1) The study examines current mobile shopping activities and the future outlook for mobile as a shopping channel using Nielsen data across 12 categories.
2) More than 60% of 169 million mobile internet users in the US have never seen mobile ads but are interested in mobile shopping. This represents huge potential for advertisers.
3) Nine in ten mobile users have used their device in-store, representing opportunities for real-time ads and branding to influence purchases.
As online technology and services develop, mobile online technology and services of the same kind are sure to follow. This is true of mobile commerce. E-commerce has grown significantly over the past 10 years; and today, mobile commerce not only offers shoppers the same browser-based purchasing services via mobile, but in fact, allows more seamless crossing of channels from digital shopping to in-store shopping.
Here is our latest white paper, Passport To Purchase: M-Commerce, and read more abut the mobile evolution and its implications on CPGs, cross-channel approaches, target demographics, purchase behaviors, and more.
A profile of the multi-channel shopper reveals a largely untapped opportunity for stores to engage today’s customers by living up to their high expectations for a seamless brand experience. Shoppers want the shopping experience to be connected and personal—a reflection of how they live and use digital. A supplement to Interbrand Design Forum's 2010 State of the Industry Report.
The mobile age has arrived and is here to stay. Worldwide shipments of mobile devices in 2012 is expected to be 56% higher than that of 2009. Mobile advertising spending is expected to increase to US$12.8 billion in 2011 (compared with US$1.7 billion in 2007) — an increase of 758%.
Read on to know more details and trends...
Making Money with Mobile (2012 MFSA Annual Conference)interlinkONE
John Foley, Jr., the CEO of interlinkONE and Grow Socially, delivered this presentation at the 2012 MFSA Annual Conference in Asheville.
During his one-hour session, John will explained how mobile technology is changing the way that people communicate and consume information.
He shared the latest statistics on how devices such as smartphones and tablets are having a dramatic effect on everything from marketing, to sales, to customer support, to fulfillment, and more.
Best of all, John demonstrated how there are plenty of opportunities for mail and fulfillment services providers to grow their business by incorporating mobile technology. During his presentation, John will share actionable solutions, case studies, and provide plenty of inspiration.
Some of the technologies that John discussed include:
- QR Codes
- Augmented Reality
- Near Field Communication (NFC)
- Mobile Payments
- And more!
Attendees also had the chance to provide real-time feedback during the session via their smartphones and tablets!
As online technology and services develop, mobile online technology and services of the same kind are sure to follow. This is true of mobile commerce. E-commerce has grown significantly over the past 10 years; and today, mobile commerce not only offers shoppers the same browser-based purchasing services via mobile, but in fact, allows more seamless crossing of channels from digital shopping to in-store shopping.
Here is our latest white paper, Passport To Purchase: M-Commerce, and read more abut the mobile evolution and its implications on CPGs, cross-channel approaches, target demographics, purchase behaviors, and more.
A profile of the multi-channel shopper reveals a largely untapped opportunity for stores to engage today’s customers by living up to their high expectations for a seamless brand experience. Shoppers want the shopping experience to be connected and personal—a reflection of how they live and use digital. A supplement to Interbrand Design Forum's 2010 State of the Industry Report.
The mobile age has arrived and is here to stay. Worldwide shipments of mobile devices in 2012 is expected to be 56% higher than that of 2009. Mobile advertising spending is expected to increase to US$12.8 billion in 2011 (compared with US$1.7 billion in 2007) — an increase of 758%.
Read on to know more details and trends...
Making Money with Mobile (2012 MFSA Annual Conference)interlinkONE
John Foley, Jr., the CEO of interlinkONE and Grow Socially, delivered this presentation at the 2012 MFSA Annual Conference in Asheville.
During his one-hour session, John will explained how mobile technology is changing the way that people communicate and consume information.
He shared the latest statistics on how devices such as smartphones and tablets are having a dramatic effect on everything from marketing, to sales, to customer support, to fulfillment, and more.
Best of all, John demonstrated how there are plenty of opportunities for mail and fulfillment services providers to grow their business by incorporating mobile technology. During his presentation, John will share actionable solutions, case studies, and provide plenty of inspiration.
Some of the technologies that John discussed include:
- QR Codes
- Augmented Reality
- Near Field Communication (NFC)
- Mobile Payments
- And more!
