Tag: imported
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Link: DICK’S Sporting Goods Poised to Continue its Successful Digital Transformation Journey
Another important aspect of the new retail experience is buy-online, pickup in-store. This is an easy way to bring consumer gratification that even free two-day shipping can’t match. Shoppers are using stores as pickup points at record rates during the holiday season, especially those on a time crunch or placing orders too late for on-time…
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Link: Camera scanning vehicles result in big jump in parking fines
Before Amsterdam started using scanning vehicles in 2013, the Dutch capital issued 18.5 million euros in parking fines. Last year Amsterdam issued nearly 30 million euros in parking fines, an increase of 61 percent. Before using scanning vehicles, Rotterdam issued 177,895 parking fines in 2014. In 2016 that increased by 86 percent to 330,326, before…
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Link: Twelve IT Project Disasters Demonstrate There are No “Safe” Choices
Laundry list of ERP project failures. Source: Twelve IT Project Disasters Demonstrate There are No “Safe” Choices
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Link: Target’s same-day deliveries might break my Amazon Prime addiction
Source: Target’s same-day deliveries might break my Amazon Prime addiction
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Link: System Integrator Risk Mitigation Processes Often Have the Opposite Effect
How can it be that projects continue to go wildly over budget or result in significant business disruptions but profits by systems integrators continue to rise? How is it that with fixed price contracts, modern implementation tools, and supposed sophisticated project management capabilities, clients are still getting burned? Source: System Integrator Risk Mitigation Processes Often…
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Link: Insurance startup Lemonade expands into Europe
Now insure your Canadian Goose jacket through Instagram in Paris. Source: Insurance startup Lemonade expands into Europe
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Link: Earwear and Watches Expected to Drive Wearables Market at a CAGR of 7.9%, Says IDC
The market for wearable devices is on track to reach global shipments of 222.9 million units in 2019, growing to 302.3 million units in 2023 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9% Source: Earwear and Watches Expected to Drive Wearables Market at a CAGR of 7.9%, Says IDC
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Link: Domino’s will start robot pizza deliveries in Houston this year
Tasty. Source: Domino’s will start robot pizza deliveries in Houston this year
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Link: Police wasted €400,000 on ‘redundant’ emergency app: report
Due to delays and setbacks, the deadline to launch the app in the spring of 2017 was never reached. Construction of the app only started in February 2018. In that period the current Minister of Justice and Security, Ferdinand Grapperhaus, suddenly announced that – contrary to all previous decisions – he is giving priority to…
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Link: Is voice over-hyped? A new survey suggests lower adoption than previously thought
Source: Is voice over-hyped? A new survey suggests lower adoption than previously thought
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Link: Exploring New Ways of Working in New Zealand
Most, if not all, teams I have worked with (in the capacity as the Agile Coach in The Lab) do not know what truly matters to their customers. Through numerous planning sessions with key stakeholders from ‘the business’, they gather requirements for their product development. These plans sound great until you start asking a few…
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Link: Electric car charging interoperability is the next big thing in mobility
The arrangement doesn’t mean EV owners need to run out and add a Hubject account. All of this should be invisible to the end user—Hubject’s actual customers are the charging networks or utilities. Its platform provides an API that different charging networks can use to make that interoperability painless for drivers. “Our software is middleware…
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Link: Applications of data science and machine learning in financial services
There’s a customer acquisition piece and then there’s a customer retention piece. For customer acquisition, we can see that new technologies can really add value by looking at all sorts of data sources that can help a financial service company identify who they want to target to provide those services. So, it’s a great place…
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Link: How Dick’s Sporting Goods’ CTO untangles spaghetti silos
There’s a level of empathy needed for those on the frontline when making business decisions, especially decisions related to IT. Effective leaders are concerned with making the right call, said Gaffney. Ineffective leaders tend to implement practices and approaches that take small incremental de-risking steps, “led by dates and budgets and not happy humans.” Source:…
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