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Very little local documentation on change management has been available to the Australian printing industry to inspire and guide companies or to simply show the results of repositioning strategies, particularly by SMEs. That is - until now.
For the first time an Australian printing industry specific compendium has been produced to fill that void.
Business Insights - Key Learnings from EPICS Projects 2000-2004, produced by the Printing Industries Association of Australia, is a cross section summary of some of the 500 projects undertaken since 2000 under the $48 million four-year Enhanced Printing Industry Competitiveness Scheme (EPICS).
The Scheme was negotiated by Printing Industries for the industry with the Australian Government. More than 300 industry companies benefited directly from it.
The report details the inception of EPICS from development of the Print21 Action Agenda (which provided the resources and direction underpinning directional change, initially for the book production sector) to case studies demonstrating individual company responses to the challenge of change.
Business Insights uses two key strategy options in its case studies:
- Flight Option - exist from the industry.
- Fight Option - building on strengths; consolidation and growth; capacity maximisation; cost reduction; innovation and value chain reform; collaboration; and enterprise transformation.
Business Insights - Key Learnings from EPICS Projects 2000-2004 is available free from all Printing Industries Offices or can be downloaded in PDF format.
