The world of publishing has seen many fundamental changes in recent years, from onshore/offshore production to the rise of ebooks and digital transformation impacting the industry. Every business must move at its own pace but ultimately Deanta wants to help publishers embrace this change; from organisational change to find, motivate and retain staff to technological change to help realise greater value from content.
Adapting to a digital way of working
Next level publishers are rethinking what they want to achieve and how to transform their business models to align with these evolved ambitions. Central to this is the adoption of technology as the true spine of any publishing business. Staff, empowered by data-based-decision making and automation, can then begin to free themselves of operational tasks and offer more strategic value.
Accelerating innovation to add new value
The benefits of technology begin with streamlined efficiencies and costs, but the true impact of evolved tech is felt through organisational change in a globally networked digital economy. For the academic publishing industry, this means identifying how to deliver new value to clients, authors, and readers, as the industry continues to change. It will involve accelerating digital initiatives, hiring new skills, and realigning resources for innovation.
Empowering unique solutions
Progressive publishing production companies embed design thinking techniques into their projects. This approach empowers people to work together to identify and articulate a common problem, brainstorm ideas to address the challenge, quickly wireframe and test it, and continue to iterate into a proposed solution.
Finding a future-facing focus
The infinite mindset identified by HFS Research encourages enterprises to look past short-term wins and quick-fixes, and adopt a future-facing focus for long-term success. For publishers this involves accelerating digital initiatives, employing new skills, realigning resources for innovation, and identifying how to deliver new value as the industry continues to change.
Mining connections and insights
The modern hyper-connected “OneOffice” enterprise uses digital connectivity to drive productivity and innovation across the back and front offices. For publishers, AI-led XML workflows and enhanced metadata management can create seamless communication and collaboration tools; connecting your staff, authors, editors, and other external contributors, to rich new experiences and real-time insights.
Our next level outcomes begin with immediate and tangible benefits like faster speed to market, cost savings and improved accuracy. But where we add even more value is by helping our clients drive lasting organisational change.
We believe a leaner, more agile and multi-skilled workforce, supported by technology, can transform the publishing industry. When publishers adopt a more simplified and intuitive production process, driven by a next-level AI-led XML engine and supporting the seamless flow of enhanced metadata, it’s people are free to think and add value rather than just do. The resulting culture of innovation drives better commercial and user outcomes.
Human-centric customer experience
- Automation
- Human augmentation
- Insights