by Jeff Roster | January 26, 2010 | Comments Off
This really is a tremendous study with a 20 year history of excellence. If you’re a retailer and have seen the survey link in your email box please, please, please take the 20 minutes to complete the study. Your insights and options are valuable and help shape my thoughts for this year. If you haven’t [...]
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by Jeff Roster | March 12, 2009 | 3 Comments
Below are excerpts from the Executive Summary for the Gartner/RIS News Tech Study . We’ll be releasing the study and presenting the data next month at the Retail Technology Conference 2009. Follow the runup to the conference on Twitter at #RTC The year 2009 will long be remembered as a time of great challenge for [...]
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by Jeff Roster | January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’ve repeatedly been asked my thoughts on what Web 2.0 tools retail and technology executives should use. I am by no means an expert in this subject. But I have been exploring this area fairly aggressively and will pass along my observations. LinkedIn – To me this is a no brainer. This is a powerful [...]
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by Jeff Roster | December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
This year I’m going to participate in a Gartner series of reports titled “Cool Vendors” It’s designed to look at small emerging vendors. In my case they need to have a significant focus on retail. The definition is fairly squishy. See below: “Gartner’s annual Cool Vendors Special Report focuses on lesser-known, emerging vendors that may [...]
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by Jeff Roster | December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments
Wednesday, the day before the US Thanksgiving holiday, was to be a quiet day of writing. I had no inquiries scheduled and definitely needed to get several reports completed as well as peer review several colleagues documents. Then the email arrived. It was a note from Timothy Kasbe, CIO of Reliance Retail, India describing his [...]
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by Jeff Roster | November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
Despite all the hand wringing and negative press to the contrary I do expect NRF to be quite busy. So what do I expect from the Big Show 2009: Solid Attendance- NRF is the grand dame of retail shows. It is the one to see and be seen at. Many, many retailers will be there. I [...]
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