Recently, I experienced a case where I became very aware of diversity and the importance of it, while helping my daughters research and apply to colleges. Sometimes, diversity ‘sneaks up’ on you and you don’t realize how important it is until you look back on your experiences and become more aware of it. This is…
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This Wednesdays for Women is another article in the “Lessons from Leaders” series featuring ideas from JDA leaders on topics of interest to anyone seeking insights and experiences that can help them grow their own leadership skills. In today’s blog, Dianne Bender, Project Manager on JDA’s Documentation team and member of the JDA Winning Leadership…
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In the age of Amazon, are retail stores still here to stay? JoAnn Martin, JDA’s senior strategy leader for Retail thinks so. In this video blog, she shares why shoppers still want an in-store experience and what the biggest change is in retail right now. Hint! Prepare for more about AI and machine learning. Watch…
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What’s putting Retail’s move to emerging technologies in motion and shaking up store operations? In this video blog, JoAnn Martin, JDA’s senior strategy leader for Retail breaks it all down for us. She shares the three main forces that are driving the industry forward faster than ever and what changing customer behaviors mean for retailers,…
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This blog features insights from Regenia Sanders, EY Advisory Principal for the Supply Chain and Operations practice. Regenia leads the Americas Supply Chain practice for the industrial products sector. In their strategic alliance, EY and JDA are helping clients transform their supply chains for the digital future. Reginia discusses her unconventional path toward a 20+…
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Today Wednesdays for Women is another in our occasional series titled “Lessons from Leaders” featuring learnings from JDA leaders on topics of interest to anyone seeking insights and experiences that can help them grow their own leadership skills. In today’s blog, Claudia Kraft, senior consulting operations director and member of the JDA Winning Leadership program,…
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It’s a new year and retail is moving faster—finally we’re seeing retailers looking in the right direction—up. A unified commerce environment, an on-demand marketplace, social media, growing competition and new technologies mean an evolution in the way we shop. Everything is changing – from pricing and planning the just right product assortments to forecasting demand…
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It’s been a tremendous year for our Wednesdays for Women blog as we have highlighted women around the globe from JDA, our customers, partners and industry influencers, too. Not only did these blogs have a lot of learnings, they offered some pretty spot-on advice (as highlighted last week). This week as we officially kick off…
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As we round out 2018 and a wonderful year profiling and learning from women for our Wednesdays for Women series, we are looking back on some of the ‘best of’ advice from the Q&A interviews we conducted this year. There is a lot of wisdom woven into these stories, and we have enjoyed sharing them…
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The season of giving is upon us and retailers have more reasons to celebrate this year. Holiday Sales are expected to grow between 4.3 – 4.8% year-over-year, (that’s up to $720.8 billion) according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). And the holiday magic doesn’t stop there – November retail sales were up .7% from October…
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