Omnichannel NOW Newsletter Archive

 

• Macy’s using aggressive adoption of omnichannel to battle Amazon
• Walmart CEO Doug McMillon gets, preaches omnichannel religion
• Western Union SVP Khalid Fellahi talks omnichannel strategy and expansion in Europe
• Apple finally gets content to commerce bridging
• Neiman Marcus highlights digital efforts and organizational changes to support digital in its IPO filing
• J.C. Penney shows improved financial results and CEO Marvin Ellison commits to increased tech spending to boost omnichannel and ecommerce initiatives
• New York Times report on white collar work conditions at Amazon generates an explosion of public debate on Amazon culture and on modern worklife

• General Electric launches IoT analytics as a cloud service for healthcare, energy and transportation industries for internal and third party us
  

• Google’s Rising star Pichai is officially in charge as new CEO
• Mike Bracken joins Co-operative Group as Chief Digital Officer
• JCPenney stocks up on ‘Omnichannel’ execs from other retail chains
• Former Walmart Exec Hired As CMO Of 99 Cents Only
• Target taps a new CFO as Cornell continues to shape executive team
• Moxie names Reardon CEO, Deering become eBay CMO

• Macy’s looking to hire Director, Digital Media
• Best Buy is looking for Director, E-Commerce Category Management, Strategy & Growth
• Demandware is looking to hire Vice President, Corporate Marketing
• Acquia is looking for Chief Marketing Officer( CMO )
• Walmart eCommerce is looking to hire Senior Director Online Marketing
  
• MetLife is looking for Director, Digital Marketing, eComm/mComm
• Gap Inc. is looking to hire Vice President, Global Reach Digital Marketing
  
• Starbucks is looking to hire Director, In-Store Retail Digital Innovation

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• Starbucks CEO says digital efforts are “paramount” and credits Chief Digital Officer Adam Brotman for becoming “as relevant to our customers on the phone as inside the Starbucks”
• Arrow Electronics Chief Digital Officer Matt Anderson talks about building knowledge capital through acquisitions and how to free yourself from corporate budget cycles for digital investments
• Public sector digital transformation - Government of Australia Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull calls for the government’s “wider use of digital platforms” that a study claims can brings benefits valued at AU$20.5B
• Can retailers “out-Amazon Amazon”? Macy’s expands same-day delivery while Satish Jindel, logistics expert, questions its value
  
• Gavin Michael, head of digital at Chase follows up its #1 ranked mobile app with upgrade of its chase.com site used by 37 million customers. Mark Schwanhausser of Javelin strategy weighs in on “putting the person back in personal finance”

• Amid rumors of tepid sales, Apple expands Watch distribution through Best Buy, the No. 1 seller of Apple products and Apple’s historic frenemy
• Ovum releases a report on digital marketing platforms comparing Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce and others. Analyst says Adobe still executing well but Oracle exploiting Adobe’s lack of eCommerce
• Forbes contributor says Microsoft is proving the market for a laptop/tablet hybrid with Surface while USA Today reports Microsoft (mostly) nails Windows 10 upgrade
  

• Toys “R” Us exec moves to Barnes & Noble as its Chief Digital Officer amidst challenging times and breakup of company
• Ex-HP and VMware executive Paul Chapman joins Box as CIO and gives himself a long list of sky-high objectives
• Former Oracle Cloud exec Abhay Parasnis resurfaces as Adobe CTO for Cloud Services and hints at potential competition with Box, Dropbox
• Cisco brings in Kevin Bandy as its Chief Digital Officer and makes him responsible (according to his LinkedIn page) to “grow cloud, software and affiliated services”

• Just when you thought digital is all retail! Honeywell takes digital and IoT to manufacturing and mobile apps to plant workers
• Remember last newsletter story about consumers getting some digital banking done while on a date? No wonder banks now “increasingly focus [retail banking] budgets on digital transformation”
• Fascinating use cases as transportation evolves into a digital business. IoT on steroids. Modernizing a quarter-million-mile rail track with remote monitoring, mobile apps to troubleshoot wifi-enabled rail grinders, maintaining high yield of expensive fracking machinery in oil & gas industry, “digital trucking” and smart loading docks
• Bed Bath & Beyond CEO Steven Temares says omnichannel strategy is working. Sales through mobile apps and website grew 35% YoY
• Dr. Mark Boxer, CIO at Cigna Healthcare talks about use of technology to provide “quality, affordability and patient experience” for the digitally savvy consumer
• JC Penney CEO to be Marvin Ellison wants to “make more technological strides” such as mobile app with visual product search enabled. Relatedly, see Photon’s solution for this capability
• Je m’appelle Jean-Paul Agon! L’Oreal CEO explains why “digital and beauty are the perfect match.
• CEO Brian Cornell and Chief Innovation Officer Casey Carl of Target adopting venture capital industry techniques (Entrepreneurs in Residence) in search of next billion dollar business that has a “defensible business model”
  
• Opinion piece: Similarities exist between digital challenges facing banks today and what retailers faced years earlier. What can banks learn from retailers?
  

