Darren Ryan, Deanta

Darren Ryan didn't follow the corporate ladder—he jumped off it. After climbing the ranks at an established publishing vendor, watching the industry race to the bottom through outsourcing, he made a counterintuitive move: and set up his own company. What emerged was Deanta —a two-centre publishing solutions business founded on a faith in culture and technology.
In episode four of Deanta's Trends in Academic Publishing podcast, Darren talks about why he cross-trained his staff and encouraged direct customer access over the fragmented task-based model that dominated the industry, how he built a non-hierarchical team 5,000 miles away, and why technology alone will never be the answer. He also reveals his conviction that the publishing industry is about to undergo massive transformation, and why there's only one route of travel: everybody has to become a technology company.

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