Monday, August 18th, 2008
BusinessWeek has an article online about how Germany's papers are doing fine despite the ad flight to the Web. The article cites the success of Bild, a Berlin daily with 12 million readers had it most profitable year in 2007 and the national-affairs daily Die Welt, which made its first profit ...Sunday, August 17th, 2008
The new lean manufacturing forum at PrintPlanet is now up and running, and it's off to a good start. Becoming lean is clearly an important objective for many printing company managers. Sustainability has also become an important topic in the printing industry. For example, WhatTheyThink.com now has ...Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The Open Publishing Lab at RIT's School of Print Media was selected to receive a HP Labs Innovation Award. RIT was chosen from more than 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries HP received. According to HP Labs, "Awardees will work with HP Labs researchers on speculative and potentially game-changing ...Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I will be writing about InfoTrends’ second annual TransPromo Summit in more detail in the pages of WhatTheyThink, but I just wanted to take a moment to scribble down a few thoughts at the conclusion of the first day. Last year, there were about 300 attendees at the first TransPromo ...Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has the story on continued industry consolidation with coverage of Minneapolis-based Bolger buying the assets of bankrupt Minneapolis-based Diversified Graphics. In 2005 Diversified Graphics was bought out by its senior management team and a private-equity firm. Bolger had the winning bid at $10 million for the Diversified Graphics ...Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Chief Marketer has an article by Peter Meyers of ICOM Information and Communications on mail preferences of 18-34 year olds. Meyers says younger demographics prefer direct mail citing a recent survey conducted by ICOM Information and Communications of 1529 households. The survey results suggests Young professionals ages 18-34 communicated a strong preference ...Monday, August 11th, 2008
When introducing the subject of "lean manufacturing," it can be difficult to know where to begin. But I can't think of a better place to start than with the topic of waste. Waste is the mortal enemy of lean. Lean experts often differ when it comes to the specific ways ...
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