By Patrick Anderson on 7/9/2009 9:34 AM

Intelligence in numbers is VERY common.  It should not be!

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By Patrick Anderson on 4/2/2009 9:19 PM

Retail Peacocks to the left of me, Retail Peacocks to the right of me!

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By Patrick Anderson on 3/10/2009 7:05 AM

Retailers should have RSS everywhere! If you do not know what RSS is, if you are an on-line retailer and you have any duties around the internet then you must ask yourself "Have I become complacent in my job". Okay first step is to catch up, RSS is Really Simple Syndication, that does not matter if you get it or not. It is simply a way to offer your content to anyone. "Why would I do that? It is mine mine mine!" I will tell you why. Read More »

By Patrick Anderson on 2/10/2009 6:18 AM

Why should any retailer consider blogging? Is it just for technophiles that want to talk about Star Trek reruns and scenarios (not that there is anything wrong with that). The answer is very simple and straight forward. Read More »

By Patrick Anderson on 9/9/2008 8:43 PM

With the big push to the cloud and IT embracing this, could this be then end for infrastructure and admins?

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By Patrick Anderson on 6/24/2008 9:53 AM

Being Green is a huge trend, I question the driving force, none-the-less it is here at the moment.  Companies are expected to be green even if you see no connection to being green on the company.

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By Patrick Anderson on 5/30/2008 11:36 AM

In the ecommerce/multichannel world you will hear a lot of talk about the long tail.  If you plot your inventory assortment on a x-axis and your sales on the y-axis and sort by inventory from left to right you will see it makes a tail.  Ecommerce is supposed to support the tail.

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By Patrick Anderson on 5/19/2008 7:30 AM

Based on my experience with websites and multi-channel I thought it would be valuable to offer my views on e-commerce state of the union if you will.

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By Patrick Anderson on 5/12/2008 11:42 AM

This entry talks to BI in the corporation and how the "good ol' boys" club has kept you thinking it is different than anything else you build or own.

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By Patrick Anderson on 5/3/2008 4:49 PM

Must read for CIOs; Marketing and IT have to work together.  The CIO is responsible for this relationship, or soon become extinct.  Customer Centricity and technology shifts have separated IT shoppes to have not middle ground either you are good and empower the business or you are no more than a wire that runs power and thought of as much.

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