Ramy Nassar, Director, Mattel Retail WONDER Innovation Lab
Terre Wellington, Senior Vice President of Store Operations, Lamp Plus
Rod Sides, Vice Chairman, US Retail, Wholesale and Distribution leader, Deloitte LLP
Global market forces combined with an increasing proliferation of retail channels, along with commoditization of products and pricing, have resulted in elevated expectations on the part of
Michelle Peluso, CMO, IBM Corporation And Laurence Haziot, Global Managing Director, Consumer Industries, IBM Corporation [NYSE:IBM]
Retailers must evolve from emphasizing transactions to focusing on building intimate, unique customer relationships.
Steve Methvin, VP of Ecommerce and Retail Technology, Bozzuto’s
Technology influences the balance between store (paid) and customer (free) labor in the transaction processes.
Natalie Ashes, Head of Ecommerce, GraysOnline
Whilst this is a difficult time, we will continue to do what we have always done back in 1922: help vendors clear stock and help customers get bargains albeit it’s a different world now.
David Beckerman, SVP & CIO, The Pasha Group
At a recent executive summit, I presented a historical perspective of IT spend layered across our enterprise business capabilities.
Michael Mothner, CEO, Wpromote
A holistic 360 degree view of the customer requires insight into the marketing data.
Amit Mangwani, Director of Retail Marketing, Intel Corporation
The increase in online sales generated by traditional companies is a key contributor to the growth of sales in e-commerce.
Vishaal Melwani, CEO, Combatant Gentlemen
While data and analytics are two of the biggest factors that contribute to the success of retail, they’re also very easy to misinterpret.
Matan Holander, VP Business Development
Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce has evolved at multiple levels. Evidently, understanding the unique purchasing preferences of the modern day buyers have become increasingly critical to the long-term growth of B2B merchants.
Marissa Tarleton, CMO, RetailMeNot, Inc
Consumers love to shop. However, the means and methods in which they find what they want continue to evolve.
Anna Cole, Director of E-Commerce Operations, User Experience and Merchandising, Carhartt
It was hard to believe that a machine could out-think a genius like Kasparov.
Mark Horbal, CIO, SVP-IT, EVP Corporate Vision and Innovation, SpringBIG
In the simplest terms, the fundamental objective of any retail enterprise is to sell as many products as possible.
Douglas Duncan, CIO, Columbia Insurance Group
If there is one thing that has been a core function of IT shops large and small over the years, it is the delivery of service.
Peter Charness, SVP America's and Global CMO, TXT e-solutions [MI-TXT]
Great Assortments have to please at least 2 distinct groups. In first place, of course, are the customers who want exactly what they want, when and where they want it.
Armin Roeseler, CIO, Swanson Health Products
Requirements regarding site performance, reliability, scalability, and flexibility, etc., provide new challenges for IT organizations.
Charlie Cole, Chief Digital Officer, VP, TUMI
It’s easy to over complicate. Ultimately retail is divided by two lowest common denominators of data–at the product level and at the customer level.