April 2, 2015
By Doug Stephens Walmart is doomed. And they’re not alone. Macy’s, Tesco, Target and BestBuy – to name only a few – are also coming to […]
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 […]
October 10, 2013
By Doug Stephens My friend Eric Garland a.k.a. @ericgarland recently tweeted, “We encourage work-life balance but we reward obsession.” So true, I thought. In […]
May 10, 2013
By Doug Stephens Over the last holiday shopping season, Amazon was clocking in 306 transactions per second! Photo app Instagram achieved a market value of […]
April 2, 2013
By Doug Stephens Here’s an incredibly simple test to see just how future-ready your business is. Try answering the following question. What exactly […]
March 14, 2013
By Doug Stephens In the old age of business the goal for most companies was continuous improvement. The idea was to keep the engines of innovation […]
February 1, 2013
By Doug Stephens Human beings are fundamentally resistant to change. Most of us would be happy carrying on with an as-is world that is largely free […]
January 22, 2013
By Doug Stephens Our entire concept of retail is predicated on one very simple series of paradigms; manufacturers make things, that are parceled out in smaller […]
January 2, 2013
By Doug Stephens O.K., suspend your disbelief just for a moment and hear me out… In 1999, Joe Pine and James Gilmore, authors of The Experience […]