Don’t Jump Off the Building Yet - Graphic Arts Will Get Exciting
2007-11-19 | Filed Under Uncategorized |
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking ”sure it will…not”.
It’s hard to believe when the news in our market is written for our market. Where the same old pundits say the same old stuff and the thrill of the day is that RR Donnelley filed its 10Q.
We wonder why students aren’t excited? Are you kidding me? This industry is boring!
But folks, while we have been snoring about things like a “thrilling” presentation at GraphExpo something exciting has been happening.
Two words: Joe Cha.
Do you know who he is?
He is President of Quebecor World Premedia.
He was a VP at Yahoo! Inc.
Before that he was a consultant with PWHC and before that co-founder of an ASP that morphed itself into a serious ebusiness solution provider along with another star named Jamie Lerner - the company was called Xuma and the interesting thing about all this is that even back in 2000 Joe Cha and Jamie Lerner were doing things with content management that were revolutionary. They had hundreds of clients across the US. I know because at the time I was a consultant with a company in Concord MA that was serving the same space and we looked at his CommerceX product and their managed services model.
He has an MBA from Harvard and did his undergrad work at Stanford. He has a great pedigree, he knows technology and he’s going to transform premedia for Quebecor World. But more than that I believe he’s going to excite innovators in our industry, he’s going to kick this market in the pants and he’s going to win market share. Yep.
You are going to be reading alot about Quebecor World Premedia in the near future and the reason is because they have a guy running it that has vision, technical understanding and strategy is his middle name.
There is nothing so hard as taking a company with the cultural, technical, and operational history of Quebecor World Premedia in an industry like ours and selling Wall St., Greenwich, the customer community and the employee pool on a vision and strategies that are groundbreaking. But I will tell you this, my friends, Joe Cha will do it.
My prediction is that Joe Cha is going to do some very exciting things at Quebecor World Premedia that are going to transcend premedia and flat out change the way business is done in this market, where the latest news is that 4Over installed a Web.
Quebecor World may have reported disappointing quarterly results recently, but do not count them out my friends. They hired for their future and it was a brilliant pick up.
If you’re in Premedia get your A-game out, it’s going to get exciting!
MrHillEcoSkis
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