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February update: ITAD Marketing Drops, Change in Top Leadership
January: ITAD’s Online Marketing Increases, according to the ITAD Marketing Leadership Tracker
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Enterprise ITAD Trends:
Discussion with Cascade CEO
February 2024 Podcast
The conversation between Neil Peters-Michaud of Cascade Asset Management and David Daoud of Compliance Standards, covers a range of topics related to ITAD trends. Continue here…
ITAD Sector M&A & Expansion Transactions
January 2024 Analysis
The month of January 2024 ended with eight ITAD-related M&A and other expansion transactions in North America, making the start of the year relatively active on that front. Seven out of eight took place in the US, one in Ontario, Canada. Analysis…
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The Healthcare Sector’s ITAD Regulatory & Compliance Environment: Obligations & Penalties
In 2022 healthcare institutions that were found non-compliant with HIPAA laws paid penalties averaging $98,000, with highest fine going as far as $6.8 million. In this analysis, we look at one key problem that is often a major source of nightmare for legal and compliance officers in the healthcare sector and with implications related to their IT and data-bearing device disposition function, known as ITAD. This analysis by Compliance Standards lists the areas that healthcare leaders need to be concerned with when retiring their tech assets, and shows how many healthcare institutions face major fines for non compliance. It also highlights where ITAD vendors need to focus to ensure regulatory compliance. Continue here.
The ITAD Industry: 2024 Predictions
On the 20th of December 2023 Jared Paben of E-Scrap News and David Daoud of Compliance Standards LLC held a prediction session on what’s ahead for the IT asset disposition sector, also known as ITAD. The analysts looked at factors that could influence the performance of the industry and concluded that we should probably not expect a lot to take place in the first half of 2024, but things should heat up in the second half, and more precisely starting as late as mid-November. So patience and endurance will be require for ITAD vendors that really want to thrive in the years ahead. Continue here (free with basic registration).
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- ITAD Marketing Efforts Drop in February 2024, Change in Top Leadership
- Microsoft’s new commercial laptops: Small push on the AI front, better sustainability and ITAD profiles
- Transcript: For the ITAD Marketing Profile Video
- ITAD’s Online Marketing Increases in January 2024, according to the ITAD Marketing Leadership Tracker
- ITAD Enterprise Trends: Discussion with Cascade’s Neil Peters-Michaud
- ITAD M&A and Business Transactions: January 2024 Update
- As predicted, the PC market ends 2023 with dismal results, and the writing was on the wall
- ITAD Sector’s 2024 Predictions
- Brief: Brace for possible weak PC sales in 4Q23, but ITAD vendors should benefit from that
- The shape of the hardware and device markets in 2024 and beyond with analyst Bob O’Donnell
- Recycling: 17% of US organizations dispose of their IT equipment as waste
- Active M&A period underway, yet assessing outlook remains unsettled
- Iron Mountain’s acquisition of Regency makes sense: it is getting a small but good reputation firm
- First Impression: Arrow Electronics’ 3rd.-Quarter Performance Confirms Weakness in the Component Sector
- A heated 2024: Intel on overdrive to get its ISV partners to join its AI PC program
- Microsoft’s message: “buckle up, 2024 is coming”
- The ITAD Sector’s Performance: Glass is Half-Full and Half-Empty
- Tech: Qualcomm’s huge ambitions in the PC market
- The AI Opportunity: How ITAD companies can leverage the AI Chips sector even before products are built
- Preliminary data shows improved ITAD industry sentiments in 3Q23, but market fundamentals remain weak
- The Analyst Corner: Tough Times for Marketers
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I spoke with some of you recently on AI or artificial intelligence and after doing research it is evident to me that we are headed straight into what will be a major opportunity for some and a disastrous period for others. I do not mean to exaggerate either the opportunity or the risk, but I believe we are headed toward some inflection point that could result in some major industry disruption in the medium term, starting 2024. So AI has been around for decades, but it is now that the perfect storm is forming, as new tools exist for it to have a transformative impact in our lives. It is likely going to drive the next phase of technology, which will have implications for our daily lives in many ways, some great, some not so.
