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  • Enterprise Software

    Enterprise Software Product Management – A Buyer’s Perspective

    As a Product Manager of Enterprise Software Products, you have a number of important stakeholders to manage. Most of the time, what is going to make any one of them happy, will cause another of them grief. Your stakeholders are the end-users, your engineering teams, your sales organization, your marketing organization, your support organization, your…

  • Milky Way

    The Importance of Data Strategy

    Organizations have been trying to harness data for the best part of thirty years - since the widespread use of computers.  Companies like Google and Amazon owe their market dominance to their smart use of data. Today affordable storage and processing power allows any organization to put its data to good use. We now have…
  • Debatable Design

    Thinking About Design

    “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” – Don Norman All year I’ve been cursing our induction stovetop for its poor usability, but the stress of the Holidays turned a festive meal into a Christmas…

  • Data Products

    Cooking up Data Products, a 10-Step Recipe

    Data products have the power to transform companies and and even industries. Google, LinkedIN, and Uber are models of data commercialization. Digital Transformation initiatives are spawning new streams of data that can be harnessed by the organization to create new internal efficiencies or new products and services for customers. This is not magic, there is…

  • The Colossus Computer

    An Online Data Science Resource

    At First Retail we are proud of our foresight at the intersection of business and technology. From the projects we win, to the consultants we hire and our ongoing investments in technology research, we have cultivated a spirit of innovation and disruption in all that we do.   As a strategic consultancy, we have always…
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