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Monday, February 10, 2003
Quad/Graphics Leads in Healthcare
This brief from the Dec. 16, 2002 Business Week notes how Quad/Graphics has turned the problem of providing healthcare to 14,000 employees into an opportunity for innovation.
[...] At Quad/Graphics, a printer with 14,000 employees, the company's own doctors and nurses offer primary care on-site, and the company has a small network of specialists. Over the past four years, Quad's health-care costs have risen just 6% annually. That means their health-care spending is now 17% less than the industry average. "Our plan saves us money, cuts down on the bureaucracy associated with managed care, and employees love it," says John Neuberger, a director at Quad. [...] [BW Online]
Monday, January 27, 2003
Content Management Selection Mistakes
This article highlights five common mistakes in selecting a content management system for the enterprise. While written for a web-content audience, these rules apply to almost any technology decision. The rules are particularly applicable to the transitional printing industry, as failure to think strategically about content and establish a broad-based selection team often lead to ill-advised and unprofitable investments.
Five biggest mistakes in CMS selection. Lisa Welchman has written an article on the five biggest mistakes in CMS selection, which she lists as:A practical, well considered article that tells it like it is ... [Column Two]
- Letting a software vendor tell you what you need
- Not establishing a broad-based selection team
- Not understanding the total cost of ownership
- Not thinking strategically about content management
- Not understanding the parameters of Web content management
XMLdocs Content and Document Management
Many small to medium businesses will skip completely over the current crop of expensive, large-scale, single purpose content systems for simpler, less expensive hybrids that meet their need to bridge both print and electronic media.Print service providers with an eye to the future will watch evolving products like XMLdocs, and prepare for the day they are asked to accept data driectly from such systems.
XML Editor Meets Hosted Document Management. What happens when you combine a novel, browser-based XML editor with a hosted document repository? Well, we're not really sure, but it will be interesting to find out. A start-up... [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
Roll Your Own Postage
Daniel Pink, of Free Agent Nation, ponders the possibilities of combining Stamps.com and iPrint to let users design and print their own postage (free article at the Wall Street Journal's StartupJournal.) Conclusion: Interesting idea, but we'll be waiting a while.
[...] This venture -- call it Roll Your Own Postage (RYOP) -- would appeal to both individuals and businesses. An engaged couple could convert a photo of themselves into a stamp for their wedding initiations. A first-grader could turn her latest drawing into official U.S. postage. With the plummeting cost and soaring sophistication of digital cameras, color printers, scanners and design software, millions of consumers would find this task easy and fun.And businesses could use this service to transform the upper right-hand corner of envelopes into mini-billboards. Imagine a stamp for Joe's Insurance Agency or Debbie's Car Repair. Or imagine stamps devoted to particular political and social causes. Who knows? Stamp collectors might even get into the act -- buying new issues and creating a secondary market for RYOP stamps.
Since this venture would exist largely online -- and since it wouldn't do any actual printing -- costs would be low. Revenue would come through charging a premium -- say 40 cents per first-class stamp -- on custom postage. [...]
Sunday, January 26, 2003
Printing's Top 5
I did a little quick search this morning (for my own curiosity) on printing revenues. Here's what I found:- Quebecor, Inc. -- $7.3bn
- QuebecorWorld -- $6.3bn (I don't know how/why this differs from Quebecor, Inc. I need to look into it.)
- R.R. Donnelley -- $5.3bn
- Moore Wallace -- $3.6bn
- Vertis -- $1.9bn
- Mail-Well, Inc. -- $1.6bn
- Banta -- $1.5bn
- Standard Register -- $1.2bn
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