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Building a Retail Value Segmentation Model in Less than 10 Minutes
The first step in customer-centric retailing is to get a sense of which of your customers are the most important to your business and...
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How Alibaba is using Bra Size to Predict Online Shopping Habits
There is a short read on Quartz discussing data mining and analytics at Alibaba and some examples of findings – worth the read. How...
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Tesco’s Downfall is a Warning to Data-Driven Retailers
Michael Schrage wrote an article for HBR titled Tesco’s Downfall Is a Warning to Data-Driven Retailers. The premise of the article is...
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Can Clouds Increase Visibility? The Customer Woods for the Product Trees
“The problem with our business” the exec at a several hundred retail store chain said, as he forlornly stared down into his coffee cup...
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When the Man Who Sparked the Customer Revolution Speaks…. We Listen
At 11Ants Analytics we’ve got a lot of respect for Don Peppers. Along with Martha Rogers, he’s undoubtedly authored some of the most...
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Building Customer Engagement and Loyalty In Retail
James Taylor has written an excellent white paper of broad interest to retailers: Building Customer Engagement and Loyalty in Retail. ...
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The New Digital Divide – Retailers, Shoppers, and The Digital Influence Factor.
Deloitte in a new report discuss the impact of digital on retailing. There is much in this report and if you are a retailer that is...
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How One Woman Hid Her Pregnancy from Big Data
It’s just over two years since the New York Times shocked half the free world with their article How Companies Learn Your Secrets – in...
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Persuading with Data- HBR Insight Centre
Anyone involved in working with data will find this short series of articles and videos interesting and likely useful. The video of Kurt...
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Buy a Scale on Amazon, and it thinks you’re a Drug Dealer
CNET carried an interesting article today which speaks volumes on how much retailers can learn by better understanding their...
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Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal write a thought-provoking article discussing six myths about customer loyalty programs on the Harvard...
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Home Depot’s Focus on Growth Existing Stores Revenue
Dramatic illustration of capacity for growth within your existing retail stores. It begs the question – what price to understand your...
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