Latest | Volume 07 Issue 1
The Future of Retailing
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How technology is driving business change.
Featured Articles
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More than half of humanity currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations predicts that figure will reach 70 percent by 2050. Cities worldwide already generate a significant amount of solid waste annually, adding to vexing issues that the global community is trying to address–demand for transportation, air pollution, access to public open spaces, urban sprawl, and general sustainability challenges.
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JUMBO Group shows how digital transformation and its seafood business can go together.
From the Editor
How technology is driving business change.
At The Helm
An interview with Piyush Gupta, Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group.
Vantage Point
Digital technology, including e-commerce and e-market exchanges, has been the most significant disruptive force for the retail industry in the last two decades.
Industry Watch
'Silver tech' allows for a scalable and sustainable solution for intelligent monitoring, detection and notification of anomalous events, and collaborative support for seniors living alone.
Manoeuvring infrastructure and digitisation challenges on a massive track network that runs nearly 70,000 route kilometres.
Improving predictions and allocations to determine the optimal matching of demand and supply in a dynamic, uncertain future.
Case In Point
How Starbucks faces the emergence of ‘new retail’, or the seamless integration of offline and online retail.
Executive Brief
Building scale and volume rapidly is key to surviving the roller-coaster journey and staying the course for a digital entrepreneur.
Industry pundits have long prophesised that the days of brick-and-mortar retail will soon be over, and e-commerce will triumph. However, the truth is that physical retail sales continue to outstrip online sales by a huge margin—global retail e-commerce sales accounted for 14 percent of total retail sales as at May 2019 (refer to Figure 1).
Understanding cultural signals by exploring the ‘hidden part of the iceberg’ and communicating the benefits of change to team members.
The Entrepreneur's Corner
An interview with Rajesh Lingappa, co-founder and former chief technology officer of RedMart.