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Podcast: The Shape of PCs and Tech Sector in 2024
Change Management: Boosting your ITAD performance with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In this analysis (written report, video and audio podcast), we look at how ITAD can take advantage of the emerging but rapidly expanding Artificial Intelligence (AI). It addresses what areas and functions in ITAD that AI could improve and influence, what are the basic technologies that constitute AI and what skill sets and staffing requirements are needed for an ITAD company to deploy AI. Finally the analysis highlights some of the many challenges confronted by the AI movement. Continue reading below.
ITAD sector as we reach the mid-point of the second half of 2023
ITAD sector as we reach the mid-point of the second half of 2023
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The circular economy is a compelling alternative to the traditional linear approach of managing product lifecycles. The linear approach involves extracting resources from nature, producing goods and services, disposing of the used products into landfills and returning to extract more resources. In contrast, a circular economy looks at all economic processes as being part of…
ITAD Market Pulse: Is optimism for a better second half 2023 justified?
Lately, we have been witnessing renewed optimism in the ITAD sector. While the industry has been struggling with poor and adverse market conditions in the first half of 2023, ITAD company executives, in their majority, see better times ahead and anticipate an improved market environment in the second half of 2023.
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Podcast: Will tech and economic downturn affect the ITAD sector?
By David Daoud: Earlier this week, HP Inc. was one of the latest tech companies to announce layoffs involving up to 6,000 people of its current 51,000 staff. In the broad PC space, demand has really taken a hit in the third quarter this year in demand contraction that does not feel good for device vendors. Demand for enterprise IT is also challenged. Will that affect the ITAD space? Probably yes, argues David Daoud of Compliance Standards LLC.
Analysis: How acquisitions are fueling ITAD sector activity
By David Daoud: Over the past months, there has been a resurgence of activity fueling investments into the end of life of electronics in general, and in particular in the ITAD sector. Adjacent sectors such as e-scrap processing and data security have also been experiencing healthy business activity. As Covid-19 began to fade away, we at Compliance Standards noticed a spike in inquiries from private equity firms, large global conglomerates and even ITAD companies looking to invest in or acquire an electronic recycling company.
Podcast: Deep Dive Into ITAD Space
A Discussion with Neil Peters-Michaud, CEO of Cascade Asset ManagementEnd of August is a good time to assess where a market stands, as we approach the fall season. In this introductory episode, Compliance Standards analyst David Daoud probes Neil Peters-Michaud about the state of enterprise ITAD in an unscripted conversation. Neil is the CEO of Wisconsin-based Cascade Asset Management.
How acquisitions are fueling ITAD sector activity
By David Daoud: Over the past months, there has been a resurgence of activity fueling investments into the end of life of electronics in general, and in particular in the ITAD sector. Adjacent sectors such as e-scrap processing and data security have also been...
ITAD Vendor Reputation Rating: A Look at the Top-Rated Vendors
We spent the past two to three years looking at companies that are liked or disliked by their customers. This was not an effort to identify vendors with best practices, nor is it about market share. After all, many companies that identify as ITAD vendors and offer...
Outlook: A booming device market spells good news for the disposition and recycling sectors and for the second-hand market
Updated: 27 May 2021 - By David Daoud - Follow this link for the podcast version (MP3) The Covid-19 pandemic has had unexpected effects on the device market. While several industries struggled during most of 2020 to cope with the unusual circumstances resulting from...
The ITAD Market: Surviving the 2020 Covid-19 Deep Freeze
By David Daoud: 24 March 2020: Although the coronavirus pandemic has created a Kafkian environment for ITAD companies, the sector has been on that same path and lived similar stress levels before. This year though, the crisis is more pronounced and likely to be more...
Arrow Exits ITAD Market: Reasons and Implications
You can listen to the analysis above or read the transcript above. You can also download the PDF version PDF file download 18 July 2019: Arrow Electronics has made the news this week with its announcement that it is exiting the IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) sector. The...
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