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Retailers Can’t Rely on Holiday-Season Gimmicks Like They Used To

Harvard Business Review

Retailers fulfill those expectations by designing and operating a truly multi-channel shopping experience—that is, one that provides multiple options for the multiple stages of shopping (research, transaction, fulfillment, and service) and executes seamlessly across them.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

She breaks down the operational and human resource decisions that make this possible in her HBR article and book The Good Jobs Strategy. That’s why companies like UPS, Lowes, REI, and Starbucks are in high demand — they all offer some form of health insurance for part-time, hourly employees.

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7 Steps to Deliver Better Customer Experiences

Harvard Business Review

We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. They were happy to maintain the age-old silo between marketing and operations. I was stunned.

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