In-plants Need a Voice

If your parent institution has a negative perception of your in-plant, you need to do everything possible to turn it around, writes Mike Loyd, Production Marketing Manager with Ricoh Americas, in a recent blog post.

Loyd, a former in-plant manager, says when he attends conferences for higher-education upper management personnel, he is struck by how often he hears the outsourcing message being preached.

"Participating administrators take this information back to their institution and often, without doing any due diligence studies of their own situation, make drastic decisions affecting the in-plant," Loyd writes. In-plants need to have a voice at these conferences, he says, to explain how having internal print providers is a major benefit to the parent institution.

Read Loyd's full blog post here.