Brand Strategy

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5 Insights for a 5G World

Consumers have made a significant shift to shopping and banking online and through their mobile devices. Despite this, the promised benefits of utilizing mobile to make the bricks-and-mortar experience more convenient and engaging have not yet come to fruition. Mobile devices have evolved significantly, but the bandwidth that serves as their backbone has not, leaving

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The Three Big Changes That Are Coming to Banking (And How to Handle Them)

Where will disruption in the banking industry come from next? Just when banks have caught up to digital banking platforms innovated by Fintechs and are embarking on building meaningful, trusting relationships with customers, something else will come along and throw a wrench in the works. Knowing what’s coming is half the battle. Read this white

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5 Ways To Ensure Your Employees Embrace Change

The majority of companies today are going through varying degrees of transformation to remain competitive. The changes range from improving efficiencies through new technologies and processes to rethinking supply chain in order to gain greater value. Irrespective of the degree or area of change, the biggest challenge in ensuring organizational change is executed quickly is

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Worksheet: Finding the Insights that Drive Foresight

There are various types of research and it can be difficult to determine when best to use them as you look to gain insights throughout the transformation process for both internal and external stakeholder validation. To assist in planning and implementing a consumer study here is a worksheet with eight easy-to-follow and understand steps. WHAT

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Retail Prophet

The Store as a Media Channel

Physical stores have the potential to become the most powerful media channel available to brands, but it requires that everything about the physical store, how it’s planned, located, designed, staffed, and measured must be re-engineered. Today we speak with futurist, author, businesses advisor, and the founder and president of Retail Prophet, Doug Stephens. Transcript Melinda: Hi,

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Using Neuroscience to Better Understand Consumer Behavior

For brands, the key to growing marketshare and consumer loyalty often lies in fulfilling consumer’s deep subconscious emotional needs that other brands have failed to meet. Delivered through innovative and at times disruptive products and solutions, many companies have accomplished this feat by moving a consumer from needing something to desiring it. Getting to the heart of what drives

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Part 2: Artificial Intelligence and the Retail Industry

We’re back with Kunal Chopra for Part 2 of our discussion about artificial intelligence. In Part 1, Kunal defined artificial intelligence and gave us a high level understanding of what it. Now we’re going to talk about the application of artificial intelligence to the world of retail. In this episode, Kunal is going to tell us

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INSPIRE ’19

The International Luxury Hotel Association will be hosting their eighth event, INSPIRE ’19, at the Four Seasons Miami from December 3-4, 2019. As part of the conference, SLD’s Jean-Pierre Lacroix will be speaking on the future scenarios that will have the greatest impact on the luxury hotel industry. Seeing the Future Around the Corner Most

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Think Global Conference

Shikatani Lacroix Design’s founder and president, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, will be speaking at the 2019 Think Global Conference, hosted by The International Trade Council. Jean-Pierre’s talk will be centred around how brands can future-proof their organization, and will leverage 30 years of industry experience and research. Steps to Future-Proofing Your Organization Taking a short-term view of

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How Telcos Can Remain Relevant

How Telco Companies Can Remain Relevant

Cable, internet, and mobile phones have been the bread and butter of telcos for many years, however, growth in these categories is dwindling and brands are beginning to feel the heat. Today, we speak to Will Gibson, a telco retail and marketing expert who’s seen the industry shift from his days at Blockbuster to becoming

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