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To Excel At Customer Obsession, You Need An Adaptive Operating Model

Forrester eCommerce

Rather than undertake a full organizational design exercise, firms are adopting tactical change, creating agile delivery […]. Many firms have used Forrester’s principles of customer obsession to guide their business and IT transformation journey, striving to be customer-led, insights-driven, fast, and connected.

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Dollar General Invests in AI as it Doubles Down on Fresh Food Commitment  

Retail TouchPoints

“This collaboration is a strategic step toward improving our operational efficiency while serving our customers with improved in-stock levels of fresh produce.” “This collaboration is a strategic step toward improving our operational efficiency while serving our customers with improved in-stock levels of fresh produce.”

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L’Oréal Buys Australian Beauty Brand A?sop

Retail TouchPoints

Aēsop operates approximately 400 points of sale across the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia, with a recent advance into China, where the brand opened its first store in 2022. We will also be able to concentrate on continuing to improve The Body Shop’s business and refocusing Avon International’s footprint.”

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Peloton Shifts to Third-Party Manufacturing in Effort to Simplify Supply Chain

Retail TouchPoints

Peloton is taking steps to curtail its costs and create a more efficient supply chain by ending all of its owned manufacturing operations. The New York-headquartered connected fitness company is also suspending operations at exercise gear company Tonic Fitness Technology, which it acquired in October 2019. “We

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Threat Hunting 101: A Human Led Exercise

Forrester eCommerce

Threat hunting is a term frequently misused by cybersecurity pros, vendors, and service providers. We researched threat hunting to determine what it really is, what benefits it brings, and to overcome the misuse and abuse of the term. The resulting report, Threat Hunting 101, published recently.

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Reflections On 2020: Cloud Predictions Versus Reality

Forrester eCommerce

This is an exercise we do every year to hold us — the prediction-makers — accountable to our predictions. This week, we published scores for our 2020 cloud predictions. We assess if our predictions came to pass and explicitly call out if we were vague, too aggressive, or just simply wrong. Although we pride ourselves […].

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Kohl’s Rejects Acquisition Offers, Creates Plan to Protect Against Hostile Takeovers

Retail TouchPoints

2021, when Kohl’s combined operation was valued at about $7.3 At that point, existing shareholders will have the option purchase additional shares of the company’s common stock at a 50% discount from the then-current exercise price. Engine Capital stated that the online assets alone could be “conservatively valued at $12.4