The China Trade
The status of trade and financial relationships between the U.S. and China are sure to get some people in the U.S. riled up about domestic jobs, taxes, debt, and general economic well-being. That kind...
View ArticleGlobal Retailing Conference: ‘Everything Is Retail’
The Global Retailing Conference, hosted by the University of Arizona Terry J. Lundgren Center For Retailing, is a concentrated dive into the state of retailing from the perspective of the executive...
View ArticleMore on Next-Gen Payments: Digital Vouchers
RSR partner Nikki Baird’s column this week (US Retail, EMV, NFC, and Mobile: Opportunity or Disaster?) talks about U.S. retailers’ apparent lethargy when it comes to next-gen payments. It’s a topic...
View ArticleNRHA 2013 Young Retailer Awards: ‘It’s A Nobile Business’
One of the things that I have found satisfying about spending all these years in-and-around retail is that at its essence it’s an “honest business”. People (usually) don’t buy things that they don’t...
View ArticleIBM’s Smarter Commerce Gets a Big Brain
The 3rd U.S. IBM Smarter Commerce conference was held last week in Nashville, TN at the Opryland Hotel & Conference Center. Usually, RSR’s intrepid conference-goers don’t do a Rick Steve-style...
View ArticleCEOs in the Participation Age: Watch What You Say
The very beginnings of my career as an “IT guy” began at the University of California, Berkeley. In those days (mid-1970’s), the computing department used the nascent Internet Protocol (IP) to get...
View ArticleM&A Season: Two Smart Moves
Mergers & Acquisitions are often an outcome of one of two things: first, M&A can be a sign of a maturing market that has too many solutions fighting over a stagnating revenue opportunity; and...
View ArticleSAP and ‘Design Thinking’
There was a time when business operational processes weren’t enabled by as much as limited by what technology could and couldn’t do. That certainly was true in the days of “batch vs. online” processing...
View ArticleOnce More with Gusto: Why IT Isn’t More Effective
Going through my Inbox in preparation for getting back in the saddle after a long and hot holiday weekend, I was greeted by the usual “just-push-the-delete-key” e-mails with subjects like “25...
View ArticlePaula’s test
Steve Jobs of Apple Computer fame once said, “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get...
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