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Retailers are reading more stories and downloading more reports than ever on the RIS website. Here are two top-10 lists showing topics with strong trend lines.
Have you noticed the pace of paradigm shifts has accelerated? It’s almost worthy of an iPhone app: Get your daily paradigm shift and be the first to identify the next Gutenberg moment! There are lots of reasons why the pace is accelerating, but Don Tapscott has combined them into a single macro concept worthy of consideration.
Sony Electronics has opened its first newly branded Sony store in the U.S. in Los Angeles. The redesign features interactive elements that engage shoppers from the moment they enter, and the store will serve as a testing ground as Sony transitions other stores.
With its $2.4 billion purchase of GSI Commerce, eBay moves even more aggressively into e-commerce. The online auction company, which already owns PayPal, will seek to leverage both GSI's solutions and its relationships with its leading retail customers.
The days of the U.S., Europe and Japan producing 50 percent of global GDP are numbered. The cloud plus mobile plus social equals a new computing model. Death of POS as we know it. Consumerization of technology becomes a never-ending wave. Death of the retail task worker. Learn about these and other mega trends impacting retail.
Retailers must build agility into their long-term strategic IT plans to deal with new business requirements and technologies. Download this Thought Leadership report to learn the key elements of a successful long-term plan.