{"id":14618,"date":"2019-04-02T10:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:46:24","slug":"tech-in-retail-by-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=14618","title":{"rendered":"Tech in retail by IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ember5581\" class=\"feed-shared-update-v2__description feed-shared-inline-show-more-text feed-shared-inline-show-more-text--expanded ember-view\">\n<div id=\"ember5582\" class=\"feed-shared-update-v2__commentary feed-shared-text ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"ember5583\" class=\"feed-shared-text__text-view feed-shared-text-view white-space-pre-wrap break-words ember-view\"><span aria-hidden=\"false\"><span id=\"ember5586\" class=\"ember-view\">A good pragmatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/think\/uk-en\/industries\/retail\/taking-the-e-out-of-e-commerce\">article<\/a> on Tech in retail &#8211; I agree from the several retail turnarounds we have led, its back to basics, with technology as an enabler NOT a panacea aligned with a bricks and clicks strategy. Business is about profit and relationships, TECH often undermines both and leaving differentiation being price &#8211; destroying markets and brands. Growth is the other flawed panacea that needs addressing the antitheses of sustainability, which will screw us all over the next 10 years&#8230;. Time for <\/span><a id=\"ember5590\" class=\"feed-shared-text-view__hyperlink ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winningthinking.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.winningthinking.uk<\/a><span id=\"ember5594\" class=\"ember-view\"> because without it you wont be aware of or overcome the tech growth and other mantras that unchecked are damaging businesses and even our existence? Cheers T <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"ember5582\" class=\"feed-shared-update-v2__commentary feed-shared-text ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"feed-shared-text__text-view feed-shared-text-view white-space-pre-wrap break-words ember-view\"><span aria-hidden=\"false\"><span id=\"ember5594\" class=\"ember-view\"><a id=\"ember5597\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=%23sustainability\" target=\"_self\" data-control-name=\"update_hashtag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"ember5598\" class=\"hashtag-a11y ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span><span class=\"hashtag-a11y__name\">sustainability<\/span><\/span><\/a><a id=\"ember5601\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=%23retail\" target=\"_self\" data-control-name=\"update_hashtag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"ember5602\" class=\"hashtag-a11y ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span><span class=\"hashtag-a11y__name\">retail<\/span><\/span><\/a><a id=\"ember5605\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=%23leadership\" target=\"_self\" data-control-name=\"update_hashtag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"ember5606\" class=\"hashtag-a11y ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span><span class=\"hashtag-a11y__name\">leadership<\/span><\/span><\/a><a id=\"ember5609\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=%23socialmedia\" target=\"_self\" data-control-name=\"update_hashtag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"ember5610\" class=\"hashtag-a11y ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span><span class=\"hashtag-a11y__name\">socialmedia<\/span><\/span><\/a><a id=\"ember5613\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=%23purpose\" target=\"_self\" data-control-name=\"update_hashtag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"ember5614\" class=\"hashtag-a11y ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span><span class=\"hashtag-a11y__name\">purpose<\/span><\/span><\/a><a id=\"ember5617\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=%23culture\" target=\"_self\" data-control-name=\"update_hashtag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"ember5618\" class=\"hashtag-a11y ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span><span class=\"hashtag-a11y__name\">culture<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ember5619\" class=\"Elevation-0dp feed-shared-update-v2__update-content-wrapper feed-shared-mini-update-v2 feed-shared-mini-update-v2--with-context feed-shared-mini-update-v2--minimal-padding ember-view\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"ember5620\" class=\"feed-shared-actor display-flex ember-view\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good pragmatic article on Tech in retail &#8211; I  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}