Business Management - Operations

Perhaps facing the "perfect storm" of a global pandemic outbreak; a U.S. stock market response to COVID-19 that has pummeled Xerox and HP stock prices; and Canon's announcement that it will sever business ties with HP if HP's merger with Xerox comes to fruition, Xerox finds itself in a precarious position.

In this webinar you will learn how to cope with some of the print industry’s biggest pain points and much more.

Now is a great time to start thinking about the legislative, legal, and regulatory issues that could have an impact on your wide-format business in the coming months. This is the perfect time to re-evaluate your current compliance plans, and make some decisions about where to head this year.

Although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration hasn’t done as much as other agencies in terms of deregulation, according to Gary Jones, SGIA’s director of environmental, health, and safety affairs, he says a moratorium on new measures there “has ground the regulatory process to a halt.”

As he noted during his nomination hearing, GPO Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern has long felt that congressional documents could use a redesign. This week he proposed exactly that.

On Feb. 20, the HP board of directors adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan ("Poison Pill") to thwart Xerox's planned hostile proxy bid to acquire all of the outstanding shares of HP stock on March 2 for $34.9 billion. In another defensive move, HP announced it will buy back $15 billion worth of outstanding HP shares.

During assessments of printing companies seeking feedback on the state of quality in their businesses, I’ve learned there are three kinds of work activities that can be observed.

Heidelberg's Supervisory Board and Management Board have decided to reduce the Management Board to CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer and CFO Marcus A. Wassenberg, and to create an Executive Committee. As a result of these changes, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hermann is leaving the company.

The Toyota Production System has been the model for Lean implementation across the world since it was developed and refined. In Toyota Culture by Jeffrey Liker and Mike Hoseus, the authors reveal how Toyota selects, develops, and motivates people to commit to the goal of building high-quality products.

A longtime printing industry marketing and sales executive has joined the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association as VP of business development, and will oversee PRINTING United exhibitor and sponsorship partnerships.