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The Importance of Digital IoT Agility for Retail Supply Chain Organizations
The Importance of Digital IoT Agility for Retail Supply Chain Organizations
By Brandon Rael
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Cybersecurity resilience is critical to keep retailers safe
Cybersecurity resilience is critical to keep retailers safe
By Brandon Rael
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Retail is Undergoing a Transformation Powered by GenAI Capabilities
Retail is Undergoing a Transformation Powered by GenAI Capabilities
By Brandon Rael
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You're navigating the digital strategy landscape. How do you blend innovation and stability for success?
Throughout my career, I have made every effort to continuously improve, learn new skills, and better understand the evolving technological landscape. We can all benefit from being open to feedback and constructive criticism and hearing other perspectives to improve our communication and engagement style. My biggest failures have also provided the most learning opportunities, to improve, adjust and learn new techniques and strategies.
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You're navigating the digital strategy landscape. How do you blend innovation and stability for success?
Organizations must take a product-centric, customer-centric approach to unlock value, reduce costs, and increase profitability. However, one of the more underestimated and critical components is to develop a sense of organizational resilience to have what it takes to ride out the inevitable disruptions. Resilience comes in many forms. This begins with the organizational culture, then the processes, all supported by agile, adaptive, and evolving technologies to drive growth.
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You're navigating the digital strategy landscape. How do you blend innovation and stability for success?
The pace of change is relentless, especially with the digitalization of how we work, learn, shop, and engage as a society. By taking a value-centric, strategic approach, companies must focus all their initiatives on providing value for their end customers. There is a delicate balance between running the daily operations at companies and prioritizing longer-term digital transformation imperatives. The people element is one of the more critical ones, as the organization has to ensure that their north star objectives are aligned and understood by the people that need to execute against them.
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You're navigating the digital strategy landscape. How do you blend innovation and stability for success?
Business transformations led by an innovation strategy must be centered around the business outcomes. We are seeing organizations take on an enterprise-wide digitalization strategy. However, the value, cost savings, and ROI must be clearly articulated before introducing innovations and technology architecture to your organization. It all begins with defining the target audience that are the recipients of the value, and how it will transform their roles for long term growth and transformation.
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Some mergers and acquisitions are not what they seem at the surface. On the latest Retail Cloud Alliance podcast, I had the opportunity to discuss…
Some mergers and acquisitions are not what they seem at the surface. On the latest Retail Cloud Alliance podcast, I had the opportunity to discuss…
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ReThink Retail Top Retail Influencer - 2022
Rethink Retail
The RETHINK Retail Top 100 Retail Influencers is an annual list featuring the world’s most instrumental influencers in retail.
This list is comprised of retail experts, consultants, analysts, academics, journalists, and thought leaders who are making an impact in retail in 2022. -
ReThink Retail Top Retail Influencer - 2021
ReThink Retail
The RETHINK Retail Top 100 Retail Influencers is an annual list featuring the world’s most instrumental influencers in retail.
This list is comprised of retail experts, consultants, analysts, academics, journalists, and thought leaders who are making an impact in retail in 2021.
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