Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. A couple of things worth noting: All of the sites in the leaderboard sites are pretty speedy, so this is NOT a name-and-shame exercise. Those are already big wins.

Performance 69

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 69

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Create a baseline to measure against Repeat this exercise periodically – perhaps monthly, or semi-annually, or after a deploy where you've made a number of performance improvements – and compare the correlation charts over time.

Performance 121

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 121

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

The client in question purchased and warehoused perishable items, hundreds of thousands of different SKUs that they distributed to retailers ranging from tiny independents to large global chains. Cheap distribution keeps product prices down, which makes their retail clients more competitive.

Retail 45

Retail Energy Logistics Efficiency 45

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2021

And, per the aforementioned statistics, labor is exercising that power. But some of you may recall that in the late 1990s, labor briefly had a moment. For a brief period, "Sales Associate" positions came with medical and retirement benefits. Well, labor is back.

Social Media 52

Social Media Retail Media Software Engineering 52

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

These can be useful exercises, certainly to the business leaders who’ve got to find their customers or compete against rivals with slimmed down cost structures. Is brick-and-mortar retail dead? One way its retail bank makes money by converting deposits into loans. Are cities dead? Is cash dead? These are less useful.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail C++ Transportation 52

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . The False Developer Quality Equivalency .

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

Create a baseline to measure against Repeat this exercise periodically – perhaps monthly, or semi-annually, or after a deploy where you've made a number of performance improvements – and compare the correlation charts over time.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52