• eBay Enterprise about to be sold for $900M to private equity firm? Less than half what eBay paid to acquire
• Oracle benefits from Toys ‘R’ Us decision to bring e-commerce in-house
  
• Microsoft exits ad business to focus on search but gets to power all AOL properties for search. Could AOL parent Verizon’s Android smartphones be next? Watch out Google!

• Walgreens Boots Alliance has named Stefano Pessina CEO
• Pepsico expands Hugh Johnston’s role to Vice Chairman to address needs of digital consumer
• Mukul Deoras, appointed as the chief marketing officer of Colgate-Palmolive

• What do you do on a date? Barry Sommers, CEO of Chase Consumer Banking - you do some hiking, catch a movie, some good eats and yes, do some digital banking. Infographic here.
• Telemedicine innovator MDLIVE and CEO Randy Parker close $50M funding to expand acquisitions and consumer reach ……
• ......even as MDLIVE partner Walgreens and VP of Digital Health at Walgreens, Adam Pellegrini, announce expansion of the service to three more states
• JC Penney CEO-designee Marvin Ellison discusses comeback plan using second-mover power and omnichannel
• General Electric takes Internet of Things forward in appliances with IFTTT partnership. We are predicting a GE Pavlov’s Fridge next to keep you from hitting the pizza before you hit the gym
• You’ve got to trust us on this one! It’s a coincidence that Target.com President Jason Goldberger said Amazon.com is beatable leveraging omnichannel around the time Photon CEO blogged the same position
• Walmart CEO Doug McMillon expounds on importance of omnichannel, plans to invest heavily in e-commerce and hints at overhaul of and/or new associate-facing apps
• Instructive discussion with Chandra Dhandapani, SVP, CIO and Digital Transformation Leader at Capital One Financial. Interestingly “changing the way we work” is the first of her three priorities
• Adobe CIO Gerri Flickinger gives her perspective on roles of CIO, CMO and CDO

• Apple Pay increases appeal to retailers with ability to accept store-branded cards.
• Panasonic and Thinaire collaborate to produce more more intelligent out-of-home ad units.
• Mr. Ellison is at it again. Oracle “going to WAR” against AWS cloud prices. Hype or click bait? You decide.
• Will Apple replace iPhone home button with Apple Watch like approach, Glances and Force Touch?

• Samsung names new marketing, creative chiefs for its US ops
• McDonald's appoints Silvia Lagnado Global Chief Marketing Officer
• Alissa Montbriand appointed VP of Global Integrated Marketing Communications at Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group
• American Apparel names Brian McHale as CIO and says Brian will collaborate with CDO Thory Stephens to” develop and expand digital capabilities”
• COO / CFO moves: Donald Grimes goes to Neiman Marcus as COO and CFO
  
• CVS Health announces ex-Digitas exec as CMO

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Photon Partners with Slyce

Photon, the world's largest and fastest growing provider of omni-channel and digital experiences and Slyce Inc, the leading provider of mobile visual product search technology, announced the signing of a partnership agreement. The agreement will see Slyce become Photon's provider of mobile visual product search technology and teams from the two companies will closely collaborate on joint solutions concerning the creation of innovative mobile experiences for major retailers, involving visual product search.

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• EVP of omnichannel at JCPenney discusses how they leverage visual search to bolster mobile commerce, manage tighter retail space
• JCPenney Gets Traffic Back to 2011 Levels, leverages “second mover” advantage 
• Target rewrites it’s omni-channel strategy - successes and hiccups reviewed.
• Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s to Offer Uber-Like Tailoring Service for Web Orders.
• Target and More Team Up With Shazam For Instantly Shoppable Ads.
• Visa Inc and Verifone join forces to accelerate Omnichannel globally.

• Adobe will become more of a marketplace with its Fotolia service
• Watch WWDC Apple announcements to expect: Apple TV, Macs, Beats Music, iOS 9, OS X 10.11
• Oracle Marketing Cloud adds New Omnichannel Mobile Capabilities
• Microsoft 10 is coming! Review of capabilities, Microsoft’s challenges

• 27 Executives Win 2015 Retail Innovator Awards
• Men's Warehouse names New Chief Digital Officer.
  
• Former Target and JCPenney President Michael Francis joins Xcel board of directors
• Kwittken hires Adam L. Snyder as Chief Digital Officer

• Future Stores Conference - June 23 - 25, 2015 - See Event
• ICX (Interactive Customer Experience) Summit Chicago June 28-30 - See Event
• Omnichannel Shopper IIR Chicago, IL July 20-22, 2015 -See Event

• Cigna Health looking for Global Head of Digital Marketing
• Director of Strategy & Innovation at CVS Health 
• Estee Lauder Companies Online is actively looking for a Director, Omnichannel
• Global Digital Product Director at McDonald’s 
• Mattel Inc. looking for Director, Digital Brand Marketing

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