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Covid-19 Accelerates The Need for Retail, Manufacturing Supply Chains To Adapt

Cloudera

The ongoing disruption to critical supply chains in both the manufacturing and retail space has seen businesses having to respond quickly, turning to data, analytics, and new technologies to better predict and manage ‘real-time’ business disruptions. . Brent Biddulph: . Data and analytics.

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Covid-19 Accelerates The Need for Retail, Manufacturing Supply Chains To Adapt – Part 2

Cloudera

Physical retail stores – Expect retailers to optimize space allocations moving away from a reactive to a more proactive supply chain design approach rooted in deep, layered real-time data that supports sophisticated decision making. Long term impact on retailers. Brent Biddulph: .

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What business executives don’t understand about IT

CIO

At that time, Sears was the world’s largest retailer and it was just beginning to use the new System 360 from IBM. What IT’s role is in corporate strategic planning Next, the company’s top executives must ensure that the CIO participates in the corporate strategic planning process.

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Placer.ai, a location analytics startup, finds $100M at a $1B valuation

TechCrunch

Today, Placer has around 1,000 customers across real estate and property, retail, consumer packaged goods and municipalities — some of the names include JLL, Regency Centers, Taubman, Planet Fitness, BJ’s Wholesale Club and Grocery Outlet — which are using it to determine anonymized crowd movement, size and sentiment to help with their (..)

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

Some, like the approximately 100 outlets operated by farm and agriculture supply retailer Peavey Mart, had redundant access to other internet providers already in place. Check your suppliers’ backup plans. “Do It is much better than facing a cyber breach!”. And we ask those questions up front.”.

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How Foodstuffs North Island’s IT team weathered recent NZ storms to keep stores operational

CIO

Consumer-grade Starlinks were sourced in retail outlet Noel Leemings in Gisborne, but they were unable to pay for the units online and get them delivered. The incident, as a result, prompted him and a small team to start work on a strategic plan to address emergency situations and contingencies to keep stores operational for customers.

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Break the Model! How Challenging Status Quo Makes Lasting Impact

Mills Scofield

They are the epitome of how to create an amazing strategic plan that achieves their mission and vision in innovative ways will (hopefully) make them no longer needed. shutterstock I want to share the amazing work of Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio*.

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