Attendees also had the chance to provide real-time feedback during the session via their smartphones and tablets!
This is Interbrand Design Forum's 5th annual State of the Retail Industry report, which is produced in conjunction with Chain Store Age magazine. Entitled "Think Forward: In a Race with Change" the report discussed how Retail is being hit with a wave
of game-changing technology in the form of more than 9 million smartphones. As the act of shopping undergoes sweeping transformation, we will experience more change in the next five years than
we have in the past forty.
With an impressive 70% viewing mobile ads as a personal invitation from brands rather than an invasion, it opens up new opportunities for brand advertisers to engage with their consumers.
The Social Shopper: A Lens into the future of Retail ExperiencesDelvinia
The Internet and social media have created a landscape where consumers are a more significant force than ever before. And, digitally-savvy shoppers are leading the way. Our study around consumer use of digital technology — conducted through AskingCanadians™ — reveals that digital experiences are not only a key component in the purchase process; but digitally-inclined shoppers are fast becoming the consumers of the future.
Consumers are becoming increasingly dependent on mobile technology. Consumers not only own more mobile devices, but they also use them more often for an increasing number of tasks.
Marketers are searching for ways to grasp opportunities stemming from the extraordinary mobile penetration and usage patterns. Mobile devices provide easier ways for marketers to provide added-values to the consumer and shopper, making their lives easier.
The following presentation discusses several trends and enablers, mainly:Emerging Devices & Technologies, Consumer added values from mobile,Mobile Marketing Best Practices such as apps, gaming, content, commerce etc.
Berkshire Digital - The Future of Ecommerce: 2013 and beyondBerkshire Digital
James Gurd of Digital Juggler presented to Berkshire Digital on 17th January on the Future of Ecommerce. Sponsored by Cranberry Panda, the event was a great success. The accompanying podcast can be downloaded by visiting www.berkshiredigital.org
Retail Mobility: Welcoming the consumer on mobile[x]cube LABS
Our Whitepaper focuses on retail mobile solutions and endeavors to decipher the reasons behind retailers taking the mobile plunge, the seismic shift in the consumer behavior, the growth engines behind retail mobility,
opportunities, challenges and advantages for various stakeholders and a look into the days ahead.
The global market for self service is experiencing growth, and research companies predict it will keep growing in the next few years. The main reason for growth is that self service can benefit both customers and companies.
Companies that deliver online self service are able to minimize costs (as long as service is provided efficiently) and benefit from increased customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, lifetime value and advocacy.
in terms of customer satisfaction, there is a clear preference for digital and multi-channel service. However, poor self service can cause the customer to abandon the channel. For organizations, self- service saves costs as long as the service is provided correctly and the information is synchronized between the different channels. Today, customer satisfaction is still very high when a live representative is involved, but our assessment is that in the near future, the picture may change following the entry of innovative tools that enhance the service experience significantly. We expect robots (or “bots”) to become the next preferred channel for self service, with the accumulation of data, which enables a better automatic service than ever before.
Mobile technology adoption continues to grow, and recent consumer trends include rise in wearable tech and VR / AR, as well as growing use of chatting apps, mobile commerce, and consumption of mobile video content. Marketers are responding to these trends with location based marketing, video content and ramification, among other tactics, in order to offer a more relevant and instant shopping experience.
The high rate of technology penetration is affecting the state of financial services:
• Collaboration economy – driven by social media
• On the go behavior – driven by intensive lifestyles and the rise of mobile technology
• Convenience seeking – driven by connectivity (“the internet of things” and wearable technology)
Time spent on social networking by internet users worldwide is on the rise, causing more sharing and peer to peer behaviors resulting in the “collaboration economy”.
Global Mobile penetration continues to rise, giving birth to more on the go/ mobile financial solutions. Rising penetration of Wearable Technology offers opportunities for companies.
In the EU, online banking adoption rates are 49% in the EU, and in other countries, USA included, penetration surpassed 50%.
We expect Mobile financial services to grow at an accelerated rate, due to the increase in solutions offered through mobile devices as well as younger demographics demand for ultra-convenient solutions. According to the Federal Reserve, in the USA, use of mobile banking continues to rise but is yet to reach the rates of online banking: 43% of all mobile phone owners, and 53% of all smartphone owners with a bank account, had used mobile banking in the 12 months prior to the survey, compared to 71% who used online banking on a desktop, laptop or tablet computer in the same period.
