Five Questions to Make Your In-plant More Valuable

You can make your in-plant more valuable to your organization — and avoid outsourcing threats — by thinking proactively and doing things in a different way. This was the message in a recent Xerox blog, which suggested in-plant managers ask themselves five key questions, designed to help you make smart changes.

The first: What could your in-plant do if it behaved more like a commercial printer? One idea is to think more in terms of value-based pricing rather than cost-based pricing. Thinking outside the box like this is what distinguishes leading in-plant printers from others, says consultant Howie Fenton.

“As a result, they’re more successful and less threatened by facilities management and outsourcing companies,”  he adds.

Read the other four questions you should ask yourself and get some ideas to help improve your in-plant.