Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

For retailers, the countdown to the holidays has begun, even if it’s still six months away. Black Friday preparation is the culmination of retailers’ efforts to attract and sustain customer relationships during the holiday season and beyond. It’s no longer a one-day event. Increasingly, consumers want an omnichannel experience.

Retail 167

Retail Infrastructure Innovation Strategy 167

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. Peak loads can overload and crash retailer websites and derail customer interactions. Customer experience has become paramount for retailers, as visitors demand instant responses — especially during times of high volume.

Traffic 191

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 191

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments ().

AWS 106

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. But to thrive, innovations need a certain tension. How companies can prepare themselves to attract the best talents for shaping their digital business. That can be inconvenient.

Social Media 85

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 85

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Expanding customer value while reducing costs Further, the retail financial services landscape is increasingly competitive. Winning the loyalty of these increasingly fickle customers requires the right investments—in personalization, customer service, developing innovative products, and bringing them to market faster.

FinTech 192

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 192

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

There was a market, but no obvious winning strategy. An intermediary couldn't crush the competition with customer love, innovation, tech firepower, or scale. The only strategy was to hope that your competitors ran out of cash before you did. Infrequent site visits meant that user experience wasn't going to provide an edge.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. We describe the problems one by one in separate sections.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The argument for this invisible efficiency is that economic models have simply failed to change in ways that reflect this phenomenon.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. Michael Porter argued in Competitive Strategy that vertical integration enabled cost leadership, which was more likely to win market share than a strategy of differentiation.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Technology Technology 40