by Jeff Roster | December 14, 2009 | Comments Off
I find this project to be the highlight of my year for a couple of reasons: 1. Working with Joe Skorupa and the RIS News team is a real pleasure. They are a terrific group of professionals and all really love this industry. 2. There’s not an event I go to where I don’t meet a respondent to [...]
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Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Retail Retail IT Marketing Retail Spending Tags: retail, Retail events, social media, trends, Utilities IT spend
by Jeff Roster | November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment
This time of year means 3 things to me: 1. Have I made my hotel reservation for NRF? 2. What to get my wife for Christmas 3. Which retail exec’s should I nominate for the slew of articles being written this time of year. So this year I’m going to ask all of you to help [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Tags: retail, retail IT executive
by Jeff Roster | October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
I heard an interesting news story on the radio this morning and I believe it marks the first positive news story about Christmas I’ve heard this year. Unfortunately it was not from the retailer’s perspective, but from the consumers. Basically the jest was this will be a highly promotional Christmas with deals early and often. [...]
Category: Retail Observations Tags: retail
by Jeff Roster | October 6, 2008 | Comments Off
Openworld I found the mood at the retail sessions this year to be quite somber. To me there’s no question that this was caused by the ever growing financial crisis just breaking. Retailers were, and are, clearly worried about the impact of all this bad news on the psyche of their customers. No question market [...]
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Category: Retail Industry Events Tags: adoption, retail, ROI
by Jeff Roster | September 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Welcome to the first installment of the Industry Market Strategies blog. I hope to use this forum to create a multidirectional conversation to discuss verticalization in the technology service provider community in general and anything retail in specific. With my teammates in IMS we spend a great deal of time studying financial services, manufacturing, telecom, [...]
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Category: Retail Observations Tags: multichannel, retail, software
