Do you remember the first time you put on a pair of glasses? Maybe, like me, you were in middle school, sitting in the doctor’s chair and looking out the window as he slid the glasses down onto the bridge of your nose for the first time. Suddenly, everything was clear. The greens in the trees seem brighter… and are […]
If you’re like most IT leaders, your life revolves around numbers: response SLAs, Uptime, Performance, Utilization. So when I ask you about reverse logistics, first let me give you an eye-popping number – $200,000,000,000 – Two Hundred Billion Dollars in returns annually. That’s the annual value of product returns as […]
Every day people return or trade-in mobile phones across the world in an immense number of locations and for different a variety of reasons. But what stories do those old phones have to tell? What lessons can we learn? And how do these discoveries inform our future decisions?
The hardware refresh is dead. Long live the hardware refresh. Hardware refresh cycles have recovered since the great recession stretched them out to 5-7 years. They since recovered somewhat with most datacenters hovering around the 5-year mark. But changing conditions threaten even that number.
Last time we talked about how to set a project up for success, but what do you do if things start to break down mid-project anyway? This week learn to handle hiccups.
Whether you’re a consultant or an internal project team, finishing well isn’t just about doing the job and walking away to the next engagement. What happens as you leave matters just as much, if not more. We’ve talked about starting well and how to adjust mid-course. This time we’ll cover the most crucial part — […]
Faster hardware refresh cycles contribute to e-waste and introduce a “brave new world” for ITAD
Atlanta, Jan. 13, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Apto Solutions, a global leader in Information Technology Asset Disposition (ITAD) and Lifecycle Asset Management Solutions, has been positioned as a “Visionary” in Gartner’s December 2013 Global ITAD Magic Quadrant. The recently published ITAD Magic Quadrant has shifted from […]
Sure, we have certifications. But so do a lot of companies. The importance of certifications isn’t in having them, it’s in the change in mindset and process that they represent in your organization. Here are the certifications that we chose and why we put in the work to get them.
Apto Solutions proudly announces the successful eStewards® certification of the last of their ITAD (Information Technology Asset Disposition) facilities. With the certification of its Milpitas, CA facility, Apto Solutions certifies its commitment to world-class environmental stewardship and the reduction of the […]