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Why Amazon’s Grocery Store May Not Be the Future of Retail

Harvard Business

But retailers shouldn’t rush to rip out their registers just yet. Retail is littered with promising technologies introduced with great fanfare that didn’t become mainstream because they didn’t sufficiently benefit either the retailer or the customer. And will consumers like it? Radio-Frequency Identification.

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Blockchain for Supply Chain – Insights from Berlin

Tom Spencer

I head partnerships for ScanTrust , it’s a digital supply chain startup. We have invented the world’s first digitally secure QR code that allows you to take any type of product and place an almost impossible to copy and unique ScanTrust code that helps you track the product.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. What justified the price tags was the value of an engaged user base, locked into an ecosystem that has strong network effects.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

Given all the attention that “digital” is getting at the moment, you would be forgiven for thinking that it is somehow new. In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. Consequently, it is useful to think about investments in digital as essentially investments in change.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. There’s no denying that it is a retailer, but it also has a digital platform rather than physical stores, and nearly 50% of the units sold through its website are sold by third-party sellers.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business

which can empower the digital enterprise — or intimidate them. With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. Within the next three years there will be over 20 billion connected devices (e.g.

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Should You Compete with Amazon or Sell on Amazon?

Harvard Business

I currently lead E-Commerce and Digital Marketing at Journelle.com, a startup luxury lingerie retailer. The shift from brand loyalty to platform loyalty has forced specialized online retail companies like my own to ask, How can I keep my customers loyal? If I try to do both, how do I pull that off?

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