Technology is constantly evolving with 42% of users who browse the internet on a mobile device using mobile apps to aid the process. Around 90% of mobile users prefer using apps to visit media instead of going to a website, highlighting the importance of mobile apps. But what benefits can a mobile app bring to your...
The retail news has been dominated by reports of the buyout of House of Fraser by Mike Ashley, the owner of Sports Direct, for £90m and his vision for creating ‘the Harrods of the High Street’. Ashley’s brands are now so diverse it may be hard to see how each will truly complement each other,...
The 2018 world cup is over, and as Russia looks forward to utilising the stadiums and feel good factor to create a lasting legacy for their nation, fashion retailers and clothing manufacturers are also rubbing their hands together having benefited from a somewhat unusual legacy set by England Manager, Gareth Southgate and his “waistcoat.” Southgate has...
As the number of ways to buy has evolved, many retailers are plagued with data disparities caused by an evolution of several IT systems. Increasingly, retailers are finding it impossible to unify data across systems such as e-commerce platforms, customer relationship management, warehouse management, finance, product management, resource planning and EPOS – to name but...
If you google the term ‘Data is the new oil’, you’re presented with almost 600 million results. We wanted to explore why this is such a popular and well quoted term. Firstly, drawing on our own experiences as CIOs having worked for large multinational organisations there were some quick comparisons to make. Whether we choose...
Inconvenient truth: you get out what you put in and data is no exception to this rule. Enterprise, unified data is the ‘elephant in the room’ in many organisations. As more organisations start to see the value of truly understanding their customers and business operations in greater detail, there are still many companies that are...
Access to critical, value-adding data can be the difference between a successful business decision, and an expensive mistake. However, with data spread across multiple systems, used by siloed teams across departments in isolation, data management becomes difficult, ineffective and inefficient. Without the full 360-degree picture of your whole organisation, your business may be at a...
Master Data Management (MDM) has been an IT industry buzzword for the last ten years. Outside of the world of CIOs and IT managers, it has been associated with the worst trends in business management: 3-letter acronyms that don’t mean much to anyone not in the loop. This can make the initial task of generating...
