The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Firms in industries ranging from financial services to retail pharmacy to fast food aspire to be "platform companies." lean and agile process). This separates the sclerotic laggards from the adaptive innovators. A system based on completion of simple tasks deprives a team of any complexity to sink their teeth into.

Innovation 40

Innovation Retail Strategy Technology 40

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). Performance improvement: Shift from process to practice. To accelerate learning, companies will need to unbundle.

Innovation 104

Innovation Scalability Efficiency Mobile 104

Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology plays a pivotal role in numerous industries, revolutionizing decision-making processes and providing valuable insights into spatial data.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Development Retail 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

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 165

Retail Infrastructure Innovation Strategy 165

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Topology metrics are related to specific entities in your Smartscape topology (for example, the number of successful and failed batch jobs processed by a host). Non-topology metrics are not related to any Smartscape entity (for example, a retailer’s revenue numbers per store). Choose your monitoring strategy (i.e.,

Metrics 244

Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 244

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Visionaries are hoping to leverage blockchains to provide a secure, universal data sharing infrastructure that can help solve decades-long problems endemic to the health care system. Their work could inspire innovations in other spaces with similar characteristics. Real estate.

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Executives and decision makers can now better see the promise blockchain holds to improve business processes and facilitate creating innovative products, and, in some cases, entirely new markets. To achieve this, businesses have built up complex processes of checks and balances. Enterprise momentum builds for blockchain.

Blockchain 68

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

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. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

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 188

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 188

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Digitizing internal processes can improve information flow and enhance collaboration among employees. However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes. It often involves replacing legacy systems and workflows that have been in place for years or even decades.

Strategy 172

Strategy Retail DevOps Education 172

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

AI evolves basically around 2 stages of the learning process: 1. Machine learning: a feature of AI that provides computer systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from previous experience without being explicitly programmed. There are many business processes that can be optimized using artificial intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

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 189

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 189

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. We needed to build systems that embrace failure as a natural occurrence even if we did not know what the failure might be.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon. They are slightly different, but in the end, the process is pretty similar.

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Orchestrate the processing flow across an end-to-end infrastructure. Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The problem that AI introduces is the scale at which automated systems can cause harm. That’s certainly true for technical employees who will be developing applications that use AI systems through an API. One aspect of this change will be verifying that the output of an AI system is correct.

Education 72

Education Healthcare Media Systems 72

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

A person in the primary labor force is a knowledge worker: they are expected to be highly skilled, abstract thinkers who are concerned with systemic issues. However, the transient nature of the contract means that all members of the consultant organization are part of the retailer's secondary labor market.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

One year after a Tock release Intel would take that same microarchitecture (with some minor improvements), and use a shrink of the manufacturing process to create a Tick release. The Tick-Tock release cycle basically fell apart by about 2015 , as Intel was unable to move from a 14nm manufacturing process to a 10nm manufacturing process.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The business processes that need to be defined, modeled and automated to fulfill that market opportunity will not be established at the front end of a project. These are not problem domains that lend themselves to a divide-and-conquer approach, they are domains that require a discover-collaborate-innovate approach.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

There are many more application areas where we use ML extensively: search, autonomous drones, robotics in fulfillment centers, text processing and speech recognition (such as in Alexa) etc. And this process must be repeated for every object, face, voice, and language feature in an application.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165