Before long, all shoppers will be mobile shoppers. The answers about how to win with mobile shoppers are not about technology. It’s not about mobile sites versus apps, iPhone versus Android or even retailers versus manufacturers. The answers are found by looking through the eyes of the mobile shopper.
Bricks and Mobile - Brand in Hand- How Brands Can Influence the Shopping TripRemodista
While retailers have traditionally controlled the shopping experience, mobile marketing allows brands to provide shoppers with additional information to influence the purchase. Learn how brands are embracing the channel by looking at successful experiences that vary by low- and high-involvement categories, outside and within the store and across tactics from text messaging to the latest location-based apps. Understand how to prioritize solutions for your brand, which content to provide and how to leverage partnership opportunities with retailers and third party apps like ShopKick and FourSquare.
This is Interbrand Design Forum's 5th annual State of the Retail Industry report, which is produced in conjunction with Chain Store Age magazine. Entitled "Think Forward: In a Race with Change" the report discussed how Retail is being hit with a wave
of game-changing technology in the form of more than 9 million smartphones. As the act of shopping undergoes sweeping transformation, we will experience more change in the next five years than
we have in the past forty.
With an impressive 70% viewing mobile ads as a personal invitation from brands rather than an invasion, it opens up new opportunities for brand advertisers to engage with their consumers.
The Social Shopper: A Lens into the future of Retail ExperiencesDelvinia
The Internet and social media have created a landscape where consumers are a more significant force than ever before. And, digitally-savvy shoppers are leading the way. Our study around consumer use of digital technology — conducted through AskingCanadians™ — reveals that digital experiences are not only a key component in the purchase process; but digitally-inclined shoppers are fast becoming the consumers of the future.
Consumers are becoming increasingly dependent on mobile technology. Consumers not only own more mobile devices, but they also use them more often for an increasing number of tasks.
Marketers are searching for ways to grasp opportunities stemming from the extraordinary mobile penetration and usage patterns. Mobile devices provide easier ways for marketers to provide added-values to the consumer and shopper, making their lives easier.
The following presentation discusses several trends and enablers, mainly:Emerging Devices & Technologies, Consumer added values from mobile,Mobile Marketing Best Practices such as apps, gaming, content, commerce etc.
Berkshire Digital - The Future of Ecommerce: 2013 and beyondBerkshire Digital
James Gurd of Digital Juggler presented to Berkshire Digital on 17th January on the Future of Ecommerce. Sponsored by Cranberry Panda, the event was a great success. The accompanying podcast can be downloaded by visiting www.berkshiredigital.org
Retail Mobility: Welcoming the consumer on mobile[x]cube LABS
Our Whitepaper focuses on retail mobile solutions and endeavors to decipher the reasons behind retailers taking the mobile plunge, the seismic shift in the consumer behavior, the growth engines behind retail mobility,
opportunities, challenges and advantages for various stakeholders and a look into the days ahead.
The global market for self service is experiencing growth, and research companies predict it will keep growing in the next few years. The main reason for growth is that self service can benefit both customers and companies.
Companies that deliver online self service are able to minimize costs (as long as service is provided efficiently) and benefit from increased customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, lifetime value and advocacy.
in terms of customer satisfaction, there is a clear preference for digital and multi-channel service. However, poor self service can cause the customer to abandon the channel. For organizations, self- service saves costs as long as the service is provided correctly and the information is synchronized between the different channels. Today, customer satisfaction is still very high when a live representative is involved, but our assessment is that in the near future, the picture may change following the entry of innovative tools that enhance the service experience significantly. We expect robots (or “bots”) to become the next preferred channel for self service, with the accumulation of data, which enables a better automatic service than ever before.
Mobile technology adoption continues to grow, and recent consumer trends include rise in wearable tech and VR / AR, as well as growing use of chatting apps, mobile commerce, and consumption of mobile video content. Marketers are responding to these trends with location based marketing, video content and ramification, among other tactics, in order to offer a more relevant and instant shopping experience.
