Few things strike fear in the hearts of in-plants more than the announcement that they are under review. The administration can call this many things, including: an analysis, review, comparison of performance, or evaluation of best practices. Whatever it is called, it means scrutiny. In some cases,
In-Plant Primer 201: Article #1- In-plant Financial Models and Their Impact on Decisions. If you are a regular reader, you may already know that we working with industry consultant, Howie Fenton, to create information for dealers, reps and owners and print equipment vendors to help them better understand the in-plant market. Comprised of two six-article series, this post starts our more advanced topics in second series.
This is the third and last in a series of blogs that addresses how to create a strategy to justify your in-plant's existence. In the first blog, we talked about measuring performance. In the second, how to use benchmarking to prove your value, and in this blog, we will discuss the growing importance of non-print technologies and services.
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.