by Dean van Leeuwen | Feb 21, 2013 | Archive
The food and retail grocery industry is reeling from the horsemeat scandal, which displays a number of consumer trends and sentiments that can be associated with competitive advantage in the Connection Economy. The most important one is not that there is horsemeat in...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Feb 13, 2013 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
We don’t. Yes, another big UK retailer, Republic, bit the dust today. It’s been an incredibly tough few years for the High Street, with retailers having to negotiate through the challenges of out-of-town retail parks, online competition and the deepest recession in...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jan 30, 2013 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Leadership
Richard Branson recently said “there is no real difference between work and play – it’s all living” How profoundly true this statement is. I spent yesterday speaking at the excellent Business Leaders Group and the concept of where we work and how we work...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jan 29, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends
What if a retailer could anticipate what a customer needs before they even realise it themselves? US store Target, famously got into hot water when it used analytics to predict when customers were pregnant in order to benefit from their upswing in spending and sent...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jan 25, 2013 | Archive, Change
Today we launch our new Tomorrow’s Retail report and we hope you take the chance to download and read it. And please don’t think that if you don’t work in retail, it’s not for you. One of the things we focus on at TomorrowToday is how technologies and innovations...
