{"id":8289,"date":"2014-10-16T08:26:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T12:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2014-10-22T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:07:53","slug":"between-the-lines-embracing-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2014\/10\/between-the-lines-embracing-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: Embracing Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"change<\/a>If the folks in this industry have learned any one thing over the years, it\u2019s we\u2019ve got to embrace change.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s always going to be resistance to change, and maybe a little kicking and screaming along the way, but in the end, change is this industry\u2019s best friend. Without it, well, a lot of us wouldn\u2019t be around to complain about it.<\/p>\n

Change is what keeps this industry booming and vibrant. I\u2019m not going to run down the litany of changes that have impacted this industry. You know what I\u2019m about, but let\u2019s generalize and say that virtually every technology oriented change has had a positive impact on the industry. If those of us who have been around for any length of time have learned anything, it\u2019s that change is a never-ending process. Just when you think you\u2019ve adapted to one change, along comes another and it\u2019s time to retool and reeducate once again.<\/p>\n

Less positive, and maybe one can describe this as an evolutionary process (i.e., survival of the fittest) have been the closures, mergers, acquisitions, etc. that have taken place in all corners of the office imaging industry over the years. Some of those changes weren\u2019t all that embraceable, but they happened and they\u2019re still happening and the effect they\u2019ve had on the industry can be heatedly debated depending what side of the fence you\u2019re sitting on.<\/p>\n

Other changes that are equally evolutionary are personnel changes. Those continue to occur in all segments of our industry. Nowhere does the door resolve faster than at the OEM level. I\u2019m sure there are some folks who have logged time at every East Coast OEM or close to it. Despite those changes, many of those folks are still here immersed in this current generation of changes.<\/p>\n

I think we should all consider ourselves lucky to still be a part of those changes.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the folks in this industry have learned any one thing over the years, it\u2019s we\u2019ve got to embrace change. There\u2019s always going to be resistance to change, and maybe a little kicking and screaming along the way, but in the end, change is this industry\u2019s best friend. Without it, well, a lot of us wouldn\u2019t be around to complain about it. Change is what keeps this industry booming and vibrant. I\u2019m not going to run down the litany of changes that have impacted this industry. You know what I\u2019m about, but let\u2019s generalize and say that virtually every technology oriented change has had a positive impact on the industry. If those of us who have been around for any length of time have learned anything, it\u2019s that change is a never-ending process. Just when you think you\u2019ve adapted to one change, along comes another and it\u2019s time to retool and reeducate once again. Less positive, and maybe one can describe this as an evolutionary process (i.e., survival of the fittest) have been the closures, mergers, acquisitions, etc. that have taken place in all corners of the office imaging industry over the years. Some of those changes weren\u2019t all that embraceable, but they happened and they\u2019re still happening and the effect they\u2019ve had on the industry can be heatedly debated depending what side of the fence you\u2019re sitting on. Other changes that are equally evolutionary are personnel changes. Those continue to occur in all segments of our industry. Nowhere does the door resolve faster than at the OEM level. I\u2019m sure there are some folks who have logged time at every East Coast OEM or close to it. Despite those changes, many of those folks are still here immersed in this current generation of changes. I think we should all consider ourselves lucky to still be a part of those changes. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,1638],"tags":[274,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8291,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/8291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}