In this post, Howie Fenton previews his IPMA conference presentation designed to help in-plants in your recovery from the last two and a half years. He offers suggestions for dealing with four top issues: declining volumes, hiring new staff, and minimizing complaints about pricing, and the impact of the paper shortage.
To celebrate the IPMA's in-plant awareness month, this article talks about combining some new strategies to increase customer satisfaction, awareness, and sales. The ability to demonstrate shop value has been threatened as more customers work from home and more communication, marketing, and sales activities have switched to video communications. Using video for communications and demonstrating services can help in-plants increase satisfaction, awareness and sales.
In this article, we discuss print applications that are likely to decline and grow post-pandemic and a strategy to help you win back clients of your in-plant that may have outsourced their work during the pandemic. Using this knowledge will help you negotiate the twists and turns in product demand.
Inspired by in-plant awareness month, this post talks about the often-overlooked importance of understanding product and service awareness and offers five ideas to help you increase your in-plant’s awareness.
3 tips to lay the building blocks to be a data-driven In-plant operation. Answer questions about which KPIs are important and identify the data collection frequency and tools.
The idea for this post came from answers to interviews in a recent IPMA research report that shows how some in-plant leaders are trying new answers to old questions. This article describes five “out of the box” solutions in-plants have used and offers seven ways to help you get outside your “box.”
Preliminary Results of In-plant Survey Show Strength. At the recent IPMA conference in Louisville, Kentucky we released the preliminary results from the 2019 "The Next Generation Tactics and Strategies for In-Plant Service Providers" survey. The results are some of the best data for in-plants reported in decades: 81% reported they met their financial objectives last
A panel of three healthcare in-plants share ideas and experiences that have made them front runners with winning operations. Each panelist briefly discusses one idea in four topic areas, including: shop transformation, process improvement, culture and growing new leaders.
Two in-plant "families" compete to see who is most knowledge about workflow. Who will win? It could be you- download the audience follow-along sheet and learn as you watch. Send us your completed sheet and earn a prize! A fun and educational take on the classic game show.
See what you missed at IPMA 2019 by watching these short daily conference highlight videos. Be sure to watch the Papa John's in-plant tour video.