Lease vs. Buy: What’s Best for You?
Leasing, on the other hand, can be more flexible. Leases can be written to include cancellation clauses for non-performance. Quite a few in-plant managers have successfully gotten vendors to take back poorly performing equipment by persistently pointing out the offending performance. Vendors will often "do the right thing" if all chances of future business are on the line.
Ray Chambers, CGCM, MBA, has invested over 30 years managing and directing printing plants, copy centers, mail centers and award-winning document management facilities in higher education and government.
Most recently, Chambers served as vice president and chief information officer at Juniata College. Chambers is currently a doctoral candidate studying Higher Education Administration at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU). His research interests include outsourcing in higher education and its impact on support services in higher education and managing support services. He also consults (Chambers Management Group) with leaders in both the public and private sectors to help them understand and improve in-plant printing and document services operations.