Big Data is Ripe for Disruption
Big Data is seen as an asset, a weapon that can be wielded for disruptive advantage, and yet one of the biggest challenges to unlocking its potential is the lack of available tools, and even more...
View ArticleRetail is Detail in Big Data
When It Comes to Big Data, Retail is Detail In our interview “Engineering Profit from Patterns” with Guy Yehiav, CEO of Profitect, we discussed the guiding principles by which Profitect engineered...
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Impressions from the Gartner BI Summit
Gartner’s BI summit is a unique experience that combines engaging talks from thought leaders, with an opportunity to network with some of the best BI minds in the industry. I came away with a few...
View ArticleWhat Is The Key To Success For Retail?
Charles Baldwin, of Cabela’s, changed the game at this year’s RILA Conference. The key to the transformation is to orchestrate collaboration between all the groups within the company, which is more...
View ArticleThe Path to Better Marketing Through Analytics
As we know, marketing initiatives tend to be abstract, in both concept and payoff. However, a good marketing strategy can improve customer satisfaction, increase basket size, and even decrease the...
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Disrupting Retail with Omnichannel
If you are in the retail business than the term “Omnichannel” is not alien to you. Omnichannel evolved as a concept in a retailer’s book in 2010, and today, focuses on a multichannel sales approach...
View ArticleTop 6 Reasons Why Retailers are Replacing Exception Based Reporting
The 2015 retail conference season has come to a close. Throughout the season, I had the opportunity to speak with and, more importantly, listen to retailers from all areas of the retail operation. In...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Retail Business Intelligence
Retailers have been collecting data on their customers, products, and transactions since the 1970’s when barcodes became mainstream. In the 80’s RFID was commercialized, and in the 90’s CCTV became...
View ArticleA step in the right direction, but still a country mile from the destination
An article in this month’s Stores Magazine by Peter Johnson, highlights the progress of Adidas’ profit protection strategy. While there are so many positive steps forward noted within the article,...
View ArticleTen Laws For Retail Today
After a number of years writing about this next generation of retail I have created TEN laws which I believe must be followed if you are to succeed as a retailer. These laws infer technology is...
View ArticleMissed out on RILA This Year? Recap with Thomas Mormino, Stop & Shop
This year’s RILA Retail Asset Protection Conference in Dallas was a monumental event for the Profitect team. We didn’t just win the Innovation Award from RILA, but we won the ‘Retailers’ Choice’...
View ArticleThe Next Phase of Omnichannel: Customer-Centricity
It’s not uncommon for today’s connected consumer to browse a website and in a matter of seconds, view and compare the products they want, having them delivered right to their front doorstep. Something...
View Article3 Things I Overheard at NRF PROTECT 2016
This year, NRF hosted their annual PROTECT conference in Philadelphia, where I was joined by customers, retail executives and loss prevention professionals to discuss the state of the industry and what...
View ArticleIoT and Prescriptive Analytics: Will They or Won’t They?
The Internet of Things, it’s so hot right now. Let’s face it, despite some security concerns, the sheer data collection capability is too attractive for most enterprises to pass up. In fact, according...
View ArticleMaking The Most of Your People Data
It might be a little cynical, but it isn’t too farfetched to claim that humans are by nature selfish creatures. It is why the folks over in Marketing Land are abandoning cookie cutter advertising in...
View ArticleI’m So Sorry For Your Loss (Prevention Strategy)
“Without any risk, there is no reward.” -Unknown While business people must be prepared to assume risk when undertaking a new endeavor, some ventures are inherently more risky than others. Take retail...
View ArticleI Loved This Company So Much I Joined The Team!
November 1st is my first day on the job, but truthfully I have been working for this company for many years starting when I was globally responsible for retail partnerships at Microsoft a number of...
View Article4 Things We Learned From Our 2016 User Group Conference
We recently joined customers, industry experts, analysts, advisors and colleagues in sunny Fort Lauderdale for our annual User Group Conference (UGC), Spark a Revolution. While every year we look...
View ArticleFour Questions with Yonatan Olsha: Profitect’s Head of EMEA
We recently announced the official appointment of Yonatan Olsha, Profitect’s new leader of our EMEA business. I sat down with Yonatan to get to know him better, and find out what he is most excited...
View ArticleIt’s All About the Data
Whether you like it or not, analytics is now a part of everyday life. This is especially true in retail, and if it isn’t the case in your company, it should be. However, organizations need to be...
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