June 9, 2015
By Doug Stephens Every day our consumer behavior is being steadily reprogrammed by digital inputs. For the nearly 70% of us who own smartphones, this reprogramming […]
May 28, 2015
By Doug Stephens Only a short time ago, the value that […]
February 3, 2015
By Doug Stephens Retail is facing a monumental problem that no one seems to want to talk about. It’s that the entire economic model of revenue […]
December 31, 2014
By Doug Stephens 2014 was yet another remarkable year for the retail industry. Big box players like Target and Walmart continued the frantic search for their […]
November 27, 2014
By Doug Stephens In my 2013 post, Ten Trends to Watch for in 2014, I said this would be the year we would hear much […]
November 11, 2014
By Doug Stephens While I was in Iceland earlier this year I shared some thoughts on the future of retail and on the characteristics and competencies […]
October 29, 2014
By Doug Stephens Amazon.com has announced that it will be opening it’s first brick and mortar store later this year, on New York’s iconic 34th Street. […]
October 20, 2014
By Doug Stephens I defy you to find a marketing conference today that doesn’t have at least one track focused on big data analytics. Big data […]
August 25, 2014
By Doug Stephens I, like you, don’t actually see everything my friends are posting on Facebook. Instead, I see only what Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm deems […]