What exactly is IPS?
Industry Production Standards is the methodology used by the business support services
industry to compute time for all levels of document production. Suppose, for instance, you had to write a proposal for one
of your clients. Finally, your greatest, most creative ideas are all together – some on paper, some on disk. Now it’s
time to spin straw into gold – and get your creation produced by a professional word processor/desktop publisher.
So you look at the service provider’s price list and it may say something like, “Word
processing, $30.00 per hour, Desktop Publishing $40.00 per hour.” The problem is, you don’t know whether you will
end up paying for one hour of work, or four!
Industry Production Standards are published
to solve that very problem: calculate “standard” time to complete work.
Built-in Ways
to Save You Money
By presenting easier-to-produce source material to SAVA, it is given a
higher classification. This can save you money! Examples of ways to present better source material are typed, or on disk,
instead of handwritten and randomly annotated, having the material better organized, clearly defining the format, etc.
Another way to save money is to offer to proofread the document yourself. Spell check and light proofing on the computer
screen are included in the production process you pay for in the basic IPS time unit. Comprehensive proofing and editing by
SAVA involves additional billable time.
Believe it or not, SAVA wants to help you save money, and will work with
you to learn more about how IPS can help you do just that. Just Ask!
