From Chapter 3 of the essay · Simplify · draft · 4 min read

The hidden hours print steals from your team

Opening hook

The invoice tells you what print cost. It does not tell you what print cost. There is a difference, and it shows up nowhere in the accounts.

Core argument

Most associations underestimate the internal time print consumes by a factor of three or more. Not the design hours, which are at least counted. The other hours. Chasing a quote. Checking artwork. Correcting artwork that came back wrong. Phoning the printer because a delivery missed an event. Apologising to a board member. Re-briefing a designer because the brief was never written down.

The Simplify framing

Tie back to Chapter 3. Single point of contact. Documented standards. One workflow rather than seven. Connect each fix to a concrete hour saved. RoPS dimension: Internal time recovered.

This is the territory of Chapter 3. This is the territory of Chapter 3. The full chapter sets out the operational map