IN THIS ISSUE 04 What’s New A selection of the month’s best new products 07 Bulletin The changing world of work 11 Future Trends What will be big in 2020?We pick four growing trends 12 Data & Analytics How analytics can turn data into gold 14 Wellbeing Could a new income smoothing app be the answer to the UK’s productivity puzzle? 16 Cover Story The Insight of Things: what is it and why does it matter? 18 Printers Saving money and saving time with Toshiba TEC 02 Bulletin New stationery and office products 05 Office Supplies Why 2020 is the year of sustainability 06 The PA Show What to expect in your P2P goody bag 08 Envelopes Go green with Envirolopes 11 Competition Win a Colop e-mark 12 Stationery Extreme note-taking with Post-it 15 Shredders Reducing the risks of paper Editor: James Goulding 0780 308 7228 ·
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[email protected] Cancellation of MobileWorld Congress 2020, the flagship event for the smartphone industry, due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19, follows a number of no shows at February’s ISE 2020 AV exhibition in Amsterdam for the same reason. These are important events for the mobile communications and AV industries, where ground-breaking products get their first airing, important relationships are forged and new deals brokered. Despite the many alternatives to face-to-face contact, including the video calls and conferencing systems offered by supporters of MWC 2020 and ISE 2020, people still like to meet in person. A handshake is still the best way to bring people together – and people continue to travel half-way across the globe for that reason. MWC 2020 and ISE 2020 are especially vulnerable to global health scares because they are internationally significant. Fortunately, the same can’t be said of the PA Show, taking place in ExCeL, London on February 25-26. Once again, Business Info will be exhibiting at the event and handing out a goody bag filled with useful items of stationery, including pens, Post-it Notes and recyclable and recycled notepads, envelopes and office paper. Turn to page 6 of the Pen To Paper section bound into this issue for more details. Or, If you are reading this at the show, just drop by our stand to pick up your samples. Also bound into this issue is the Editor’s Choice Awards Special , featuring some of the dozens of products that were awarded an Editor’s Choice award in Business Info, ManagedIT, PrintIT Reseller and Technology Reseller in 2019. On page 3 of the supplement, we are inviting you to nominate your top product of last year and, perhaps more importantly, the suppliers and vendors that you were most impressed with in 2019 – for whatever reason. James Goulding , Editor ,
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