Author Howie Fenton: Biography and Authored Content

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Howie Fenton

Howie Fenton is an independent consultant and trusted advisor to in-plant printers. He recommends equipment, best practices and workflow automation tools to streamline operations. To learn more about measuring performance, benchmarking to leaders, and improving your value e-mail Howie@howiefentonconsulting.com. 

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  • 29 August 2017

In-Plant Primer 201: Operational & Financial Concerns- In-plants by Vertical & Why it Matters

In-Plant Primer 201: Article #2- In-plants by Vertical Impact Size, Concerns and What is Printed. Understanding in-plant verticals can help identify in-plant size, provide insight into the type of printing produced and typical print volumes. Part of our initiative to educate dealers and vendors about in-plants, “In-Plant Primer: From Operations Basics to Advanced Sales Concepts." This is the second post of the advanced in-plant primer series, “In-Plant Primer 201: Operational and Financial Concerns.

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  • 21 August 2017

3 Reasons Companies Consider Outsourcing In-Plant Print Centers

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,

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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 26 July 2017

In-Plant Primer 201: Operational & Financial Concerns- Financial Models

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.

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  • 20 June 2017

Justifying Your Existence 3-Part Series: #2- Benchmark Your In-plant

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.

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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 17 June 2017

In-Plant Primer 101: Trends and Challenges- 8 Probing Questions to Sell Workflow Solutions

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

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  • Howie Fenton
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  • 30 May 2017

In-Plant Primer 101: Trends and Challenges- Industry Trends

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.

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  • 19 April 2017

When Is the Right Time for In-Plants to Invest?

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

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