Podcast
Digital Packaging Disruption
Hosted by Dustin Steerman · EN
The digital packaging space is leading major changes, but many companies and professionals aren't ready for the shifts currently happening. Dustin Steerman talks with the brightest in the space and offers his own take on the digital print, packaging and manufacturing industry, and how people can adapt to dominate in this sleeping giant of a category.
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Managing Growth and Forecasting in Digital Packaging w/ Andrew Boyd (Blue Label Packaging) - Episode 23
Oct 26, 202200:45:19Tap to summarizeDustin talks with Andrew Boyd about his philosophy behind adding fixed assets and managing expansion as a decently-sized label and packaging company that experienced huge demand spikes during the pandemic. He also talks about utilizing automation in the backend process and how it is necessary to offset scale and keep cost controls.
Transcribe →How AI is Putting Packaging at a Crossroads w/ Tyler Thompson (Tilia Labs) - Episode 22
Oct 18, 202201:01:59Tap to summarizeDustin chats with Tyler Thompson, Global Solutions Manager at Tilia Labs, about AI’s current place in the digital packaging landscape. They discuss why packaging risks losing the next generation of talent, why there’s too much human error in digital workflows right now, and whether AI is too soon for the packaging industry.
Transcribe →From Analog to Digital Powerhouse w/ Justin Stacey (Fantastapack) - Episode 21
Oct 4, 202200:57:49Tap to summarizeDustin talks with Justin Stacey, VP of eCommece Solutions at Fantastapack, about the journey of incubating the future of their analog company, Box Maker, through their eCommerce effort at Fantastapack. Justin gives tons of great insight into scaling with technology, inflection points that drove the decision to go digital, what the journey looks like, and the big traps to avoid.
Transcribe →Recapping Label Expo: Digital’s Takeover is Coming - DPD Live Episode 20
Sep 27, 202200:59:06Tap to summarizeDustin, Sean, and the DPD Live audience discuss Label Expo’s first show in 4 years and how the landscape of packaging has changed since. They talk about technological advancements, digital transformation, and the strong message being sent by the print hardware space at the show.
Transcribe →From Disrupting Commercial to Disrupting Packaging w/ Matthew Greer (DMS Color) - Episode 19
Sep 20, 202200:46:14Tap to summarizeDustin chats with Goldleaf / DMS Color CEO Matthew Greer about his company’s journey to digital packaging, their foray into packaging for the cannabis industry, and how they measure and showcase their sustainability impact for both them and their individual customers.
Transcribe →Is Packaging Ready for the Digital Native Era? - DPD Live Episode 18
Sep 13, 202201:06:14Tap to summarizeDustin, Sean, and the DPD Live audience discuss the huge shift of the workforce moving from being run by Native Analogs to increasingly being run by Native Digitals. The touch of some fo the CPG brands that have been Native Digital, how they think and act and what that will mean in other packaging good industries, and the role of the salesperson as Native Digitals take an even larger role in the packaging economy.
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The Hunter <> Farmer Sales Org Paradox - Episode 17
Sep 6, 202200:26:13Tap to summarizeDustin talks about how packaging companies are setting their sales departments up for failure by asking them to bring in new business and be account managers. He then discusses different approaches to making these functions work and complement one another and how to approach this today if your sales team is feeling burnout from having to be both a Hunter and a Farmer.
Transcribe →The Threats Packaging Isn’t Seeing in the Market - DPD Live Episode 16
Aug 30, 202200:49:24Tap to summarizeThe DPD Live crew has a lively discussion with the audience about the factors that are and will drive digital adoption. They talk about digital’s ability to meet sustainability, what is vs. what should be driving digital adoption, the biggest threats out there for packaging and why packaging execs are missing it, and what the history of the barcode suggests about digital’s ramp into the broader packaging marketplace.
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The Evolution of Sales with Digital w/ George Perreira (Whitebird) - Episode 15
Aug 25, 202200:48:47Tap to summarizeDustin talks with George Perreira, VP of Business Development at Whitebird, and their transformation to digital packaging. George discusses the way buyers changed, how that impacted their thinking, why he thinks others should start with the front-end experience before the press, how design proofs have changed with digital, and how the sales function is going to forever be different in a digital-first packaging world.
Transcribe →Is Commercial Print Coming for Converters? - DPD Live Episode 14
Aug 22, 202200:46:30Tap to summarizeDustin and Sean kick DPD Live back off by discussing the bottom-up market of packaging. They talk with the audience about how packaging is still operating a decade behind the times, how the subscription economy and onshoring are changing packaging, why converters aren’t adopting digital as fast as they should, and why commercial printers are a real threat to converters still standing on the digital sidelines.
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