Martin Butler, Vice President, Retail Industry Leader, IBM UK shares the latest trends with today's digital customers at the IBM Driving the Best in Retail Innovation event - 23rd Sept 2014, The Lowry, Manchester
4. Our research has evolved from understanding the presence of technology
in shopping to its importance in choosing a retailer.
2010
Meeting the Demands of
the Smarter Consumer
‘Use of technology’
2011
Capitalising on the
Smarter Consumer
‘Personalisation’
2012
Winning Over the
Empowered Consumer
‘Trust’
2013
From Transactions to
Relationships
‘Transactions by channel’
2014
Greater Expectations
‘Expectations’
5.
6. Going deeper, the data outlined four classes of consumers
differentiated by their Omnichannel maturity
Importance of key Omnichannel capabilities
1199%%
4400%%
2299%%
1122%%
Traditional
Transitioning
Tech-intrigued
Trailblazers
Comfort with shopping in multiple channel
7. IBM has analyzed 170 retailers in 12 Western European countries with
more than 12,000 data points
Data structure/ Data Sample/ Goals Criteria Categories
12,000 datapoints analyzed
75 evaluation criteria in 13
segments
Evaluation of the omnichannel
maturity of retailers in
different segments
Criteria analyzed
Customer list
Criteria fulfillment
- Focus on retailers that operate in both worlds:
online and offline retailing
- All criteria were evaluated from a customer perspective: The team did
real purchases in order to evaluate all criteria
- Segments: Fashion & shoes, department stores, grocery, electronics,
DIY, drugstores, furniture, sporting goods, specialty retailer, general
goods, telco, toys
Criteria Categories
8.
9. There is a correlation between online share and OmCI Score, both on segment and country level
Country Online Share vs. OMCI Score
15%
55%
Ireland France
Sweden
Germany
Italy
UK
Countries with a high proportion of online sales
achieve a higher average OMCI Score
Segment Online Share vs. OMCI Score
High
Electronics
Share
Fashion &
Shoes
Online DIY
Drug Store
Furniture
Low
Low High Avg. OMCI Segment Score
Source: Gartner Online Share vs IBM OMCI Survey
Grocery
High
Low
Low High
Online Share
10. The Top 10 Omnichannel retailers in Western Europe
80,0%
France
80%
73,9%
73,9%
UK
UK
6 6
82,2%
Germany
11. Sporting Goods, France 68,3%
12. Electronics, Sweden 67,4%
13. Department Store, UK, 67,0%
14. Fashion & Shoes, Spain 66,5%
15. Electronics, Germany, 66,1%
16. General Goods, UK, 66,1%
17. DIY, UK, 65,2%
18. Electronics, Germany, 64,3%
19. Fashion and Shoes, UK, 64,3%
20. Fashion & Shoes, Spain 63,5%
70%
75,7%
France
75%
80%
70,9%
Spain
70,9%
Spain
73,9%
73,9%
UK
UK
5 5
78,3%
78,3%
UK
UK
3 3
75,7%
France
4 4
70,0%
France
70,0%
France
9 9
(Verkkokauppa) 68,7%
(Verkkokauppa) 68,7%
Finland
Finland
82,2%
Germany
1 1
1010
7 7
70,4%
70,4%
UK
UK
8 8
80,0%
France
2 2
11. Recommendations from the 2014 Survey
Build a 360 degree picture of your customer
Converge the physical and digital experience
Define your “FUTURE BRAND”
Innovate and transform
Editor's Notes
Martin’s notes:The IBM Institute of Business Value has been conducting large scale consumer research for a number of years. Five years ago, we focused on the use of technology in general. But by 2014, with technology being as omnipresent as it is, we decided to focus on understanding consumers’ asks of retailers in an omnichannel world.
Martin’s Notes:
We see plotted out four consumer classifications that were identified by examining shoppers’ attitudes and behaviors about omnichannel shopping and the use of technology. In the upper-right, we have the trailblazers. This group we will follow in the analysis because they are making retail decisions today based on the presence of absence of key capabilities. We also will follow this group because we believe the majority of shoppers will follow the path of adopting the technologies the trailblazers have adopted and asking for the same things as trailblazers need today.
When we look at the four groups, we can see that three groups cluster together in the upper right quadrant. One group, the traditional, lags behind in omnichannel shopping and the use of technology. It’s important to note that the voice of this traditional shopper is a comfortable voice to retailers and pulls other shopper groups towards the mean of less involvement with technology. But even traditional shoppers have omnichannel requirements. So everyone is an omnichannel shopper. And all the groups need to be looked at.