- Alex Palmer

Young company sets itself apart with a recognition program

InfoPrint Solutions Company, which offers printing and output solutions for a wide range of clients both large and small, is itself a bit of a young organization. Based in Boulder, Colo., the company had been a division of IBM before becoming a company in its own right in January of 2007, through a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh.

"We needed to do something different than a normal cash award program, which I think a lot of companies follow," says Art Amler, vice president of compensation and benefits for InfoPrint, saying IBM was one of these companies using predominately cash awards at the time. "We really wanted to differentiate the company as far as what we wanted to accomplish as a new business, that would excite the employees in a way that was totally different than what they had experienced in the past."

So several months in, InfoPrint began working with Scottsdale, Ariz.-based incentive solutions house, Incentive Logic, to develop a platform that would encourage the high level of effort, attention to detail and creativity that the company’s leadership expected to see from their workforce.