IPMA 2005 Transforming Your In-plant

Meet upper management's requests head on and stay optimistic, she said. At the same time, stay focused on running the business. Continue meeting deadlines and moving ahead with your plans. Don't let your employees know about the outsourcing study either, or they will start looking for other jobs.

Pavletich said that during a 2002 management-initiated attempt to sell off the in-plant, she worked with a venture capital group and was one of the bidders for the business. In the end, when the offers from commercial printers were revealed to bring no savings to the company, and the venture capital firm stood to make out well, the company backed off from its plan, realizing at last that its in-plant was providing it with a very good deal.