Rolls Royce Goes Electric, Foreshadowing Industry Challenges

Widespread adoption of electric vehicles looms—but first, retailers need to take a geographic approach to sales across diverse markets.

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Spotting New Business Opportunities in Consumer Data

The pressure to develop new business opportunities is driving digital and traditional companies toward more precise market analysis.

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DICK’s Sporting Goods Strengthens Omnichannel through Brick and Mortar Planning

For data-savvy DICK’S Sporting Goods, an optimized network of brick-and-mortar stores remains critically important to customer engagement.

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How Stores Can Thrive—By Learning from Failure

A new study suggests companies have as much to learn from store closures as they do from expansions, and location plays a compelling role.

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New Life for High-Speed Rail

As the US gets serious about improving its infrastructure, high-speed trains are back in the spotlight, with new implications.

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Gaining Retail Advantage in the Post-COVID-19 Era

The key to coming out of the pandemic with the competitive edge? Be agile, know where your customers are, and mind the details in the data.

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NextTech: Mapping the Business Impact of Air Pollution

Air pollution is not only a health hazard, it's also bad for business. A new tool helps executives weigh its effects on market development.

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The Privacy Paradox: How Companies Gain Consumer Confidence in Data Sharing

A new study illuminates why companies must win consumer trust when it comes to data sharing—and where in the world trust is highest.

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NextTech: Retailers Combine CRM and GIS to Understand Customers

CRM technology helps companies organize information on customers; GIS software helps them discover and share insight.

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NextTech: Visualizing Consumer Traffic

Using a modern version of a centuries-old technique, planners can study anonymized IoT data to see patterns of human movement.

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