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How to Build an Agile Supply Chain Ready for What's Next in Retail

Susanna Zhu, Vice President, Head of U.S. Supply Chain Operations, The Hershey Company

Addressing Retail's Unfulfilled Promise

Lauren Mead, VP-Marketing, TrimeTrade Systems

Getting Better Insight Into the Competitive Retail Sector With Data Analytics

Alexandra Gray, Head of Research, Mirvac [ASX: MGR]

Amazon's Secret Weapon in the Fight to Improve Product Information

Stephanie Leffler, CEO, OneSpace

Amazon's Secret Weapon in the Fight to Improve Product Information

Amazon has grown their ecommerce empire by building infrastructure to power their operation and then releasing that infrastructure to other companies in the form of services in the cloud.

It is Indispensable for Retailers to Embrace Digital Transformation

Jean Laborde, Deputy CIO, FnacDarty

It is Indispensable for Retailers to Embrace Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is your North Star, and you need to identify it and understand why it is the answer to your problems

How Cloud Technologies Help Retailers Stay Ahead of the Competition

Ian Pattison, Head of Retail Architecture, Google Cloud UK

Cloud can help unite and analyse various datasets to help brands evaluate sourcing decisions quickly and easily, with meaningful real-time inputs.

Harnessing the Power of Big Data: A Crucial Competitive Advantage for Brick-and-Mortar Retail

Alex Bordei, Director of Product and Development, Bigstep

Harnessing the Power of Big Data: A Crucial Competitive Advantage for Brick-and-Mortar Retail

More data speeds up the business decision by analyzing a multitude of key performance indicators and partly solves one of the core issues of offline retailers.

E-Commerce Vs. Retail: It's More than Just Numbers

Amit Mangwani, Director of Retail Marketing, Intel Corporation

E-Commerce Vs. Retail: It's More than Just Numbers

The increase in online sales generated by traditional companies is a key contributor to the growth of sales in e-commerce.

Building Technology Powered Lifestyle Brands: Changing Role of a CIO in Retail

Anishiya Taneja, CIO, Serena & Lily

Building Technology Powered Lifestyle Brands: Changing Role of a CIO in Retail

Change is occurring within industries and making odd bedfellows through the Internet of Things (IoT).

The Importance of Supply Chain Visibility

David Adams, Director, Business Intelligence and Project Management, Unyson

The Importance of Supply Chain Visibility

When it comes to business lack of information leads to decisions based on guesswork or rules of thumb. This, in turn, can cost your company money and customer goodwill.

Driving Innovation and Leveraging Stores as a Competitive Advantage

Edward Park, SVP, Head of Retail, Digital, Allocations, Wholesale Operations (North America), GUESS? Inc.

Driving Innovation and Leveraging Stores as a Competitive Advantage

The challenge facing retail today is transforming stores to connect that invaluable hub of experience.

Mobisoft: Streamlining B2B E-Commerce at Fingertips

Matan Holander, VP Business Development

Mobisoft: Streamlining B2B E-Commerce at Fingertips

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce has evolved at multiple levels. Evidently, understanding the unique purchasing preferences of the modern day buyers have become increasingly critical to the long-term growth of B2B merchants.

Growing Pains for Amazon

James Keller, Executive Partner, Bulger Partners

Growing Pains for Amazon

It is shaping up to be another great year for Amazon and one that represents some big milestones for the company.

Free Wi-Fi Versus Paid: Which is Better for Your Business?

Patricia R. Hume, Chief Commercial Officer, iPass

We live in a mobile world, where a staggering 4.8 billion people around the world are mobile users. Among those billions, more than one billion are mobile professionals.

Real Talk from Shoptalk: Brick and Mortar Remains a Key Component of Effective Omnichannel

Kyu Cho, VP, Nisum

Real Talk from Shoptalk: Brick and Mortar Remains a Key Component of Effective Omnichannel

According to recent numbers from the U.S. Department of Commerce, e-commerce sales accounted for 10.6 percent of total retail sales by the end of 2015.

Be Ready or be Gone - Insights for the Fast approaching Future of Retail

Brett Beveridge, Founder & President, The Retail Outsource Companies

Be Ready or be Gone - Insights for the Fast approaching Future of Retail

To say the landscape of retail is changing, is an almost absurd understatement.

Time to Reach for the Clouds

Mike Ruchensky, VP and CIO, Swift Transportation [NYSE-SWFT]

Time to Reach for the Clouds

Today’s fleet managers—and their drivers—face heightened responsibilities in an increasingly competitive transportation industry.

Architect Your Business to Engage, Interact and Serve 'Things' as a New Customer Segment

Don Scheibenreif, VP-Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

Architect Your Business to Engage, Interact and Serve 'Things' as a New Customer Segment

Internet-connected things will become your customers in the future. We believe embracing this future early will be a prime source of competitive advantage in the world of digital business.

Why Gamification for Retail is a Powerful Tool for Connecting with Millennials

Anand Shaw, Cofounder, Inventrik Pte Ltd

Why Gamification for Retail is a Powerful Tool for Connecting with Millennials

In the age of smart-phones, social media and connected devices; keeping millennials engaged has become more difficult than ever before, especially for retailers.