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How Global Brands Create Insanely Great Customer Experiences

Mark Wang, Chief Data Scientist, Alorica

Travel Centers Digitalized

Michael Rodgers, Chief Strategy & Information Officer, Pilot Flying J

Autonomy with Constraints Empowers Teams to Deliver Results

David Jensen, Director of Ecommerce Engineering, Photobox

IoT as an Enabler to Operations and Commercial Strategies

Matt Meier, VP & CIO, Whirlpool Corporation

ECM, "The Dragon" to Deliver Business Value

Thomas Phelps IV, CIO & VP-Corporate Strategy, Laserfiche

ECM,

One key metric in realigning IT is the percentage of IT spend focused on “keeping the lights on” versus business innovation.

Transforming Retail with Social, Mobile and Analytics

Michael Mothner, CEO, Wpromote

Transforming Retail with Social, Mobile and Analytics

A holistic 360 degree view of the customer requires insight into the marketing data.

The Big Mistake Department Stores Make with Their Online Services

Brad Bernstein, SVP of North American Sales, Nanorep

​No question, the growth of e-commerce has completely changed the game for retail customer service.

Going Mobile to Encourage Shopper Loyalty

George Pepes, Retail Vertical Solutions Lead, Zebra Technologies [NASDAQ: ZBRA]

Going Mobile to Encourage Shopper Loyalty

Retailers are starting to look toward enterprise-grade mPOS solutions that offer a consumer device-like interface design while meeting the durability, power and security needs of business

Technology Changes to Supply Chains Demand Good Leadership

Kevin Glynn, VP and CIO, DSC Logistics

Technology Changes to Supply Chains Demand Good Leadership

Our work in supply chain is changing rapidly as we implement new technology. Our leadership challenge as CIOs and IT leaders is not only to describe what the new technology will do.

How to Build an Agile Supply Chain Ready for What's Next in Retail

Susanna Zhu, Vice President, Head of U.S. Supply Chain Operations, The Hershey Company

How to Build an Agile Supply Chain Ready for What's Next in Retail

Today, the shopper has many choices: home delivery, order online pick up in-store, a visit to the local market, subscription services and more.

Retail Is Detail They Say

Stuart Freer, Chief Digital Officer, MECCA Brands

Retail Is Detail They Say

The problem with this statement, is that whilst it’s important to be in the detail, know everything about your business, it’s products and services and the customer, it often leads to what I have seen; analysis paralysis.

Driving Transformative, Data-Driven Thinking

Shubham Mehrish, Vice President, Mars

Driving Transformative, Data-Driven Thinking

Analytics is one of the important cogs in our Mars digital engine to help drive our digital transformation at 100x speed.

Mobisoft: Streamlining B2B E-Commerce at Fingertips

Matan Holander, VP Business Development

Mobisoft: Streamlining B2B E-Commerce at Fingertips

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce has evolved at multiple levels. Evidently, understanding the unique purchasing preferences of the modern day buyers have become increasingly critical to the long-term growth of B2B merchants.

A Century of Success: Red Wing Shoes Innovates for Continued Growth

Marc Kermisch, VP & CIO, Red Wing Shoe Co.

A Century of Success: Red Wing Shoes Innovates for Continued Growth

A commitment to innovation, quality and customer service has propelled Red Wing Shoes to a company whose leadership has stood the test of time.

Redefining Retail Industry with IoT and Big Data

Douglas Turk, Chief Marketing Officer, JLT Speciality

The retail insurance broking industry is facing an onslaught of new technologies with a promise of transformational change and value creation.

Service Management in the Age of Digitization

Douglas Duncan, CIO, Columbia Insurance Group

Service Management in the Age of Digitization

If there is one thing that has been a core function of IT shops large and small over the years, it is the delivery of service.

POS Systems Can Now Become Artificial Intelligence Weapons

Lucas E. Wall, CEO, ROI Checker

POS Systems Can Now Become Artificial Intelligence Weapons

In recent years we have seen significant scientific contributions to the field of human influence, which studies how the people we know and interact with influence the decisions we make.

Optimizing a 360-degree Customer View Begins with Vision

Michael Wilburn, Senior Director, Global CRM Technology at Ancestry

Optimizing a 360-degree Customer View Begins with Vision

What is preventing organizations from truly optimizing their 360-degree view of the customer? I’ll give you a hint - it’s not technology.

Danger Ahead for C Level in Digital Commerce and Job Role Ambiguity

Alan Royal, Head of Technology Innovation and Business Transformation, Strategy CIO

Danger Ahead for C Level in Digital Commerce and Job Role Ambiguity

IT project failure rates today still are in excess of 40 percent.

Rebuilding the Ecommerce Value Chain

Jackson Fernandez, Head of Ecommerce, PUMA Group [ETR: PUM]

Rebuilding the Ecommerce Value Chain

The world around us is rapidly evolving. Fuelled by the ubiquity of digital devices and high speed internet, the technologies and modalities of doing business are getting obsolete by the day, while more advanced methodologies are replacing them.