Strategic Planning in Scholarly and Research Publishing

Library acquisition budgets have never been generous. They have been unable to keep pace with the steady growth in information. The banking crisis and the reduction in economic activity in 2008-09 precedes a significant economic recession. Budgets will be cut as tax revenues fall. What affects libraries affects all publishers.

We can help with publishers’ strategic planning designed to cope with this upheaval, to ensure that the business survives and prospers in the future. We can provide an objective view of the publisher’s publishing plans, its production, sales and distribution processes, its major competitors, and its cost base, without the distractions and pressures of day-to-day management. Our collegial style is to work with management to create the best strategy for implementation by the publisher.