Business Chief USA February 2019

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cost of their production down. That is
really the focus of our strategy: saving
cost and creating efficiency along the
supply chain at the sales and marketing
end also helps them to sell more
products. It’s a double winner for the
client enabling them to sell more product
while producing it faster through our
proven print capability.”
The conversation is no longer about
traditional offset versus digital printing
– LSC can handle any volumes in either
format – but more about e-services,
warehousing and fulfillment as well
as supply chain management. LSC’s
clients include educational giants like
McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, new edtech players
like Amplify, general publishers such
as Random House and HarperCollins
as well as niche players like Workman
Publishing and Abrams. It is also a
major printer of bibles and religious
books. “These are all very different
businesses, but they all need both
product and services,” says McCree.
“We set out to be more intimate than the
average large printing organization by
making sure we are meeting the needs
of each one of those clients wherever
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Michael Shea — Senior Vice President, Book Division,
LSC Communications — is a seasoned printing and publishing
executive with over 20 years of pioneering ventures in content
management, custom publishing and book manufacturing.
Throughout his career, he has demonstrated the vision and
drive to capture high-growth opportunities in the rapidly
changing publishing and printing industries. His early successes
with technology-driven print solutions led to more
comprehensive solutions spanning the entire spectrum of
book manufacturing including content management, physical
and digital production, distribution and inventory
management. His most recent focus has been working with
industry supply chain participants to combat book piracy.
FEBRUARY 2019