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| Summit Media Partners can help you increase your revenue, decrease your costs, and improve the quality of your newspapers and other media. From competitive analysis to workflow studies to strategy deployment, we can help you face the challenges of a competitive environment.
Summit has worked with businesses and membership associations to develop powerful, secure and anonymous benchmarking studies. Member companies report key operating statistics in a secure and confidential form, and receive personalized reports that show their performance relative to similar companies in their business, using key ratios for their industry.
Focusing on key performance measures helps your organization work together to achieve its strategic goals. We can help your front line managers strengthen their skills in quality and measurement tools. We can help you select key performance indicators and design a dashboard that will let you see at a glance if operational measures are on target.
We can analyze your internal operations as well as your competitive position to identify strengths and opportunities. The result: specific steps you can take to create or maintain competitive advantage in your market.
Summit will help you reengineer your internal processes to eliminate redundant work, reduce errors, and cut cycle time. We not only develop a new process with lower costs and higher quality, we work with your employees so that they gain the skills to analyze, redesign, and continuously improve processes on their own.
With extensive experience in software design and development, we can help you evaluate computer systems that will fit your needs. We evaluate your current work processes and technology in the areas you want to improve, as well as the available systems and custom development options. Our recommendations show you how to optimize your workflow by taking advantage of new technology, and select vendors and products that match your needs.
Effective leadership requires a blend of communication, vision, self awareness, and judgement. Executive coaching helps you achieve your goals by strengthening these skills.
The Balanced Scorecard is the most effective way to align your company around key strategic goals, and to successfully implement your strategy. Summit can help you implement a complete Balanced Scorecard for your company, enabling you to communicate your strategic objectives and show the cause and effect links between the key objectives for all departments and functions. Call us today to learn more about how a Balanced Scorecard will get your whole company achieving higher profits, better customer satisfaction, improved internal efficiency, and a more capable workforce.
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| If your work involves using computers, if your office has copies of any computer-related periodicals around, or if you share your company lunchroom with computer professionals, then you’ve probably heard of “open source” software. But what is it? Why does it matter?
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This article by Tom Arnold was orginially published in the March 2003 edition of Newspapers & Technology. It discusses how newspapers are using tools like Open Office (a replacement for the Microsoft ® Office suite) for basic office work, as well as content management systems like Cofax and Props to implement their online news presence.
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| Newspaper advertising is sold in much the same way as it was forty years ago. It doesn't have to be that way. Advertisers and newspapers are missing out on technologies that could make advertising better and easier.
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| A suggestion I often make to my clients is to remember to “speak with data.” This is not profound or complex, nor is it a phrase of my invention. It’s a widely used concept in the world of continuous improvement, or Kaizen. Like many simple ideas, it is powerful.
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 If you ever have disputes over who met their production deadlines, and who didn't, here is a way to remove one source of disagreement.
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Many technological changes bring with them huge organizational impact. You won´t be able to just hook up a new computer without changing how people communicate with each other and work together within your newspaper. If you try to do that, you´ll either fail or you will miss huge opportunities for working more effectively.
Welcome to change management. An entire field of study is devoted to change management and its impact on organizations. What are some of the changes you can expect? How can you prepare for success? Welcome to change management.
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| It’s the start of a new year, so let’s take a look forward at some trends that we expect will continue to affect how newspapers gather, prepare and deliver both news and advertising.
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| Results of a recent survey of news librarians conducted in September 2003 concerning access to news archives. What are major newspapers doing to maximize the value of their archives and serve the public best?
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| Media companies have grown complex. Even a single newspaper has multiple streams of revenue from circulation and several different kinds of advertising and commercial printing. But most newspapers and broadcast media today are part of groups, a portfolio of similar or complementary media that contribute to the success of the whole. Under these circumstances, keeping the component parts working together to achieve strategic objectives requires careful coordination.
The Balanced Scorecard is powerful tool for aligning all your company's resources to work together. It builds consensus among management about strategic goals, communicates strategy in clear terms to employees, and builds a framework for ongoing monitoring and measurement of performance.
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