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Why Research and Development is Important
Many companies have flourished while others have fizzled due to plethora of reasons. Throughout Pack Protocols LLC endeavors we have come across one common theme where company’s products either thrive or perish. It is related to research and development. In most...
Consultant vs. In-house staff
In the past decade there has been a dramatic shift in the types of workers companies hire to complete projects. For the past fifty to sixty years, the majority type of work was typically direct hire workers. As legal policies and business practices have evolved, so...
New Years Packaging Resolutions
As we start a new calendar year, companies begin to roll out new initiatives and policies. Based on prior experience, a lot of meetings are scheduled in the first few months of the new year to map out what projects are going to be tackled. Packaging always comes into...
Packaging Busts: Usability
This edition of Packaging Busts is a bit different as we go beyond the obvious packaging missteps and delve into a common error: Usability. The issue of usability can be caused in the packaging development world in several formats ranging from creating original...
Packaging Busts: Containment
In this installment of Packaging Busts, we look at one of the basic essential characteristics of what a package is intended for: Containment. Packages such as pots made from various materials including: metals, stone, and probably the most common clay, sand, or mud...
Packaging Busts
Over the years, Pack Protocols has come across obvious and ambiguous packaging oversights. After witnessing multiple packaging anomalies we decided to put together a new series dedicated to packaging related blunders. The intent is not to emphasize the wrong doing of...
Slow is Fast
In the past couple of years it has been apparent in the “churn and burn” motto has been echoed throughout the corporate world. Executives continuously have their blinders on focusing only on their own interests. Too often many companies jump to conclusions and produce...
The Misconception of Ad hoc
The Misconception of Ad hoc Current micro-business worlds are constantly becoming faster and faster as new technologies are being adopted. Along with the fervor of every project being accelerated, the concept of ad hoc has seethed into a majority of corporation’s...
Primitive Packaging
Primitive Packaging There is a movement of society where people are straying from complex components and man-made goods. The coined term of “natural products” is in response to the countless environmental, safety, and health issues experienced and caused by humans. As...
Packaging Prospects
Packaging Prospects: What are the important goals for your packaging project? Everyday packaging projects may seem relatively simple and mundane to many. Until someone is involved in an actual packaging project, light cannot be shed on the complexity. Similar to any...