Tuesday, November 07, 2017

PND Media Magazine: You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot

My flipboard PND magazine has a new set of stories this month including:

Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning - The Conversation

8 strategies for saving local newsrooms - Neiman Lab

You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think - MotherJones

Amazon could be responsible for nearly half of U.S. e-commerce sales in 2017 - Recode

And many more.

View my Flipboard Magazine.

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Publishing Software Market Map


How much publishers spend and where they spend it with respect to technology and services is a hard question to answer. If, like me, you've also been stumped by this set of questions you may have been looking to benchmark your technology expenses, estimate an addressable market size or to determine whether the way you manage your internal costs is best or worst in class - just to name a few. It's a conundrum that other industries seem to have solved with their regular bench marking studies and surveys regarding technology spending. With our industry facing significant transition with respect to the importance of the role of technology in our business success, I would expect senior management would be actively seeking more understanding of how effectively and efficiently they were addressing their technology spend.

I am attempting to determine if publishers are interested in learning more about technology spending in the industry and to understand whether publishers would be interested in participating in a benchmark study. If you are interested please email me: michael.cairns@outlook.com and we can set up time to discuss it. As a first step, I have created a draft of the software technology landscape and I am also interested in hearing about additions and corrections to this draft (via email)