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Manufacturing-led Growth Defies Global Trends
In November, our Big Conversation moved on to Istanbul. An audience of business and technology leaders from some of the region’s highest profile organisations gathered to hear perspectives on our Big 4...
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From “Great Promise” to “Great Uncertainty” – How global factors are adding...
It’s the season for predictions. Last year, at our Singapore Business and Technology Leaders Summit, Anu Madgavkar, Senior Fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, shared deep insight into what lies...
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While pressures on global resources become ever more acute, human ingenuity...
Finite planet. An End to Limitless Resources. At the recent BT Global Services Istanbul CXO Summit, our Big Conversation turned to the question of how we do a lot more with what looks like an...
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Connecting the ‘new workplace’
The Power of the Individual. Instant globalisation. Connectivity. Zettabytes. And making “Working Your Way” a reality. Wagdy Samir, MD Smart Solutions, Cisco, examined the implications of the “new...
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Supplying expanding demand with shrinking resources.
The End to Limitless Resources has been acknowledged for some time. Now, business must rise to the challenge of growth without fatal depletion of scarce or non-renewable materials. As our recent...
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Delivering the Retail Supply Chain of the Future
By Emer Timmons, President, BT Global Services Almost a year ago, we launched Retailtopia, an initiative created by BT to help forge a positive future for the retail industry. With Retailtopia, we...
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Big Ideas from the Big Apple
It’s a tough time for traditional retailers – as the number of prominent casualties on the UK high street in recent weeks testifies. However, the National Retail Federation show in New York last week...
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Retailtopia — a vision for British retail in 2020
Tough times often trigger innovation, and retail represents a fertile opportunity for boldness and dynamism. Last year, with a mission to create a positive future for omni-channel shopping, we launched...
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Supply chain management in an unbalanced world with limited resources
Bas Burger, President Global Commerce at BT Global Services, recently spoke at BT’s Big Conversation summit in Hong Kong about the future of supply chain management and the end of limitless resources....
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The End of Retail as We Know it?
There’s no doubt, 2012 was a tough year for the high street and judging by the number of retailer casualties so far, 2013 might not be much better. Fifty-four major retailers failed during 2012, making...
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The Two Unlikely Keys to Omni-channel Success
It’s nice to share Collaboration in retail supply chains, both the sharing of infrastructure, like shared trucks and warehouses, or the sharing of data, would give great benefits to retailers and their...
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Building a coalition of the willing to tackle the world’s major challenges
Political commitment to tackling the world’s sustainability challenges is hard to come by. But perhaps we’re barking up the wrong tree by approaching government, and should turn our attention...
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Delivering Net Good
Does anyone else remember the excitement of waiting for their first film to come back from the developers? I do. I was a serious photographer in my teens and nothing compares with the anticipation of...
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Would You Like to Attend the Net Good Launch Event ?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a short post that you can see here about my excitement waiting for the first set of outturns from our Net Good analysis. It is still a week or two too early to tell you...
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Exciting Technology and the Future of Retail
By: Ralph Hengstenberg, Marketing Director UK Markets, BT Global Services These are exciting times for retailers. Technology is changing the way consumers live their lives, and in the same breath is...
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Building strong connections to 4 billion consumers
By: James Layard, Business Development Director, CPG and Retail Industry sectors, AMEA With over sixteen million retail outlets reaching four billion consumers, it’s no wonder the consumer packed goods...
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Beating the queues with mobile devices
By: Ralph Hengstenberg, Marketing Director UK Markets, BT Global Services Apparently you spend approximately six months of your life queuing for something. I say apparently, because there is no...
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Can retailers offer shoppers a more interactive experience?
By: Ralph Hengstenberg, Marketing Director UK Markets, BT Global Services Fashions change fast. What was once innovative, suddenly becomes adopted by the mainstream and is seen and expected everywhere...
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Bringing retailers the exciting m-commerce opportunity
By Andrea Foord, Head of Marketing , Retail & Supply Chain, BT Global Services I like using my phone when I’m out and about. Whether I’m travelling on a train, meeting friends for coffee, or in a...
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The changing face of UK retail
By James Melhuish, Converged Infrastructure Practice, BT iNet. The retail high street continues to morph at an ever changing rate, modern retailers finding themselves under increasing pressure to...
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