The Folio Society turns over new leaf with NetSuite | Computer Weekly
Summary
In 1947, in the midst of post-war austerity, The Folio Society was launched by Charles Ede to bring aesthetic pleasure to book lovers. “People want to have that special book, or special versions of their favourite books, done beautifully in a way that we can do.” Mainstone, who also worked for fourteen years in a range of roles from sales and marketing to IT at Direct Wines, was brought in originally as a consultant to The Folio Society four years ago, joining formally in 2021. His career has included stints in India for Direct Wines and as an IT director at Unipart, managing outsourced IT delivery and software teams. They brought in to source a new system that would integrate and reduce complexities, improve efficiencies, and understand what was going on the business, in terms of the analytics, the KPIs and so on. And we did a lot of workshops to make sure that the business saw how easy it would be to implement if they kept to the way NetSuite operates.” And so The Folio Society ended up with less than 5% of bespoke configuration, he says.