GRAPH EXPO 2006: Management Information Systems — MIS: Front and Center

To set the stage, the Executive Outlook conference was once again held on the Saturday prior to the show. One of the featured presenters was Donald Goldman, principal with the ConsultWare consulting firm in Marblehead, MA, and a long-recognized MIS authority.

Goldman contends that the technology exists—and, in fact, has been around for quite a while—to achieve the end-to-end integrated print workflow with the MIS as the system of record. “But it requires best practices with regards to driving the work through production, starting with the estimate/job plan. Management must support the discipline to force the full use of the MIS with electronic job tickets and that scheduling changes are made in the print management system to drive the job/workflow,” he says.