About Howie: As an NAPL Senior Consultant, Howie works with commercial and digital print shops and industry manufacturers. Working directly with printing companies, Howie specializes in the areas of operations and digital production, with a focus on workflow, customer service, estimating and prepress performance and benchmarking, as well as budgeted hourly rates. Howie's experience and expertise positions him to coach companies on their investment priorities such as web to print, pdf workflows, variable data printing and digital equipment. As a follow-up to that, Howie works with companies to streamline their operations and train their staff to sell the value of the digital technologies.
As an in-plant specialist, Howie performs in-plant audits and customized surveys that benchmark financial performance, analyze workflow issues, and measure productivity, customer satisfaction, and in-plant competitiveness. His evaluations help clients increase efficiency and reduce costs, and his services are used to benchmark financial and operational performance and to demonstrate or improve that performance. A frequent speaker at industry events, he has written two books on digital printing and variable-data printing and is a regular contributor to several industry publications.
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White Papers:
How to Improve In-Plant Performance: A Practical Guide
Improving in-plant printing operations can pay off in many ways—from faster ROI to wider customer usage and more profitable performance. This white paper offers a practical guide to implementing a variety of proven improvement strategies for maximum results.
Based on the extensive field experience of NAPL advisors, and authored by NAPL in-plant expert Howie Fenton, it details how to plan, conduct, and assess the results of a comprehensive in-plant evaluation.
By following the process outlined in this guide, in-plant managers and parent company executives can gain a better understanding of competitive pricing, break-even points, and customer value perception, critical elements of deciding whether to maintain, expand, or close an in-plant operation.
Articles:
Subject Matter Experts May Boost Sales (Canvas, December 2011)
Adding Value and inkJet Printing Dominant at Graph Expo 2011 (Canvas, October 2011)
How to Go From 'You're Fired' to Client Partner (NAPL [P]REVIEW, Summer 2011)
New Developments Will Catapult QR Code Use (Canvas, April 2011)
Naysayers and Yea-sayers (In-Plant Graphics, February 2011)
Use Your (Inkjet ) Head(s) to Build a Hybrid Press (NAPL Business Review, Winter 2010)
Heat and Humidity Bother People and Printing Processes (NAPL Business Review, Fall 2010)
Selling VDP Services (Canvas, August 2010)
Build Your USP On Value-Added Digital Services (NAPL Business Review, Summer 2010)
New Technologies that Add Value (Canvas, June 2010)
Answer Three Questions for a Recovery Review (NAPL Business Review, Spring 2010)
Go In-Plant, Outsourced, or Managed? (NAPL Business Review, Spring, 2009)