At its conference in Las Vegas, IPMA changed its name, announced a new business plan and promised a stronger focus on recruitment. Its plans were greeted with hopeful enthusiasm by attendees, whose numbers were the highest in years.

By Bob Neubauer

• Stewardship (using resources strategically).

• Empowerment (understanding, enabling and encouraging others).

• Service (caring about those you lead and helping them grow).

Roundtables Bring Out Key Issues

Three concurrent roundtable discussions allowed attendees to gather with managers from similar organizations. At the roundtable for those in the education field, managers at schools and universities discussed online job submission, sharing their successes and frustrations with off-the-shelf shop management and digital storefront systems. Some, like the University of Washington, have created their own job ordering systems.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

An IPMA Makeover