According to Wikipedia, “innovation” may refer to both radical and incremental changes in thinking, in processes or in services. Too often nowadays the term is thrown around without much thought to the real meaning. Radical and incremental changes are paramount to innovation, but which companies are forcing them? Innovation in manufacturing processes is something companies have been improving for hundreds of years. From Ford with the first assembly line, to Dell with the construction and availability of the laptop computer, and recently Netflix with the way DVD’s are automatically processed and shipped directly to your home via your online list.
But how would you define modern day innovation in the typically boring industry of printing? Would a company that seamlessly produced more than 8,000,000,000 business cards worldwide in just eight years be considered innovative? What if it also produced more than 3,000,000 self-inking stamps or nearly 900,000,000 million
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