dollar foolish project. Why? I say this because yes office supplies are in often times in plain few and represent a large number of transactions. And yet, in terms of actual expenses, there is very little savings to be found there. And yet some businesses will spend hours analyzing their supply expenses only to yield a few dollars if any in savings. Does the term blood from a turnip resonnate?
Sure you need to find discount office supplies, that is not in question. The truer issue remains, can a new source of savings be discovered within the current office expenses. Absolutely! Managed Print Services or MPS, is the newer means whereby you can certainly discover savings of 30% or more in your high dollar laser supply and IT expenses.
The good news is that the multiple advantages of MPS are no longer reserved for large corporations. The catch? All that is required is that you must be willing to take the initiative to learn about the simple implementation. You must be willing to explore the benefits. Can you alter, ever so slightly your current business practices? With these very simple steps in place, the accolades and the savings will belong to you!
Modern offices of today revolve around the printer. Be it an invoice, a sales letter, emails, marketing pieces, or spreadsheets, your office is connected to the printer like never before. Therefore, when a printer goes offline, a significant part of your business goes down too. Smart I.T. managers have quickly concluded that an MPS program will prevent this from occurring. Save money, keep your business moving along, why would you not want that? It really is that simple.
It is said that by 2013, 50% of all multifunction devices (laser printers) will be under some type of MPS or managed print services program. This huge increase indicates that MPS is not a revolution but a logical evolution in the way that organizations intend to manage their printer fleet.
IT Professionals hold the key to the success of an MPS program and the more insightful professionals are sure to recognize the benefits that are within reach. Forget repairing printers like a lackey, become a true manager by adopting an MPS program designed to increase efficiency.
Given that CFO’s are by nature risk averse and yet budget wise, MPS is a program they too are sure to appreciate. Heck, through recycling, electrical output monitoring and general print reduction, , MPS will even help a company become green . Many CFO’s are looking to increase their eco-friendly initiatives.
In 2011, show you boss, your manager, and your company that you are the asset that you know yourself to be by realizing the benefits of an MPS program .
