In-plant Managers Tune Up In Nashville
"The legitimate research suggests that decisions to cut off pieces of organizations based on these biased and self-serving claims have not been successful," he said. "That is, they do not reduce costs and/or improve services."
Chambers said outsourcing is sometimes used to avoid having to address management or poor performance issues in the in-plant. It is often proposed after a change in leadership at the university, or because administrators hear that other universities have tried it. Consequently, they don't approach it with clear goals and don't measure results. This generally leads to failure. If you don't have the skills to manage a service internally, Chambers noted, you probably don't have the skills to manage it when it's outsourced.
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.
