"The New Publishing Skillset: Change Management in a Creative Industry" - Robert Wheaton (Penguin Random House Canada) at BookNet Canada's Tech Forum - March 6, 2014.
11. !One Toronto Street, #300, Toronto ON M5C 2V6!
(416) 957 1504!
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VP, Director Strategic Digital Business Development!
❖ e-Book sales (including responsibility for achieving e-book sales
targets; retailer account management; pricing strategy; and
merchandising and positioning plans)!
❖ Digital product development (including app development; digital tools
and services; and coordination with international Random House
companies for product launch support in Canada)!
❖ Digital publishing initiatives (including facilitating cross-departmental
projects; as well as flagship online/digital publishing initiatives
including Hazlitt and Hazlitt Originals)!
❖ Digital business development (including contract negotiation with e-
book retailers and establishing strategic partnerships)!
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Director, Inventory Management!
❖ Managed core replenishment buying and returns processes in book
product group to maximize product availability to customers, maintain
inventory within budget, reduce operational costs, and maximize
margin against vendor discount structures.
* With direct reports (team managers and process improvers)
managed a team collectively responsible for inventory requirements
against 75% of business revenue, across 160,000 unique SKUs at
over 5 million active article/sites.
!❖ Some skills. Probably technical skills.!
❖ More skills. Excel, Word, Powerpoint.!
❖ Even more. HTML, CSS, whatever!
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Robert Wheaton
12. !One Toronto Street, #300, Toronto ON M5C 2V6!
(416) 957 1504!
rwheaton@randomhouse.com!
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“Robert was a great colleague! He always made sure
that all of his colleagues knew what work he was doing
and comforted people who left meetings in tears!”
- Alan Smithee
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Random House of Canada, Limited!
2011-Present!
VP, Director Strategic Digital Business Development!
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e-Book sales (including responsibility for achieving e-book sales targets; retailer account
management; pricing strategy; and merchandising and positioning plans)!
Digital product development (including app development; digital tools and services; and
coordination with international Random House companies for product launch support in Canada)!
Digital publishing initiatives (including facilitating cross-departmental projects; as well as flagship
online/digital publishing initiatives including Hazlitt and Hazlitt Originals)!
Digital business development (including contract negotiation with e-book retailers and establishing
strategic partnerships)!
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Robert Wheaton
Objective!
Have an interview with you which will lead to you being impressed by my dynamic
change management skill set that can be used by your business to drive KPI
business metrics and consumer engagement by a dynamic best-in-class
customer relationship manager whose skills have been endorsed as an
independent self-starter and creative change management evangelist!
by many professional business colleagues and at the end of the interview you will
offer me a job in the role of THE JOB at THE COMPANY.
Creativity Excellenc
DIGITAL ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK & MEDIA MARKETING SPECIALIST
47. Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability
in an Artificial Cultural Market
Matthew J. Salganik, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Duncan J. Watts
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10 FEBRUARY 2006 VOL 311 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org
http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.pdf
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More:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/musiclab.shtml
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Layperson's version:
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2014/02/15/social-aspects-of-success-and-failure-in-cultural-markets/
124. Pleasure/relaxation
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School/class
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Commuting
Non-business-related travel
Book club/group I belong to
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0% 15% 30% 45% 60%
166. send out Monday reports to key
stakeholders
4 hours
complain about that thing that happened
last week
12 minutes
pick up the phone and negotiate with
retailer contact
16 hours
respond passive-aggressively to retailer
because of tone in automated emails
3 minutes
complain about person who complained
about that thing that happened last week
14 minutes
aggregate multiple data sources in single
database
6 hours
send csv report to accounting (do they still
need this?)
45 minutes