Edge Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let me start by clarifying that the transformation I’m focused on isn’t the transformation involved in moving from one business to another (let’s say, moving from being a retailer to becoming a clothing manufacturer). Strategy: Shift from static to dynamic. Technology: Shift from tasks to learning.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. In-memory computing technology can aggregate this data and visually present the results to help immediately spot outbreaks and identify significant problem areas.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. In-memory computing technology can aggregate this data and visually present the results to help immediately spot outbreaks and identify significant problem areas.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. Many large companies have tens of thousands of employees and need to perform fast, efficient contact tracing. In-memory computing technology can aggregate this data and visually present the results to help immediately spot outbreaks and identify significant problem areas.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Banking customers now expect digital experiences on par with those delivered by leading e-commerce and technology companies, and emerging financial technology (fintech) companies are racing to provide these kinds of experiences. So are established competitors, which are investing in platform plays to boost market share.

FinTech 193

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 193

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. They need to find allies who possess enough digital know-how to ensure the company can take advantage of the opportunities that stem from new technologies. Wanted: Employees with a mixed skill set.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

There was a market, but no obvious winning strategy. Orders duplicated across multiple intermediaries meant that even the smartest algorithms and the fastest technology would provide only a fleeting edge as competitors would quickly catch up. The only strategy was to hope that your competitors ran out of cash before you did.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, 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 bigger the tech economy, the better off everybody is.

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

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

They are all likely to exist in some kind of silo that’s difficult to access from the outside the group that created the silo–and the reason for that difficulty may be political as well as technological. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. Most real-world business lie somewhere between those extremes.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

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

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. We imagine that companies in the software industry are more likely to be early (or mid-stage) adopters of technologies like cloud computing. 10,000 or more employees.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141