The Printing Industry's Challenges

Paper Summary:

This paper reviews literature relating to the issues faced by the printing industry in the UK, focusing on small and medium-size enterprizes (SMEs), in particular. The paper discusses the main challenge of technology and e-business services by showing how the drivers of this industry are e-business applications. The paper looks at how companies must prepare their employees with ICT skills training and employ ICT marketing tools that enable knowledge, information sharing, communication and integration with customers in today's highly networked and digitalized market.

Outline:
Objective
Introduction
New Tools in the Printing Industry
Policy Implications
Discussion
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Today's traditional lithographic print industry, specifically firms that are SMEs are facing new challenges, structural change and implementation of new system processes that must be accounted into the firms' future if the firm expects to compete in today's highly digitalized, networked business world. It was written by Horton (1997) in the work entitled: "The Death of Print - The Global, Digital and Virtual Onslaught on the Traditional Print Industry" that: "the traditional print industry - composed of noisy press, messy inks, hundreds of thousand of impressions, highly skilled craftsmen, and a fearsome independence, is merging with other possible versions of a print business - the computer output business, the design service business, the digital print business, the electronic communication business, the global information business, and the customized service business. As a result the print industry is undergoing a slow and often painful revolution, which will take it into the 21st century just as a part of the global information and communication industry." (Ibid)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• ICT and Electronic Business in the Publishing and Printing Industry (2005) Sector Report No. 03-11. ICT Adoption and e-business activity in 2005. Online available at: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:AlhZjqJgKs0J:www.ebusiness-watch.org/resources/publishing/SR03b_Publishing_2005_web.pdf+UK+SME+lithographic+printing+market&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=119&gl=us
• McReath, Malcolm (2005) The Drive for Digital. http://www.oce.com/NR/rdonlyres/e5mepuvbk73d4weqnlf2bju6oxsyh5cqs4yqfg5xgdul2m63abcjgteujb4ycn62jfbole2zh3ro4p
• SME eBusiness Case Studies (2006) www.enterpreise-ireland.com/ebusiness
• Krauss, T. (2004) Breakthrough in Advanced Photonics Manufacturing. IST Results. Information Society Technologies. Online available at: http://istresults.cordis.europa.eu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/62833.
• Publishing and Printing Industry: Key Issues and Case Studies (2005) ICT and Electronic Business - Sector Report No. 03-1. July 2005. Online available at: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:Ub55B9vKfcsJ:www.attitudeweb.be/doc/resources/studies/ict_electronic_business_publishing_printing_industry.pdf+UK+SME+lithographic+printing+market&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=88&gl=us.

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