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from the PRESIDENT of NOPA

May 01, 2008; Bates, Chris ... Spring is here-the official beginning of the second quarter and the unofficial kickoff to the 2008 trade show season. Within the cover months of this issue (May-June), dealers will be exposed to, among other things, the is.group's annual conference in May and the Merchandise Mart's office ...

Office Furniture: Where Should You Focus?

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... for years, there have been many office products dealers selling office furniture as part of their product mix to customers. It makes perfect sense; after all, if a dealer already had an established relationship with a customer, to ask them where they ordered their office furniture and to then ...

The Strategic Priority of Talent: Part 2

May 01, 2008; Guthridge, Matt; Lawson, Emily; Komm, Asmus ... much has happened in the last ten years to redefine the talent issues facing companies. Some organizations are grappling successfully with the challenges, but others urgently need to start working on them. According to a recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, for example, a ...

Elevating Business Performance

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... through Document Process Management Advanced document management practices contribute substantial business value and markedly improve document process performance. Managing documents throughout their lifecycle (creation through disposal) is one of these advanced practices. Yet while 90 ...

The Link to Business Benefits

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The path toward business improvement only begins with document imaging. The executives surveyed linked other advanced document management practices - including automated print/mail workflow, records management, enterprise-wide print/copy, mail and shipping, and legal discovery - with a high ...

KEY STAGES IN THE DOCUMENT LIFECYCLE

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The lifecycle of a document begins at its creation, evolves through distribution, printing, storage and access, and ends with archiving or disposal. An advanced document lifecycle management approach focuses on managing the interlinked processes that comprise this complete cycle of events in ...

Cash Ebb: Take Steps to Prevent It Today

May 01, 2008; Kuhn, Bill ... Peter Drucker said it so well. "In turbulent times, liquidity is more important than earnings ...a business can survive long periods of low earnings or low revenues if it has adequate cash flow ...in turbulent times, the balance sheet becomes more important than the income statement ...it is ...

product registry

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 1 Wireless USB Modem The Compass 597 USB modem combines high-speed mobile broadband access to EV-DO Revision A networks with a microSD card slot for storage, all in a small USB stick. The Compass 597 offers TRU-lnstall software; a microSD memory card slot for expanded functionality; and ...

ILLEGAL PASS-THROUGHS: Don't Get a Pass in House

May 01, 2008; Miller, Paul A ... I am pleased to announce that in just a short period of time the industry has had real success in gaining national attention on illegal small business pass-throughs, due to efforts by NOPA at last month's House of Representatives hearing. The hearing helped to shed light not only on the issues ...

NOPA Members: Get Business Training Online

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Since late 2007, NOPA has offered its members online training through the Total Training Network. The portal for this service is only available in the Members Only section of the NOPA website (www.nopanet.rg). TTN has assembled full-motion video training programs from the world's finest ...

NOPA Highlights Independents' Unity

May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The National Office Product Alliance's eighth annual Legislative Conference, held April 1-2 in Washington, DC. brought dozens of independent office product dealers to Washington to lobby their elected representatives and senators on legislative issues affecting the industry. Dealers were joined ...