August 17, 2022
What’s in YOUR Disaster Recovery Agreements?
Understand the agreements you have, review them with your legal counsel and vendors so that everyone is on the same page. Disasters don’t appear by appointment!
Pat is a well-known evangelist for inkjet productivity. At McGrew Group, she uses her decades technical and marketing experience to lead the industry toward optimized business processes and production workflows. She has helped companies to define their five-year plans, audited workflow processes, and developed sales team interventions and education programs. Pat is the Co-Author of 8 industry books, editor of A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge, and a regular contributor to Inkjet Insight and WhatTheyThink.com.
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August 3, 2022
Any Idea What’s in YOUR Business Continuity Wallet?
Who is accountable for your Business Continuity Plan today? When was the last time it was carefully reviewed and tested? What is your confidence level?
July 27, 2022
So – You Think You Have A Business Continuity Plan?
We live in a time when security breaches are a problem, but so are physical events that can disrupt internet access, power, and water due to cut lines, main breaks, and accidents.
July 13, 2022
OOPS! Production Stopped and You Even Have a DR Plan!
For many companies, the Disaster Recovery Plan was put together in the past to check the box on RFPs, but if you aren’t practicing with it and updating it in a regular cadence, you may be missing key elements
June 8, 2022
Hardening Data Driven Print – Part 2
While you may not consider your business a likely target, talk to your peers the next time you get together. You’ll find that many printing companies have already been targeted with malware and ransomware. We get practical and build some actionable guidelines for data protection.
June 1, 2022
Hardening Data Driven Print – Part 1
Hardening is a process that IT and cybersecurity people use to guard against threats like malware and ransomware, but also to ensure that customer data remains unexposed as it is gathered, processed, used in business applications, and included in customer-facing communications.
May 4, 2022
Folding Carton and Inkjet
Printing solutions are available in many configurations and price ranges, from those that print a single box at a time to those supporting high volume production printing. They all share a common goal to produce a package that is functional and ensures the consumer of the brand and product it contains.
April 27, 2022
How to Build Sustainability into Your Strategy – Part 2
Inkjet printing and marking technology in late-stage manufacturing has been around for decades, enabled by the integration of print modules within the manufacturing environment.
April 20, 2022
How to Build Sustainability into Your Strategy – Part 1
In the print industry, sustainability is often equated with the creation, use, and recycling of substrates, but there are many other elements to consider.
April 6, 2022
When Something Goes Wrong – Business Continuity 102
How common is business disruption in print? How fast can you recover? Is there a specific metric for knowing when you are recovered? You have questions and Pat McGrew has answers.
March 23, 2022
When Something Goes Wrong – Business Continuity 101
With bucket loads of things that can disrupt your business. Pat McGrew recommends a strategy to identify the mission-critical elements of your business and a set of plans to invoke to ensure your survival.
March 2, 2022
Finishing Differentiates Your Opportunities
Finishing can be your differentiator, but you will have to think differently to make it fly. The goal is to find the things your customers want to buy and set a path to supply it.
February 23, 2022
High-Speed Finishing for High-Speed Inkjet
Learn about new unwind and rewind options, cutters, folders, stackers, perforators, stitchers, and wrappers, as well as full inline booklet makers and book manufacturing solutions for inkjet. While press manufacturers cranked up the speed on continuous presses and added sheetfed inkjet, the finishing vendors went into overdrive.
February 9, 2022
There’s a Wizard in my Ear – And That’s Good!
Just about every vendor has or is working on solutions that make it easy to interact confidently with their technicians using virtual and remote solutions. They are only half of the equation. What’s the other half?
January 27, 2022
The Wizards Are Coming to A Machine Near You – and That’s Good!
Even with the training and documentation at hand, the processes, procedures, and parts orientations on large inkjet machines can be confusing.
January 12, 2022
Wizardly Workflow Guidance for 2022
Automation, integration, and education are your three missions for 2022. Evaluate where you are and start moving toward a more optimized workflow to unlock maximum margin from every job.
January 5, 2022
Wild Workflow Learnings of 2021
During 2021 we have seen interest in workflow automation grow from several directions.
December 14, 2021
An Inkjet Workflow Retrospective
Despite the challenges of 2021, annual reviews are essential to finding a path to continue to grow. For some companies that path included new investments.
December 1, 2021
Imposing Workflows – Part 1
To create optimized imposition processes today there are a host of choices that take the math and design aspects of imposition out of the hands of the prepress team and put it firmly in the hands of imposition engines
November 3, 2021
Solving Haunted Workflows – Part 2
A belated but still spooky mystery solved – Pat McGrew and her mystery machine meddle to solve your haunted workflows.
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