Re-Examine Your Business Model Before Your Competitor Does

Filed under: barcode equipment maintenance, Barcode Scanner Repair, business model, flat rate repair, HHP, intermec, symbol, Announcements

There was a great article in yesterday's New York Times business section about business model innovation in the delivery of health care services. The author, Janet Rae-Dupree, did a solid job of pointing out how tired, inefficient business models employed by most physicians and general hospitals actually limit improvements in "care-quality" for patients and keep costs high. She quotes Harvard b-school professor and author of "The Innovator's Prescription", Clayton M....

Maintain Proven Symbol, Intermec, HHP Mobile Computers in Tough Business Climate

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Repair, intermec, symbol, HHP, economic crisis, Announcements

This quote from a breaking news piece on Microsoft's big layoff announcement (5000 jobs cut) in today's New York Times, but it could be from about any day over the last quarter or so:

". . . Blaming market uncertainty, Microsoft declined to issue a revenue or earnings forecast for the rest of its fiscal year.

'We are planning for economic uncertainty to continue through the remainder of the fiscal year, almost certainly leading to lower revenue and earnings for the second half relative to the previous...

Make your existing Symbol, Intermec gear work longer for you

Filed under: intermec, symbol, used barcode equipment, Announcements

If you're in a decision-making role in your company in this economic environment, you are looking for ways to conserve cash,  and reduce (or eliminate) capital purchases that aren't absolutely mandatory.  Everyone is being forced to revisit and review operations, supply contracts, headcount -- you name it -- in order to be as strong as possible as we head into what everyone seems to think will be, at best, a bad recessionary period.  I even heard today that the NFL, the most successful sports league...

Business Failures Provide Fuel for Recovery

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Repair, Barcode Scanner Business, intermec, zebra, Barcode Printer Repair, General Business, symbol, used barcode equipment, bailout, Announcements

With the economic news seeming to grow ever more dire by the day (we read about the "latest" bailout of Citigroup only this morning), it's only human of us to long for something positive on the financial front.  But the bad news just seems to keep coming for banks and financial companies, mortgage lenders and residential builders, and now with a recession looming and consumers cutting back on purchases, retailers of all stripes have really been stung.  Circuit City's bankruptcy filing is only one of the...

Now Use 'RepairEngine®' to Manage Barcode & Enterprise Mobile Assets

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Repair, intermec, Barcode Printer Repair, symbol, repair engine, Announcements

Alright, this is a big day at Lexicon because we're now "live" with the release of the latest version of RepairEngine®, our online Service Management System. You can read more details in the press release.

The big news in this release is the addition of Asset Management for barcode and enterprise mobility equipment. Symbol scanners & pdts, Zebra printers, Intermec data collectors or printers -- you name it -- if it's enterprise mobility gear (and probably even if it's not -- more on that idea in the...

Uncertain Economy Spikes Demand for Used Symbol, Used Intermec, Used Zebra Equipment

Filed under: General Business, intermec, symbol, used barcode equipment, zebra, Announcements

Since we're in the business of providing repair and maintenance for Symbol, Intermec and Zebra equipment and we also sell a fair amount of popular legacy barcode equipment (which is a nice way of saying we sell a lot of used Symbol, used Intermec, and used Zebra gear), we're in a position to observe trends in current and future barcode & mobility equipment usage. Over the last sixty days or so, we've seen an upswing in customer inquiries and orders for devices like the Zebra 140xiIII,...