Paul Wlodarczyk

VP & Practice Leader
Earley Information Science

Paul Wlodarczyk leads technology selection and strategy engagements for Earley Information Science. Technology selection projects focus on enterprise content management, search, user experience, and taxonomy management software. Strategy projects focus on business process improvement, metadata management, and knowledge management, with an emphasis on roadmap planning, ROI analysis, and quick win strategies.
Paul helps clients compete by improving their content lifecycles - business processes and workflows that span content collaboration, management, localization, publishing, and search. Paul brings over 30 years’ experience in business management, advisory, technology, operations, and software development, with expertise in the areas of enterprise content management, knowledge management, collaboration and workflow, technical publishing, user experience, learning technologies, and knowledge worker productivity.

Prior to joining Earley Information Science, Paul served as CEO for Jorsek Software, publishers of the easyDITA component content management suite, and managed the business analytics practice at Northpoint Advisors, a marketing strategy consultancy. Earlier in his career, Paul established and led enterprise content management consultancies for JustSystems (a leading technology provider of XML technologies), Blast Radius (a full-service digital agency specializing in social commerce design, production, and managed services), and Xerox Global Services.
Paul serves organizations in high tech, process manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace, retail, energy, capital equipment, and travel industries. Paul is a sought-after speaker and contributing writer for industry organizations including AIIM, CIDM, DaraTech, DocTrain, Gartner, Gilbane, LavaCon, Linked Data, ebiz, Intelligent Content, KM World, LISA, MESA, STC, and TechLearn, Paul earned an MBA in strategy and finance from the William E. Simon School of Business, and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester.

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The Customer-Centric Digital Experience

Friday, May 5th, 2017

14:10 B2B: Owning Your Product Data

B2C digital retailers learned early on that to win in the digital channel they needed to differentiate on user experience, and on the quality and richness of their product data. B2B industrial suppliers are quickly learning those same lessons – that to compete and win in digital, you not only need to provide products that your customers want, but also high quality product data (so they can discover products) and “ways to shop” (different user experiences to find and select products – e.g. “shop by brand”, “shop by application”, etc.). When you create a digital marketplace, you can’t rely upon product vendors – distributors need to “own” accountability for high-quality product data. Many industrial suppliers are now looking to update their product taxonomies, to review attributes to make sure they support the kind of shop and compare interface your customers need, and to internalize product data production to assure that data fill rates are high and quality is consistently high.

In this presentation, Paul will review trends that Earley is seeing among industrial suppliers and large OEMs, and will discuss what it takes to internalize product data quality – how to rapidly overhaul your taxonomy and product data to attract new customers and win a larger share of wallet with more ways to shop and better data.