This is the second of three blogs that address how to create a strategy to justify your existence and prove the value of the in-plant, corporate or in-house print center. In the first blog, we talked about measuring performance. In this blog, we are discussing bench-marking performance.
In-Plant Primer 101: Article #6- 8 In-plant Questions that Identify Workflow Solution Opportunities This in-plant primer article is the sixth in a 12-article series designed to help dealers and print vendors understand in-plants called "In-Plant Primer: From Operations Basics to Advanced Sales Concepts." All topics were announced in our first post. This last article in the
In-Plant Primer 101: Article #5- Industry Trends Occurring With In-plants. This article is part of a print vendor and dealer in-plant education series to. This article focuses on positive and negative in-plant industry trends, including outsourcing and insourcing.
In the recent PRIMIR study entitled "Digital Printing Technology's Influence on the U.S. In-Plant Printing Market" that IMG worked on with IDC, we identified that the top in-plant challenges focused on justifying:
In-Plant Primer 101: Article #4- Recent Technology Changes and Their Impact on In-plants. This article is part of a print vendor and dealer education series to understand in-plants. We discuss technology like inkjet, SaaS and the big three software automation tools.
In a presentation recently, I was asked if there were specific times in-plants are more likely to invest. I had to think for a second because the commercial and in-plant investment plans are different in many ways. First, in-plants tend to hang on to equipment longer
In-plant Primer 101- Article #3- Typical In-plant Contacts to Engage. This in-plant primer article is the third article in a series of 12 articles designed to help dealers and print vendors understand in-plants. It doesn't matter if you're a customer or a salesperson, who you can talk with in an in-plant print center is based on the number of staff that work at the in-plant.
The latest State of the Industry report written by Andy Paparozzi, the Chief Economist at IdeaAlliance, was recently published. In his presentation at a recent conference, Andy spoke of the decline in overall work from a high of $98.3B in 2007 to a low of $77B in 2011. Since then however,
In-plant Primer 101- Article #2- 3 Typical Problems In-plants Face. This in-plant primer article is the second article in a series of 12 articles designed to help dealers and print vendors understand in-plants. In this article, we'll discuss the some overall challenges and the top in-plant issue- cutting costs.
Tips For Increasing Awareness of Your In-Plant Print Center February is the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association's (IPMA's) In-Plant Awareness Month. For everyone actively working to increase their customers’ awareness, congratulations. For those who don’t know where to start, here are seven ideas. Survey Customers and non-customers. Surveys can provide two functions. In our assessments