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All Companies Are Digital Companies – Some Just Don’t Know It
Excerpt from "The Product Mindset: Succeed in the Digital Economy by Changing the Way Your Organization Thinks", by David DeWolf and Jessica Hall.
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How to Keep Employees Engaged During a Growth Period
AVEC Keynote Speaker Mark Levy Shares 3 Critical Connections to Maintain During Expansion
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Four Questions for Business Owners Before/After Market Volatility
2019 mid-year outlook from Chad Lyon, President of Electronics & Appliances Group, Wells Fargo CDF
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Retailers are Opening Their Doors to Paying with Crypto: Is Anyone Buying?
“Government regulations are the primary blocker in wider acceptance of crypto for payments.”
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The Importance Of Mentoring
Mentoring programs can be very formal, very informal, last for years or be short in duration - the possibilities are endless.
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Insight: Facing the Future
Harnessing the Power of Facial Detection and Facial Recognition in Pro AV
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Google Nest Rebrand Kick-Starts The Next Chapter Of A Smart-Home Evolution
Google Home and related devices have a 24% market share as of January 2019
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A Hall Of Fame List of Mentors
Editor’s Note: Steve wrote this prior to the induction dinner last night. A few weeks ago I received a phone call and emails from...
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Retail: More Than Just Transactions
When asked by industry friends how I am spending my “semi-retirement” as I like to call it, aside from my continued work with TWICE,...
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Millennials May Be Saving Thanksgiving
Even though the World Series has not yet begun, retailers are as prepared as ever for the holiday selling season. I have been reading,...
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CES: ‘Nobody Goes There Anymore; It’s Too Crowded’
At the end of June, just about six months after CES 2016, Vault Consulting reporting that the show hit a new attendance record: 177,393....
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In Appliances, Sears’ Pain Is Independents’ Gain
Even though electronics/appliance retailing is an industry where change is rapid, there are always some that won’t believe it and say something like, “There...
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What Comes After Amazon In CE Retailing?
The TWICE Top 100 CE Retailers Report, based on 2015 calendar year sales, is available today, and while the list is not surprising –...
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Top 100 Shows Continued Innovation
In the years I’ve worked at TWICE, the most difficult and contentious report this publication compiles and presents each year is the Top 100...
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Masters Cellphone Ban Is Over the Top
Visiting Augusta National Golf Club during Masters Week, which I mentioned in my last blog, is like going back in time. The venue and...
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White Goods Get a Black Eye From ‘Friday’ Sales
I was on a road trip last week, crossing off a bucket list item with three friends visiting the Augusta National Golf Club during...
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Sony Gets Emotional For Profitability
A CEO lauding the love of his brand, discussing the responsibilities of how products “reach … and enrich everyone’s lives,” and speaking to how...
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Engineers Feeling The Love At CES 2016
As a member of the media, no matter how many times I have attended and covered CES, there are always more than a few...
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Has Black Friday ‘Jumped The Shark’?
When did Black Friday cease being the official Opening Day of holiday discounts and shopping? Was it in 2013 when the trend to open...
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How iPad Takes Me Out To The Ballgame
For this New York baseball fan there is nothing quite like both the Yankees and the Mets in pennant races during September. What I...
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Best Buy Taking ‘Departments’ To Another Level
News earlier this month that Best Buy will be partnering with Macy’s and operating shops in the department store’s locations is appropriate since the...
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Retail Lessons From Harrods
My wife and I just returned from our first visit to London, to attend a college graduation and sightsee, and we made it over...
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An 84-Inch TV Review … From 1975
In a recent effort to get rid of clutter, files and whatever around our home — and when you live someplace for 30 years...
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2nd Half Upbeat As Consumers, Trade Embrace New Tech
As we look back at the last six months and turn to toward the second half, there are plenty of hopeful signs for the...
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Changing Role Of Buying Groups Takes Another Turn
When I started to write about how buying groups have changed I realized it is thirty years this spring since I attended my first...
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RadioShack’s Complicated Legacy
News of RadioShack filing for Chapter 11 is not a shock to many industry veterans and observers — and consumers — who began predicting...
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My Top 10 Memories of CES ’15
The 2015 International CES was memorable to me since it was the first time in 25 years I was a contributor and not the...
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CES Exhibitors Speed-Date Media With Quick Intros
The annual speed-dating rite for tech companies began early Monday mornng with companies previewing their International CES offerings in every hour on the hour,...
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Go ‘Outside The Lines’ At CES
If you’re reading this here at International CES and you are a retailer, manufacturer or distributor you probably have too many meetings on your...
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‘Wrestling Alligators’ & Other Jack Wayman Stories
It took eight speakers, and two impromptu comments from the audience, to talk about Jack Wayman during the Consumer Electronics Association’s heartfelt and moving...
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‘Keep The Faith!’ – Memories Of Jack Wayman
On Labor Day afternoon, I received the sad news from Gary Shapiro and Jeff Joseph of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) that Jack Wayman,...
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Independents Back Best Buy’s Ultra HD Effort
Whenever top CE brands get together with a national retailer to, basically, jumpstart a vital new technology for the industry, you should expect howls...