I think the majority of management in print production shops focus almost entirely reactively. At least this as been my case in my 7 years. Many are afraid of emerging technologies, write them off as too expensive or simply do not possess the knowhow and/or lack employees with the drive and/or drive. The current generation of management and workers that I have encountered in multiple shops seems to still think that moving from camera to CtP and having a mediocre MIS implementation are the end-all-be-all and are "process improvement". Absolute necessity or system failure seems to be the only motivator to improve anything in my experiences. Buzz words get some excitement followed by a week or two of more buzz words then things die back down. It is surprisingly very much like a political campaign that just doesn't have any election scheduled.
Maybe I have just been in the wrong places or maybe it is just systematic. I have encountered only one printer that seems to get the message and from the last time I talked to him he was not only maintaining but growing quite successfully in this economy.
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