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Product Management: Getting to ‘No’
After 12 years spent as a Product Manager working for Enterprise Software, Startups, blue-chip retailers and financial services companies and advising many more, I have been able to boil it all down to one key skill – the ability to say ‘No’. This post explains why ‘No’ is the one word that product managers need…
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The Universal "Want" Button
Yesterday’s photo of Mark Zuckerberg at Walmart Stores in Bentonville prompts speculation around a potential partnership between the two giants. However, we at First Retail are encouraging speculation of a different sort – that Walmart might be the vendor that will respond when a consumer hits a Facebook ‘Want’ button Some Speculation If Facebook does…
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Disrupting Retail 2013
In March 2013, we gathered a few folks who might be open to thoughtful exploration of ecommerce, social media and big data and we sat in a room room for a few hours to discuss and debate the implications for the retail industry. Video 1: What is Disrupting Retail As a consumer, the hum…
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The Web is the Market
Retailers become Marketplaces Historically retailers performed three functions: 1) curation of products from an array of suppliers, 2) moving physical product from supplier to consumer and 3) breaking bulk. This required a retailer to maintain substantial infrastructure and stock investment. Today almost all barriers to entry have been removed by online suppliers directories, drop-ship vendors,…
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Future Trends Forum: The Six C’s of Social Technologies
The Six C’s of Social Technologies By Andreas S. Weigend, Gam Dias, and Anthony Chow (Social Data Lab and First Retail, Inc.) In this foreword to the proceedings, we revisit and consolidate the most exciting ideas that emerged during the three days. We frame our observations by casting our minds back 8 years ago…
