Business Chief April 2019

to what has come before. This is on top
of generating revenue from new digital
products and services, reaching new
markets and opportunities to supply
different customer outcomes though
technology. We also want to improve
our speed to market, and enhance
quality through automation. Production
is a big part of our DNA and we
need to continue improving.”
Partnering with a number of companies
which share SGK’s guiding principle
for technology, the business has
become cloud-first (utilizing Platformas-a-Service
(PaaS) for running
existing applications, managing
artwork and content file storage and
shares), alongside an API-first, User
Experience and User Interface Design
(UI/UX). The adoption of artificial
intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML)
and national language processing
(NLP) will also be additional accelerators
for SGK’s production teams.
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RETAIL EDGE
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
in particular may face significant
disruption in the coming years, and
with the race to provide consumers
choice through omnichannel sales
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