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8 Steps to Planning a Successful Data Conversion
Implementing a new retail system is difficult. A new system can result in many great benefits; improved business processes, access to more and better data, improved analysis, more intuitive results,...
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Retail Data Conversions; Part Art, Part Science. Which is more important?
Data conversions must be exact, precise, methodical….WAIT, this all sounds very scientific and not creative at all. So what part of a data conversion can possibly have anything to do with ‘ART’? Let me...
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Is There a Place for MDM in Retail?
What is MDM? Master Data Management – according to wikipedia: MDM comprises a set of processes and tools that consistently defines and manages the non-transactional data entities of an organization...
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The Overnight Cycle Part II: The Cure for Insomnia
What’s the right way to tackle the problem of the creeping overnight cycle? There are two answers; 1) Throw money at the problem, or 2) Retool. Throwing money: The easiest hardware upgrade to get...
View ArticleThe Cost of Rushing I.T.!
We all fall victim to this. It’s the easy thing to do. It’s harder to put on the brakes. An urgent request comes to IT. After a quick brainstorming session, it is determined that a small change/fix or...
View ArticleIncreasing Need for Application Integration
I just finished reading the RIS News/Gartner report on Retail Technology. As always Jeff Roster of Gartner does a terrific job navigating the numerous trends that he and Gartner have been so ably...
View ArticleThe Business Value of Application Integration
Any discussion of value in business leads us to benefits. We talk about them all of the time in IT. But what are they really? My good friend and business advisor, Professor Bill Robinson, has...
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Does Excel Drive Your Business?
As we near the end of 2012, I continue to see the use of Excel in companies’ key business processes and analyses. This cannot continue! With an explosion of cloud apps for almost every business need,...
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The Infamous ‘Ballpark’ Estimate
Ballpark estimate, guesstimate, SWAG; all refer to the same thing and have a generally accepted definition – a rough estimate of effort to get the job done, based on the limited information provided....
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Omni-Channel Challenges; Integration Is Key
An interesting discussion ensued this week on Retailwire: Why Are Retailers Struggling to Integrate Shopping Channels? It raised the many challenges retailers face in achieving seamlessness between all...
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