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Originally Posted by Ritter
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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Ritter - I don't really disagree with your view about the fear of emerging technologies, but I think it's important to make the point that technology is not always required to make significant improvements to business processes. In fact, many lean gurus argue that it is critical to understand and simplify business processes before you use technology tools to automate those processes. What about the many process improvement opportunities that don't require significant technology investments?
