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Global Markets – When Supply and Demand Move Offshore

The last twenty years has seen ever more production moving offshore. The increase in shipping traffic bringing manufactured goods from developing to developed nations has grown, even through the recent recession there was only a slight dip with current predictions signaling recovery. However retailers looking for growth outside of stagnating domestic markets are building a…

Multi-channel – Stores, Online, Mobile and More

In 1999 I worked on a strategy to monetize interactive TV via a retailing proposition – this was expanded this to demonstrate a multi-channel concept with three pillars: Selection; Order; Fulfillment. Twelve years on this is reality with smart phones, tablets, streamed content and the full complement of retail fulfillment infrastructure. What is now lacking…

Business to Individual, the maturing of VRM

Sometime during the 70’s and 80’s the balance of power between retailers and suppliers shifted – this was best described in the 1999 book ‘StoreWars – The Battle for Mindspace and Shelfspace‘ – where both sides competed for the attention of the consumer and therefore power in the relationship that determine profit margins. Despite huge…

Five for Five – 5 Retail Trends 2011-2016

Five Drivers of Change Observing recent strategies in retail and developments in technology and trade leads me to believe that the following issues are in play – together these will form the vortex of those changes: Balance of power between retailers and consumers The mix of retailing channels – stores, online, mobile and social Globalization…

2011 Semantic Technology conference

We’re excited to be participating in the 2011 Semantic Technology conference in San Francisco! You can catch Anne Hunt and Simon Hadley discussing Real-Time Semantic ETL today, June 7 at 2:40PM PDT, and Anne Hunt, Simon Handley, and To Kim presenting Innovation-in-a-Box during the poster session on Wednesday, June 8 from 10:45AM to 3:45PM PDT.…