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Retail innovation playbook: Fast, economical transformation on Microsoft Cloud

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All this while retailers are still dealing with pandemic-related disruptions to supply chains and consumer shopping habits. To win back consumers and protect profit margins, retailers need to optimize operations across the enterprise. Delays in getting data is one of the biggest challenges retailers currently face.”

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Securing the Digital-First Model for Retail

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Retailers continue to adopt a digital-first approach to customer experience, both in-store and online. To meet the customer demands of a digital-first business model, retailers need to address their critical digital infrastructure and rethink network design and cybersecurity. Retail-specific vulnerabilities.

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Piyush Chowhan, CIO, Panda Retail: Leadership positions demand tough decisions

CIO

With more than two decades of experience working in global consumer and retail companies, Piyush Chowhan is passionate for transforming businesses by leveraging technology. Chowhan: I’m a retail and consumer technology evangelist who loves to enable enterprise transformation. Digital Transformation, Retail Industry

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Composability, come costruire – mattone dopo mattone – un’azienda Agile

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Per questo un numero crescente di CIO è attratto dai paradigmi dell’IT agile e “componibile” e del DevOps, che collegano sviluppo e operazioni, rendendo più facile creare le applicazioni che servono al business e mettere al centro la customer experience.

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Modernizing enterprise architecture for the digital era

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With digital operating models altering business processes and the IT landscape, enterprise architecture (EA) — a rigid stalwart of IT — has shown signs of evolving as well. That’s where the opportunity is for enterprise architects, among others.” Therefore EA is broadening its focus, too.

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Tractor Supply enlists AI to deliver ‘legendary’ customer service

CIO

The rural lifestyle retailer, with more than 2,200 stores across the US, caters to the needs of rural residents with a wide variety of products on its shelves. The tech team is extremely agile.” It’s still difficult, although not impossible, to calculate the return on investment for AI use in retail, she says. Tractor Supply Co.

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Why adaptability is the new digital transformation

CIO

Disruption has moved from the exception to the norm With disruption now a constant rather than one-off event, organizations must be able to quickly react to change with agility across all aspects of their operating models. Here’s why. It’s no longer sufficient to pursue after-the-fact transformations.

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