Services: Business Process Outsourcing

Many publishing companies are faced with the dilemma of rising factor costs with a limited capability to increase prices or extrude further supply-chain efficiencies to compensate. Outsourcing is an effective tool to radically revise the publisher's value chain and often results in lower operating expenses and significant opportunities for new business development spending which, in turn, lead to more business opportunities. Specifically, publishers may opt to do some or all of the following:

• Revise and transform the way the business works
• Increase profitability while also providing more dollars for investment
• Create sustainable financial improvement rather than one-off gains
• Gain greater operating flexibility, enabling the business to scale either up or down depending on circumstances while maintaining optimal profit margins.

Information Media Partners has had direct experience working with companies that have faced similar challenges and, via a designed and progressive program of reengineering and outsourcing, have been able to reduce cycle times, significantly increase process volumes and reduce unit factor costs to as little as 10% of the original level.