A Future for Growth – A Look at the 2011 Association of College and...
Image via Wikipedia A couple of weeks ago, I attended my very first ACUP conference. If you’re asking yourself what ACUP is, you are not alone. With Komori’s focus on the in-plant market, we quickly...
View ArticleIndustry Leaders Come Together at Emerge
Komori participated in Consolidated Graphics (CGX) Emerge conference last week in Dallas, TX. What is so impressive about this event, other than the fact that it is flawlessly coordinated and first...
View ArticleAre You Ready For Automation? Real Automation?
I wanted to offer some perspective to all those who are considering a new press. The entry dialogue is and has been “how fast will it make-ready?” After all, hasn’t the mantra always been to produce...
View ArticleCounting Down the Days Until drupa 2012
drupa 2012 is rapidly approaching—are you attending? For me, this drupa already feels different. There have been a host of announcements from a wide range of exhibitors touting a number of interesting...
View ArticleThe End of the Age of Gutenberg?
Perhaps 200 years from now, historians will be calling the 21st Century the “End of the Age of Gutenberg.” The development of movable type in the 1400s slowly nudged knowledge and information past the...
View ArticleWaste by Any Other Name
Lean Printing means operational efficiency with the goal of identifying and weeding out wasteful processes and resources that do not add value, but rather, reduce a print company’s profits. Operational...
View ArticleLean, Mean Value Stream
Toyota Motor Corp. has given manufacturers in all fields—and all over the world—a model of efficient, value stream production. While producing automobiles is quite a different thing than producing...
View ArticleThe String Theory of Leadership
In creating your company’s value stream, planning, assessing and determining practical and useful benchmarks and goals for improvement is important, but the hardest part is making it all actually work....
View ArticleThe Dynamic Growth of Social Media—Time to Pay Attention, Part 3: What is...
In this blog series, I have been sharing what role social media can—and should—play in your integrated marketing plan, as well as clueing you in on a few changes that have taken place since our first...
View ArticleThe Dynamic Growth of Social Media—Time to Pay Attention, Part 5: Getting...
So far in this blog series, I’ve shared about the important roles that Twitter, Facebook and blogging can play as part of an integrated marketing plan for your print business. Another social media...
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