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Our Industry Roundtables are designed to immerse IT executives in the key issues, trends, and technologies in their industries so they can drive stakeholder value.
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Department Stores IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
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Department Stores Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Department Stores Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
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Department Stores Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem of factors that impact the Department Stores industry.
- Explore how your IT team is set to deal with those factors from a PESTLE and SWOT perspectives.
- Leverage expert insights and takeaways and update your IT strategy accordingly.
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Department Stores Augmented Reality Report
- Customers expect new technologies and believe the experience is as important as the product itself, preferring stores with AR experiences.
- While new tech brings plenty of challenges to IT departments, it also brings a wealth of opportunities with new levels of leadership required to champion the changes.
- Learn about how the augmented reality trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Department Stores Artificial Intelligence Report
- Many brands benefit from integrating AI into operations. Uses include search, recommendation engines, virtual trial rooms, better customer service, customer data analysis, targeted marketing campaigns, and bots.
- Learn about how the artificial intelligence trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Department Stores Data-Driven Omnichannel Experience Report
- While most shoppers use multiple channels to buy, data tells a story about how each group focuses on different things.
- Data is the new currency. The massive amount of data being generated through emerging technologies is an ever-increasing challenge for IT.
- Learn about how the data-driven omnichannel experience trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Department Stores IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business to be a reliable operator and effective partner, all while finding time and resources to be innovative.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating on our unique IT Spend Benchmarking, you will gain critical insights to position your IT team to be more strategic.
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Department Stores IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their clients are unsatisfied with the quality of service they are receiving from IT.
- Understand important focus areas to address and insights into how your team compares with other Retail IT organizations.
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Core Industry Technologies
Department Stores Point of Sale Report
- A modern point of sale (PoS) system has many features and capabilities that optimize operations, enhance customer experience, and assist in selling through various sales channels, which make them very complex.
- Learn about what a PoS system is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Department Stores ERP Report
- Modern ERP systems have a lot to offer in automating processes, reducing the amount of manual, routine work, and facilitating the flow of information across business units.
- But ERP projects are long, complex, and costly initiatives that drive massive changes to the way people work.
- Learn about what ERP is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Department Stores Demand Planning Report
- Demand planning is an essential component of the overall supply chain planning, but for a department store, it is one of the most crucial processes in setting up the business for success.
- A player in the Retail sector needs to understand where the greatest demand planning value is and select solutions accordingly.
- Learn about what demand planning is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Latest Department Stores Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
Discussion Summary: Info-Tech LIVE Las Vegas Retail & Wholesale Industries Roundtable
Date published
December 19, 2019
Author:
Info-Tech LIVE took place November 19-21 in Las Vegas, NV. Here, we hosted nine Industry Roundtables focused on the direct and longer-term ripple effects of Industry 4.0 and its hallmark technologies on the different industry sectors. Read this summary of the Retail & Wholesale conversation to learn the main challenges and opportunities your peers think Industry 4.0 presents and what they believe are the next steps to manage this sea change successfully.
Problematic IT Processes for Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods: Business Continuity, Enterprise Architecture, and Disaster Recovery Planning
Date published
December 2, 2019
Author:
Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic provides industry-level insights on the challenges of IT departments. We use a concept known as Service Gap to compare the rated importance of a particular IT process with its effectiveness. Use this data to review the existing IT strategy. Ensure that it includes initiatives that adequately address these shortcomings.
First GDPR…Now CCPA? Privacy Implications for the Retail Industry
Date published
October 17, 2019
Author:
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) forced many organizations to implement data privacy practices, but now the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) looms closer. What will this mean for the retail industry?
Loyalty Management Programs: Choosing the Right Deployment Architecture in a Retail Environment
Date published
August 6, 2019
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Many organizations struggle to define the appropriate technology architecture for the enablement of their loyalty programs. This note will examine different methods for rolling out applications and systems for effectively managing loyalty programs.
Establishing a Balanced Scorecard for IT Performance in the Retail Industry Is an Important Complement to IT Strategy
Date published
June 11, 2019
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The IT balanced scorecard must go beyond the usual IT metrics. To be most effective, the IT balanced scorecard must demonstrate the value IT provides and reflect corporate strategies and goals.
Benchmarking Reports
Industry-specific benchmarking reports built on years of in-depth industry data, collected using our innovative diagnostic programs. We aggregate the data across hundreds of IT departments in your industry to give you tailored vertical insights, all packaged in professional boardroom-ready reports.
Department Stores Reference Architecture
Reference architectures built on years of industry expertise, honed by analysts working with real IT professionals in your industry. Leverage industry best practices so you don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel.