Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. Retailers, grocery stores, and restaurants launched curbside pick-up. Agile is both a mindset and a process for improved performance and sustained change.

Leadership 62

Leadership Agile Operations Survey 62

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Nimble digital competitors are showing growth that the largest consumer goods and retail companies are not, for multiple reasons. While disruptive technologies negated many of the advantages historically enjoyed by only large companies with scale, these same technologies have changed the way consumer goods and retail companies create value.

Accenture 28

Accenture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

Agile 53

Agile Energy Productivity Talent 53

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. In one example, the company pursued a “strategy refresh” project for the firm’s retail business, and the CEO ensured the CMO was deeply involved. Now, almost every project requires defined financial deliverables.

Advertising 28

Advertising Agile Marketing Meeting 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

A retailer’s point of sale (POS) system falls into that category. Support investments are those that improve business efficiency and management effectiveness but, in themselves, do not sustain the business or provide any competitive advantage. They are essentially R&D investments in unproven ways to use digital technologies.

Tools 28

Tools Operations System Software 28

1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Retailers will face customers supercharged by digital centricity who are fighting product shortages, higher prices, busy schedules, and holiday craziness. To prepare for another round of deals, delays, and determination here are 5 key strategies retail customer service can employ to win 2021’s Black Friday.

Retail 26

Retail Strategy Strategy Strategy& 26

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the prospect of a frictionless existence, making us more efficient, helping us prevent mistakes, spotting the onset of potential problems before they become problems, and enabling us to spend more time on the things that really matter to us. Microprocessor (CPU) with human brain. AI at Ocado.

Retail 5

Retail Engineering Education Software 5

Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You know, those same disruptive forces redefining all sectors from manufacturing and retail to healthcare and tech. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience.

Data 52

Data Agile Tools Talent 52