New Blogs Cover Outsourcing, Sustainability
Two new blog entries on the IPG site delve into the issues of outsourcing and sustainability. In the latest addition to his "Management Counts" blog, Ray Chambers looks at the law of supply and demand as it relates to Senate Bill 5523, the bill seeking to close the Washington State Department of Printing. If the department were to close, he writes, supply will decrease by the amount of work printed at the Department of Printing, while the demand for print will not likely change.
"And what happens when demand stays flat and supply decreases? If the law of supply and demand has anything to say about it, prices for printing will go up," Chambers points out. "They’ll go up for state agencies. They’ll go up for churches and charitable organizations. They’ll go up for colleges and universities that buy printing now. They’ll go up for schools. And they’ll go up for firms that depend on printed material do conduct business. The law of supply and demand cannot be selectively enforced. Everyone takes a hit."
Meanwhile, in his "Keeping it Green" blog, Tom Tozier explores the question, "How sustainable does a business or an organization need to be in order to be considered green?”
"It seems that these days there’s some confusion between claiming to use a sustainable practice and proving that practice really is sustainable," Tozier writes. "On the surface, a sustainable initiative may seem like a good idea, but is there any substantial benefit in actually initiating that practice?"
He explains the “three-legged stool” of sustainability, when environmental, social and economic factors all come together in balance. Read these and other industry blogs at www.printingsbestblogs.com.
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- Ray Chambers
- Tom Tozier