Consumer Industries & Retail: Related White Papers
- Tomorrow's Shopping World – Insights Into How Lifestyles and Technology Will Shape the Future of Retail PDF, 1.4M
- Despite talk of market maturity, food retailing will still be here for the next generation but how will it look? How will changing lifestyles and developing technologies shape the way we shop in the future?
- A Matter of Trust: Secure Computing in an Age of Uncertainty PDF, 89K
- Network security is a hot topic in most IT shops these days, and rightly so. The Participation Age has ushered in a wave of unwanted participants – hackers, thieves, competitors and terrorists. Securing client computers on “untrusted” networks requires both user security and machine security. This is an article from synnovation Magazine.
- Green Versus Lean
- Sustainable and/or green behaviors, including recycling and lowering emissions and carbon footprints, are increasingly being contemplated – or required – by corporate boards, consumers and, in many cases, governmental entities. And leading retailers and CPG companies are seeking innovative new ways to achieve this “Green” vision while continuing to support the growth and productivity that’s so critical to their continued success.
- Leaving Your Legacy: The Importance of Creating a Plan For Modernization PDF, 84K
- In a perfect world you would build your next IT system from the ground up and then populate it with data from your old system. In the real world it just isn’t that easy. Modernizing an enterprise legacy system isn’t a cut-and-dry endeavor. This is an article from synnovation Magazine.
- Operational Agility
- The world’s leading consumer and packaged goods (CPG) companies are focused on sustainable, profitable growth. To become nimbler, more efficient organizations – and support their growth plans – they’re pursuing IT transformation. In this paper, we examine their tactics and suggest how other firms in the industry can emulate this model to ensure their own success.
- Outsourcing In a Multichannel Environment
- Traditional retailers are exploring optimal ways to modernize and expand their direct channels, investing in new, or enhancing existing, online or self-service capabilities. Increasingly, retailers are challenged by changing regulations, such as country-of-origin inspections, enhanced Payment Card Industry (PCI) scrutiny, postal changes, payment options, new e-commerce options and mobile commerce. These changes add complexity and increase the costs required to meet demands and manage supply chains. The majority of retailers are working to cost-effectively create cross-channel, integrated order-entry, customer-service and fulfillment capabilities that improve customer insight and service.
- Securing the Enterprise Wireless LAN
- The depth and breadth of wireless devices continues to grow, and it's a boon for businesses as workers are more mobile than at any time in the past. But that freedom comes with a very real threat of significant security breaches. Companies must protect themselves by employing solutions that secure the enterprise wireless local-area network.
- Service-Oriented Architecture In the Retail Sector
- In this viewpoint paper, EDS describes a process-oriented, opportunity-driven approach to the implementation of SOA in the retail environment. This phased, results-oriented approach allows companies to create services that respond flexibly to changes in consumer demand, product design and supply-chain operations. This approach encourages companies to start small, to generate efficiencies and revenues from specific process improvements, and then to extend the shared benefits of SOA as new opportunities arise.
- The Edge of Reason: Managing Data, Knowledge and Intelligence For Business Success PDF, 235K
- No one would dispute the fact that data is important, and management of data across its lifecycle, as well as the evolution of data from simple facts to useful business intelligence, are critical to the ongoing success of today’s rapidly evolving enterprise. This is an article from synnovation Magazine.