Whether you’re an owner of a business, a senior leader, or a sales representative, it’s easy to fall into a trap of day-to-day inaction. Sometimes known as failure to launch or kicking the can down the road. You get inundated with a range of issues and opportunities...
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Mike Philie
Broken Systems Can Provide a Pathway to Change
While many print businesses are posting great results for the year, there are others that haven’t fared as well. Why? Could be several things. Might be that their customer base has not rebounded since the pandemic. Their customer graphics – the geo, demo, and...
Productivity and Trends
As top line revenue grows, there is a need to add capacity to keep up with the demand. That capacity can come in various ways. It could mean adding additional shifts to existing equipment, adding new or different equipment, or becoming more productive with the people...
Listen to Your Leading Indicators and Take Action
We are in a world that seems to revolve around KPIs. It’s hard to get away from them. Whether you are responsible for optimizing the performance on the factory floor, customer service response times, or hitting your sales numbers, there’s always a number that you are...
Three Paths for Uncertain Times
What’s the economy going to do, what will the cost of borrowing be, and will you have enough people to staff your operation? And yes, what are your customers seeing in their business? All valid concerns for business leaders during uncertain times. Your options aren’t...
Era of Bloated Paper Inventories: Job Velocity and Cash – Both are Good
The post-pandemic supply chain issues have changed the business landscape in many ways. A dramatic effect for printers has been the availability, and pricing of paper. Most companies have weathered this storm but not without the battle scars to show for it. These...