The document provides an overview of social commerce and its evolution through four phases:
1) Let's Be Social - Focused on driving brand advocacy and sales through social media.
2) Enlightened Engagement - Integrating social and e-commerce platforms to influence influencers and understand customers.
3) Store of the Community - Customers drive product selection and services through open innovation networks.
4) Frictionless Commerce - Companies redesign the shopping experience across channels to be truly customer-centric.
The report is based on interviews with 54 industry leaders and a survey of 123 retailers and manufacturers. It aims to guide companies in developing social commerce strategies tailored to their industry's pace and
David is an experienced Android developer, author of successful app "Settle Up". He will introduce more technical view on how to define MVP (minimal viable product), design UI, develop, test and launch the app from the point of an indie developer. Then he will show why the true work starts after the release. Afterwards we will offer a snack and the opportunity to ask any questions.
This report is intended primarily for business people who are tasked with understanding, interpreting, and acting on social data — executives, strategic planners, social strategists, and marketers. It outlines the key challenges of social data, proposes a value-based framework for social analytics, and recommends clear and pragmatic steps that companies engaged in social media must follow to ensure they are gaining insights, measuring effectively, interpreting accurately, and taking appropriate action — both today and in the longer term.
David is an experienced Android developer, author of successful app "Settle Up". He will introduce more technical view on how to define MVP (minimal viable product), design UI, develop, test and launch the app from the point of an indie developer. Then he will show why the true work starts after the release. Afterwards we will offer a snack and the opportunity to ask any questions.
This report is intended primarily for business people who are tasked with understanding, interpreting, and acting on social data — executives, strategic planners, social strategists, and marketers. It outlines the key challenges of social data, proposes a value-based framework for social analytics, and recommends clear and pragmatic steps that companies engaged in social media must follow to ensure they are gaining insights, measuring effectively, interpreting accurately, and taking appropriate action — both today and in the longer term.
This report is intended primarily for business people who are tasked with understanding,
interpreting, and acting on social data—executives, strategic planners, social strategists,
and marketers. It will outline the key challenges of social data, propose a value-based
framework for social analytics, and recommend clear and pragmatic steps that companies
engaged in social media must follow to ensure they are gaining insights, measuring effectively,
interpreting accurately, and taking appropriate action—both today and in the longer term.
At one time, the physical store defined the retailer. It was the brand. Today, this has changed. Now the store is a part of a cross-channel experience. It is a combination of goods and services. The impact of the change is different by retail sector, but it is pervasive.
While changes in other industries have happened incrementally through continuous improvement and process innovation, retail has been transformed by new business models. The pace is faster and the customer demands higher.
Redefining the role of the store is critical. It requires partnerships of both retailers and manufacturers. It is for this reason that we wrote this report.
Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Brick & Mortar Retail-18 FEB 2013Lora Cecere
The bricks and mortar retailer is being squeezed. Growth is slowing and margin is under pressure. With the rise of e-commerce, the role of the store is being redefined. It is about service and the customer experience. As a result, it is time to rethink the metrics that matter and focus outside-in on the shopper experience.
In this report, we share insights on the current state of bricks and mortar retail and offer our suggestions.
Brick & mortar retailers have weathered an intense decade with the persistent rise of e-commerce. The shopper has changed and recovery from the Great Recession is ongoing, but slow. Our previous Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Retail report focused on the broader industry trends affecting five different divisions of retailers and the challenges of multi-channel retail. This report narrows the focus to three segments of brick & mortar retailers struggling to adapt to the new world.
A retailer is not a retailer. We believe that retailers should be compared by business model. We do not believe that one can throw all retailers together and identify the “most improved” or “best” supply chain. There are too many variables and circumstances affecting the retail landscape to make valid comparisons. In our research, we find that small and well-defined peer groups offer the best way forward for understanding both segment and industry specific trends.
The industry segments analyzed in this report are grocery, mass and specialty. Grocery retailers are involved in the sale of perishable and non-perishable food stuffs. Mass retailers are larger companies focused on providing a comprehensive retail experience to their customers. Finally, specialty retailers are dedicated to specific customers, activities and goods. The companies in this analysis represent both American and global retailers.
Our grocery peer group consists of Carrefour, Delhaize Group, Safeway and The Kroger Co. The mass retailer peer group includes Costco, Metro, Target and Walmart. The choice of specialty retailers was by far the most difficult because there are so many dedicated stores in this category. For this publication, our peer group includes Bed Bath & Beyond, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Foot Locker and Ross Stores. Additional information about all of these companies is presented in the Appendix.
The report mentioned by Marek during the presentation.
It includes some more case studies including Starbucks, Toyota & SAP.
It also discusses the extent to which large US firms are involved in social media.
Source: EngagmentDB
Top 100 Companies\' Engagement in social mediaSerge Beckers
The goals of the study were to measure how deeply engaged the top 100 global brands are in a variety of social media channels and, more importantly, understand if higher engagement is correlated with financial performance. We found that not only could we quantifiably measure engagement, we could also understand how more engaged companies tap an engagement mindset to perform better. The report lists some of the key findings.
ENGAGEMENTdb: Social Media Engagement Study of the Top 100 Global BrandsElizabeth Lupfer
The goals of the study were to measure how deeply engaged the top 100 global brands are in a variety of social media channels and, more importantly, understand if higher engagement is correlated with financial performance. We found that not only could we quantifiably measure engagement, we could also understand how more engaged companies tap an engagement mindset to perform better.
A critical look at three years of supply chain disruption. Using quantitative and qualitative research, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, looks critically at the factors within companies that drove resilience and the factors less successful. Companies that won were aligned, used market signals, decreased process latency, used scenario planning, and implemented descriptive analytics. Those that fared worse, had tight integration of supply chain planning to ERP, were not aligned, and were focused on a digital transformation strategy.