The high rate of technology penetration is affecting the state of financial services:
• Collaboration economy – driven by social media
• On the go behavior – driven by intensive lifestyles and the rise of mobile technology
• Convenience seeking – driven by connectivity (“the internet of things” and wearable technology)
Time spent on social networking by internet users worldwide is on the rise, causing more sharing and peer to peer behaviors resulting in the “collaboration economy”.
Global Mobile penetration continues to rise, giving birth to more on the go/ mobile financial solutions. Rising penetration of Wearable Technology offers opportunities for companies.
In the EU, online banking adoption rates are 49% in the EU, and in other countries, USA included, penetration surpassed 50%.
We expect Mobile financial services to grow at an accelerated rate, due to the increase in solutions offered through mobile devices as well as younger demographics demand for ultra-convenient solutions. According to the Federal Reserve, in the USA, use of mobile banking continues to rise but is yet to reach the rates of online banking: 43% of all mobile phone owners, and 53% of all smartphone owners with a bank account, had used mobile banking in the 12 months prior to the survey, compared to 71% who used online banking on a desktop, laptop or tablet computer in the same period.
Before long, all shoppers will be mobile shoppers. The answers about how to win with mobile shoppers are not about technology. It’s not about mobile sites versus apps, iPhone versus Android or even retailers versus manufacturers. The answers are found by looking through the eyes of the mobile shopper.
Bricks and Mobile - Brand in Hand- How Brands Can Influence the Shopping TripRemodista
While retailers have traditionally controlled the shopping experience, mobile marketing allows brands to provide shoppers with additional information to influence the purchase. Learn how brands are embracing the channel by looking at successful experiences that vary by low- and high-involvement categories, outside and within the store and across tactics from text messaging to the latest location-based apps. Understand how to prioritize solutions for your brand, which content to provide and how to leverage partnership opportunities with retailers and third party apps like ShopKick and FourSquare.
Shippers Warehouse, Inc. is a provider of supply chain services (3rd party logistics or 3PL). The Company operates over 4.5 million square feet in 8 facilities in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and 500,000 square feet in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Georgia facility packaging operations ships out over 3 billion bags per year. Shippers Warehouse is one of the largest co-packers in the Southeast. Shippers operate 9 packaging lines with a ready room that is a showcase for reducing any type of foreign matter. The facility handles a variety of food products, is a leader in recycling, & distribution of products.
Shippers Warehouse, Inc. also has the distinction of having all of its locations ISO 9001:2008 certified. (ISO 9001:2008 certified by Management Certification of North America, an ANAB-accredited certification body.)
Regards,
Bill Stankiewicz
Vice President & General Manager
Shippers Warehouse
Office: 678.364.3475
williams@shipperswarehouse.com
www.shipperswarehouse.com
RETAIL: The Power of Personalizing The Mobile ExerienceVideoBeet.TV
In questa ricerca i retailers identificano i 3 punti prioritari per una strategia di personalizzazione mobile: informazioni sui nuovi prodotti, disponibilità e prezzo.
Il sondaggio chiamato: The Power Of Personalizing The Mobile Experience, è una guida per i retailer che intendono sviluppare strategie di personalizzazione vincenti.
Mobile and Loyalty Programs - The Hyper Digital Age: Accelerating customer bo...BrandEmotivity
Thanks to the fast-paced growth of connected devices such as smartphones and tablets, brands have never before had so much data available to define an individual customer's feelings, needs and emotions. By capturing this behavioural data, brands can build useful intelligence. For loyalty programs, the opportunity is in making truly contextually relevant approaches, driving real value to customers.
Will 2015 be the year of wearables? Will Apple Pay succeed? Why are enterprise apps getting more expensive and complex? What's happening with Big data? How should developers treat phablets?
Every year we analyse and summarise the key mobile trends for the following year and share with customers and partners. The main objective is to keep you up to date on what’s going on and give you insights into what these trends may mean for you. Last year our mobility predictions and UX/UI trend presentations were used in hundreds of workshops, lectures and jointly got more than 100,000 views on Slideshare.
The Top 10 Mobile Trends for 2015 are more exciting than ever as we are experiencing explosive growth in almost every area including mobile usage (apps and web), mobile commerce, payments, enterprise apps, Internet of Things, wearables, nearables (sensors) and invincibles, data driven mobile services (big data), mobility in healthcare, omni-channel retail and innovations in mobile application development.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.