Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Whole Foods and other progressive retailers like Starbucks and Lululemon Athletica are increasingly shedding their national standards and conventions to achieve a more local brand image. Local store marketing has always played an important role in retail promotion, but in the new indie-inspired model, it becomes the lead strategy.

Retail 8

Retail Merchandising Market Penetration Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

The digital agility of web technologies, however, offer particular powers to companies seeking to provocatively make a point. If more customers are intrigued than exasperated by such innovative intrusiveness, who knows what Google Bombs or IEDs — Internet-Enabled-Diatribes — might emerge to champion future positions?

Tactics 14

Tactics Self-aware Politics Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. Fast-growing consumer products companies such as Warby Parker, Glossier, and Dollar Shave Club are upending the traditional retail model, which depends on a manufacturer selling to a retailer that then sells to the end consumer.

P&L 12

P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In fact, data can assist most business decision-making — from the tactical (Which items should I bundle?) It's rare to find a company using complementary technology across the entire data value chain. It's also likely that such information is hidden from the retail lending division tasked with rating the customer.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Spurred on by digital-native competitors, the retail sector has captured about 30% to 40% of the margin improvements and productivity growth we identified in 2011. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Embracing data and analytics is not a tactic; it’s a transformation. Insight Center.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. To customers, the company feels as nimble and innovative as its digital competition, even though its back-end systems remain problematic. For example, retailers will struggle to put the right products on their shelves until they have accurate data about the dimensions of the packaging itself.

Planning 8

Planning Agility System Retail 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This is where technology can save the day. Today’s mobile autonomous robotic cart (MARC) technology takes automation a step further. As technology continues to advance, automation’s capabilities will only skyrocket. COVID-19 has changed virtually everything, including the way electronics manufacturers operate.

Supply Chain 118

Supply Chain Compliance Fashion Efficiency 118

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

” With changes happening so quickly from so many directions – competition, regulation, technology, talent, customer behavior – it’s easy for one’s story to become generic or outdated. These are useful tactics but aren’t the kind of strategic narrative you are looking for.

How To 8

How To Brand Retail PR 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark.

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Like many retailers, Macy’s has traditionally spent 85% of its marketing budget on driving sales. For its background check solution, Checkr wasn’t getting the results it wanted from traditional sales and marketing tactics as it expanded into new market segments.

Creativity 13

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart had become the odd retailer out but still kept 1,500 stores for its reorganization. by Hank Moore. In 1999, the U.S.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

First, I encountered the ghost of retail past on a trip to the quaintly crumbling brick mill towns of western Massachusetts. Finally, I encountered the ghost of retail future, in pulling together this slideshow for our retail insight center. Merry Christmas. Pass the glogg. Then things started to happen. I have no idea.

Retail 15

Retail Long-term Open-book Price 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Neither digital technology nor the corporation itself is necessarily to blame for the current predicament. Technology may be involved with all this, but pointing to digital things as somehow causative is a mistake. Digital processes, applied to the same old tactics, simply exacerbate the same old problems.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Ziba''s service innovation and retail design work with Umpqua Bank , for example, continues to be relevant and productive years after it was completed, with the bank adding dozens of branches and tens of billions in holdings. Hopefully, you''ve already done some of this work up front.

Govindarajan 8

Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. The retail giant's powerful buyers, or merchants, now have a sustainability goal in their performance targets and reviews. Let's look at some top macro- and company-level stories. Macro Trends.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10