Retailers: Are Your Customers Shopping Around? There can be few industries where the need to understand, respond to, and even anticipate consumer behavior is more important than retail. And consumer behavior is changing in unprecedented ways, during the global pandemic. In a new paper I have written for Mythos Group I consider the importance ofRead more
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Post-COVID-19, The Need For Supply Chain Resiliency In Retail The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced many things that we already know to be true, but perhaps previously underplayed, including the fact that any business is only as robust as its supply chain. This is certainly true of retail, which relies on multiple partners in different partsRead more
It’s Now Or Never For The Digital Transformation Of Retail The retail sector has been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many famous brands closing their doors for good. But the truth is, retail was undergoing a long and sometimes painful transformation long before the pandemic hit. The paper I have written forRead more
Must Retailers Restructure To Survive? While almost every industry has been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there are few where the impact has been more obvious than retail. Famous retail brands have gone under, as they were forced to shutter their stores, accelerating a trend that was already in train long before the pandemic;Read more
Keeping Retail Staff And Customers Safe In The COVID-19 Era COVID-19 has caused substantial economic chaos, mandating significant changes to many industry sectors, and retail in particular. From iconic department stores to entertainment giants, COVID-19 has seemingly spared no one in its devastation. Mythos Group has been re-imagining what retail might look like, post-pandemic, andRead more
Post-COVID-19, Creating A New Normal In The Workplace, Some days it’s hard to imagine, but one day this will all be over. A vaccine, or vaccines, will have been developed and distributed, the deaths and illnesses will have ceased, and we will be able to work and socialize again. But not in the same way.Read more
Who’s In, Who’s Out? The Responsible Guide To Bringing Staff Back To Work Organizations are faced with the tremendous challenge of ramping up to full productivity, post-COVID-19. And in almost all cases, that will look different from how it did before the pandemic. In the paper I have written for Mythos Group, I examine fourRead more
Post-COVID-19, Reimagining How Work Is Done The unprecedented economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting an estimated four out of five of the world’s workforce of 3.2 billion people, and for many of those, work may never be the same again. Countries across the world are making their way towards relaxing COVID-19 lockdowns,Read more
As governments, businesses, public health officials, and other organizations wrestle with what the workplace should look like in and beyond the COVID-19 era, there is a lot of speculation and conjecture about just what this ‘new normal’ will be. But there is little doubt that a new normal will emerge, rather than a return toRead more
In A World Transformed By COVID-19, Digital Transformation Is More Important Than Ever Until recently, globalization was heralded as the major engine of global economic growth, and central to globalization has been the expansion of global value chains (or GVCs). However, the COVID-19 crisis has fundamentally challenged the logic of globalization. It has brutally exposedRead more