Retail is detail. When did we forget?
Retail is under fire. Stores are closing, figures don’t add up. But why, asks Jeffrey Tepel, when there is such a clear example of what works? Is there an industry, right now, especially – but not exclusively – in the more economically developed countries, undergoing more change and under more threat than physical retail? Stores ...
Christmas miracles do still happen
The retail industry has spent millions shooting itself in the foot… and unwittingly helped children (and parents) everywhere. That’s the power of Christmas, says Adam Burns.
Risk Assessment – The World’s Riskiest Companies
Amidst the global recession of the last two years, the news of profit losses, job cutbacks and business closures soon became a daily occurrence. While the meltdown of the global banking sector spearheaded the headlines, the ensuing impact on our daily lives really took effect as the recession hit our retailers hard. With everyone across ...
A Bite of the Apple
Stumble into Apple’s App Store and you are greeted with literally thousands of applications you can download for your iPhone. The reason is simple: in a world of constant mobility and interactivity, both smartphone and app markets have gone stratospheric. Today applications cover all aspects of life, helping users do everything from managing budgets, locating ...
Zappos.com: A Lesson in Leadership
If you ever wanted a lesson on good leadership, you’d be hard pushed to find one better than the awesome display of ingenuity displayed by Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos.com, last week. News transpired that internet retailer 6pm.com had, mistakenly priced almost all of its products at $49.99. The error was pretty unforgiving, given that some ...
Yabba Dabba Does It: Cartoons and Creative Thinking
The release of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park frankly terrified me. In 1993, as an eight-year-old child, it was the first time I had ever really been conscious of what dinosaurs were capable of. One scene in particular has forever plagued me. In it, child actors Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards are in the compound’s ...
Weekly Roundup: Week Two
Here at MeetTheBoss we pride ourselves on the quality of our content. So what better way to share with you the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème, every Friday for the week’s best content, than with a weekly roundup?! As you may already know, as well as ...
4 Lessons From HMV’s Twitter Burn
What happens when your company goes into administration, you push the big red ‘redundancy’ button – and you don’t know who’s got control of your Twitter feed? Last week, the soon-to-be-defunct powers over at British entertainment retailer HMV found out. If you haven’t heard already, things got a little heated when around 60 of their HQ ...
Securing Success With the Online Retail Sector
A new report released this week revealed that more than 15,000 people have become victims of fraud in the first six months of 2010. The report, which focuses on UK consumers, was compiled by Action Fraud – the national fraud reporting centre – and reveals that the amount of money people had been tricked out ...
Adidas Pushing the Boundaries with Innovation
Adidas are the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe and the second biggest sportswear manufacturer in the world, after its US rival Nike, yet CEO and Chairman Herbert Hainer knows that size is in no way as important as speed and dynamism when it comes to business. “The size [of the company] doesn’t matter. If that ...