Publishers are Movie Producers

Publishing, not being restricted to the printed page, delves into eBooks, eLearning modules, video promotions, audio books, and even video shorts. (How much time will go by before Random House or Macmillan become movie producers. Can you see O’Reilly producing the full length feature, “The Ultimate Agile Environment”?) Since a major part of French Creek [...]

Print On Demand and the Toyota Model

In my heady ivory tower days I was exposed to “Lean Manufacturing” processes and “Just in Time” production. Studying industrial history with an eye towards business gave me the background necessary to take pieces of the Toyota production model and map them onto a print on demand model for publishing. “Lean Manufacturing” and “Just in [...]