Business Management - Productivity/Process Improvement

Xeikon marks 30 years since its founding with a series of educational blogs chronicling the history of digital printing.

SGIA has recognized 55 companies for their safety efforts throughout 2017 as part of the association’s Safety Recognition Program.

Did you now that Lean Management has over a 90% failure rate?  Likewise, 45% of features in Job Shop Management Software goes totally unused. In fact, another 19% of a software’s features are rarely used, resulting in a 64% under-utilization ratio. These failure rates, of utilizing and sustaining business processes, reminds me of a conversation I had with a large publishing company CEO.

If you’re seeing telltale signs of burnout from your high achievers - exhaustion, forgetfulness, negativity and pessimism - you’re not alone. According to a study by Kronos, 95% of human resource leaders say that employee burnout is sabotaging their efforts to retain their workforce. Here are a few habits that can alleviate a slow burn.

In working with organizations over the years, I have observed a particular reaction people have when someone in their organization proposes a change, particularly a major one. Those on the listening end, who are required to make the idea a success, are hearing it for the first time and may have a mixed reaction to it. It is at this intersection where so many ideas fall apart.

I want to share a FREE document with all of you printers out there – especially, those companies struggling with waste due to errors.

Printing Industries Alliance are sponsoring an educational webinar on Workplace Harassment.

The Winter Olympic Games open February 9, and whether you’re a super fan or casual observer of sports, the competition and the athletes’ personal stories make for some great TV watching. When it comes to setting business goals, there are a few things we can learn from the world’s best in their fields.

Proponents of Lean Management have identified Seven Types of Waste leaving out a couple types of waste that we see occurring in small businesses routinely. This subject of waste has been written about extensively, but I’m going to “Philipbuster” here on that topic.

Working at printers such as Western Publishing, and then at GATF, he became a consultant focused on printing plant layout and design.