This report is intended primarily for business people who are tasked with understanding,
interpreting, and acting on social data—executives, strategic planners, social strategists,
and marketers. It will outline the key challenges of social data, propose a value-based
framework for social analytics, and recommend clear and pragmatic steps that companies
engaged in social media must follow to ensure they are gaining insights, measuring effectively,
interpreting accurately, and taking appropriate action—both today and in the longer term.
At one time, the physical store defined the retailer. It was the brand. Today, this has changed. Now the store is a part of a cross-channel experience. It is a combination of goods and services. The impact of the change is different by retail sector, but it is pervasive.
While changes in other industries have happened incrementally through continuous improvement and process innovation, retail has been transformed by new business models. The pace is faster and the customer demands higher.
Redefining the role of the store is critical. It requires partnerships of both retailers and manufacturers. It is for this reason that we wrote this report.
Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Brick & Mortar Retail-18 FEB 2013Lora Cecere
The bricks and mortar retailer is being squeezed. Growth is slowing and margin is under pressure. With the rise of e-commerce, the role of the store is being redefined. It is about service and the customer experience. As a result, it is time to rethink the metrics that matter and focus outside-in on the shopper experience.
In this report, we share insights on the current state of bricks and mortar retail and offer our suggestions.
Brick & mortar retailers have weathered an intense decade with the persistent rise of e-commerce. The shopper has changed and recovery from the Great Recession is ongoing, but slow. Our previous Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Retail report focused on the broader industry trends affecting five different divisions of retailers and the challenges of multi-channel retail. This report narrows the focus to three segments of brick & mortar retailers struggling to adapt to the new world.
A retailer is not a retailer. We believe that retailers should be compared by business model. We do not believe that one can throw all retailers together and identify the “most improved” or “best” supply chain. There are too many variables and circumstances affecting the retail landscape to make valid comparisons. In our research, we find that small and well-defined peer groups offer the best way forward for understanding both segment and industry specific trends.
The industry segments analyzed in this report are grocery, mass and specialty. Grocery retailers are involved in the sale of perishable and non-perishable food stuffs. Mass retailers are larger companies focused on providing a comprehensive retail experience to their customers. Finally, specialty retailers are dedicated to specific customers, activities and goods. The companies in this analysis represent both American and global retailers.
Our grocery peer group consists of Carrefour, Delhaize Group, Safeway and The Kroger Co. The mass retailer peer group includes Costco, Metro, Target and Walmart. The choice of specialty retailers was by far the most difficult because there are so many dedicated stores in this category. For this publication, our peer group includes Bed Bath & Beyond, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Foot Locker and Ross Stores. Additional information about all of these companies is presented in the Appendix.
The report mentioned by Marek during the presentation.
It includes some more case studies including Starbucks, Toyota & SAP.
It also discusses the extent to which large US firms are involved in social media.
Source: EngagmentDB
Top 100 Companies\' Engagement in social mediaSerge Beckers
The goals of the study were to measure how deeply engaged the top 100 global brands are in a variety of social media channels and, more importantly, understand if higher engagement is correlated with financial performance. We found that not only could we quantifiably measure engagement, we could also understand how more engaged companies tap an engagement mindset to perform better. The report lists some of the key findings.
ENGAGEMENTdb: Social Media Engagement Study of the Top 100 Global BrandsElizabeth Lupfer
The goals of the study were to measure how deeply engaged the top 100 global brands are in a variety of social media channels and, more importantly, understand if higher engagement is correlated with financial performance. We found that not only could we quantifiably measure engagement, we could also understand how more engaged companies tap an engagement mindset to perform better.
A critical look at three years of supply chain disruption. Using quantitative and qualitative research, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, looks critically at the factors within companies that drove resilience and the factors less successful. Companies that won were aligned, used market signals, decreased process latency, used scenario planning, and implemented descriptive analytics. Those that fared worse, had tight integration of supply chain planning to ERP, were not aligned, and were focused on a digital transformation strategy.
River of Demand - ALL RIVERS with QR.pdfLora Cecere
Drawings of demand as a river depicting the issues with flow with the voice overlay of the planner. To hear the voice, scan the QR code at the bottom of the drawing.
Presentation was given at the Longbow presentation on the future of supply chain management and the value of changing processes to make decisions a the speed of business decisions
At the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, we challenged the audience to think about "social tokens" using this presentation from Luke Layden of Coin Desk.
Today's supply chain processes are inside-out. Outside-in processes, using channel and market data, improve the time to respond. This presentation reflects two years of testing using machine learning to understand the impact on the bullwhip effect and Forecast Value Added.
Now in its ninth year, the Supply Chains to Admire analysis is a study of the progress of each industry sector on the balanced scorecard of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Twenty-two companies outperform their peer group, defining and exemplifying supply chain excellence.
Supply Chains to Admire Analysis 2022_2022 presentation.pptxLora Cecere
Supply Chains to Admire is a data-driven analysis based on public reporting of manufacturing and retail companies. The research evaluates which public companies drove improvement while outperforming their peer groups on performance metrics and value for the ten-year period of 2012-2021. The 25 winners are a testimonial to supply chain resilience.
The Role of Analytics In Defining The Art Of The PossibleLora Cecere
Analytics capabilities are evolving faster than organizations can adopt them into their processes. Here we share the research of 92 respondents in their journey to use new forms of analytics in their digital transformation journey.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
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
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.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and Grafana
Rise of social_commerce_v6_final
1.
Rise of Social Commerce
A Trail Guide for the Social Commerce Pioneer
November 1, 2010
By Lora Cecere
with Jeremiah Owyang, Charlene Li, Susan Etlinger, and Christine Tran
Includes input from 54 ecosystem contributors