Our last few posts have discussed calculating the true value your in-plant provides to its parent organization. Just as important as the numbers you report are the value statements you make about the services your in-plant provides. Many in-plant managers consider themselves to be in the printing, mailing or fulfillment business. That perspective may limit [...]
Last week, we shared with you a true value model for calculating the financial value of your in-plant to its parent organization. In today’s post, we’ll detail exactly how you can calculate this type of ROI for your next budget review. Here is an approach that allows you to create an accurate estimate (based upon [...]
In our last post, we discussed why your in-plant needs to operate as a part of its parent organization. The next step is to calculate your true value to your parent organization with the ROI to back it up. Let’s take a look at a fictitious six-person in-plant that’s presenting their budget review to their [...]
As you know, in-plant production facilities face a host of challenges to survive: there is the threat of facilities management or outright closure; senior management may perceive the in-plant as not being strategically relevant; and then there are the nearly impossible profitability targets that trap in-plants between the rock of being profitable and the hard [...]
One of the major issues facing college and university in-plants is perception by the campus community. Right or wrong, how they perceive your organization dramatically affects the amount of success and future growth you can attain. There are really four basic components to dictate the total perception of your campus in-plant: Previous experiences Peer observations [...]
In my previous post, I listed the first four reasons your in-plant can provide value to your university. Here are five more ways your printing department benefits your school. CONSISTENT, COMPETITIVE PRICINGYou may not always be the lower-cost provider for printing services. However, in the long run, you should be. A commercial printer will price [...]
We’ve all heard about the recent closings of some very large college and university in-plant printing operations—Cal-Berkeley, Illinois, Texas Tech, Louisiana State—among others. While this is of grave concern to in-plant managers, I don’t believe this is a trend in any form or fashion. In my many years associated with in-plant printing, I have never [...]
After 25 years in the printing business, I’ve seen both times of ease and times of difficulties. Halfway through 2010, we’re seeing the printing community hail this as the year we turned our fortunes around. While the success of
