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Business intelligence solutions for the retail industry

Traditionally, the retail industry has lagged behind other industries in adopting new technologies, and this holds true in its acceptance of BI technology. Some industries, such as financial...

Measuring marketing performance toolkit

There exist many definitions of marketing, in fact, too many. Together with the progression of the Internet, and consequently the development of new marketing techniques, technologies and stratagem,...

For Openers - 5 greetings that boost sales to walk-in visitors

Quick, what's the typical greeting used most often by 60% of retail stores? You're right if you guessed, “Can I help you?” The visitor's usual response, “No thanks, just looking.” The problem is the...

Window display - the new retail mantra

‘Window display’ is the fine art of displaying store merchandise in the store window. Window display is emerging as the new mantra in retail and is fast changing from a dull, uninteresting exhibition ...

The inside scoop on top retail trends for 2007

Predicting retail trends is never a task for the faint-hearted. So much risk is tied to the fickleness of consumers, who, as a collective class, are changing their buying preferences and habits with...

Pervasiveness of RFID in Indian businesses - Opportunities challenges and strategies

RFID is not a new concept. RFID tags consist of silicon chips and an antenna that can transmit data to a wireless receiver. With the field of wireless reading device, hundreds of tags can be read in...

Personal training: 6 secrets of award winning customer service

Would you believe that your ability to provide quality customer service to your clients is at least as important as your ability to get them results from their training program? Did you even know...

RFID - The future

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), the technology of the future, has long established itself in our everyday lives. It is already deployed in various areas ranging from efficient inventory...

Retail sales training essential to increase retail sales performance

Retail Sales Coaching should be designed to work on behalf of each individual Salesperson who wants to succeed for them, while being part of an environment that nurtures and speeds their growth

Role of mannequins in the retail industry

The word ‘Mannequin’ is derived from the Dutch “Mannekijn”, which literally means “little man”. It is a life-size, articulated doll, especially used to demonstrate arrangement of drapery. The history ...

Why do I ask if India can afford to miss the bus again? Because whether we like it or not, whether...
Posted by
Rahul Mehta
Effective quality management starts with a quality policy. Effectiveness is the extent to which...
Posted by
Pradip Mehta
Is your business ready for Textiles 4.0? Before you can say, 'Yes', 'No', 'May be' or 'I don't...
Posted by
Aseem Prakash
Imagine a cricketer, once an exciting player but now aged 45, having put on oodles of weight, too...
Posted by
Rahul Mehta
Luxury is a lifestyle, and fashion is just a minuscule part of it. Businesswise-the most visible or ...
Posted by
Abhay Gupta
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey concluded that a majority of US companies are having...
Posted by
Bill D’Arienzo
The focus in research and development (R&D) is now more and more set on new sustainable products...
Posted by
Fanny Vermandel
A few years later, the same process is now taking place in textile printing, and this has never...
Posted by
Gabi Seligsohn
It was not very long ago that people who shopped online in India were considered 'ahead of time'....
Posted by
Arun Sirdeshmukh
Indians are too enamoured of Hollywood. We can’t help it. We have been conditioned this way. The...
Posted by
Anurag Batra