Opportunities Backed up with Belief
“The best opportunities are the opportunities that are backed up with belief.” ~ Coach Mike Krzyzewski Although Clay and I are die-hard Georgia Tech fans, having spent our college years toiling on [...]
Which System Implementation Activities Should Not Be Done Remotely
Recently, Principal Marty Anderson and Senior Manager Russ Smith got together on Parker Avery’s “Talk Retail to Me” podcast to discuss how system implementation projects changed over the past year due to the myriad [...]
Driving Success in 2021
As we quickly approach the summer season, our retail and consumer goods clients are increasingly becoming more optimistic about their prospects for a successful 2021. With many parts of the country progressing in getting the [...]
AI Adoption in Supply Chain Planning
This past Saturday morning, I had the pleasure of joining panel of analytics and supply chain experts on the Clubhouse social media platform for a discussion on artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in supply chain [...]
Demystifying the Centralized Demand Signal
A couple weeks ago, Parker Avery's Chief Analytics Officer Sam Iosevich and Partner Amanda Astrologo participated in a CGT webinar where they discussed the benefits of a centralized demand signal. Over the last few [...]
Analytics: A Win-Win Approach
Recently on Parker Avery’s Talk Retail to Me," podcast, our Chief Analytics Officer, Sam Iosevich, and his long-time colleague, George Arutyunyants discussed George’s continuous journey through advanced analytics. As the firm’s Senior Director of Analytics, [...]
Gaining Proficiency Through Virtual Learning
Training alone does not lead to proficiency. There must be intentional knowledge transfer and sustainment activities. A few weeks ago, a few of our change management and training experts got together on Parker [...]
2021: The Year of Collaborative Decisiveness
Retailers and consumer brands cannot rely solely on past performance to predict the future. This tenet has always been true, but 2020 and the pandemic have intensified the focus and accelerated the need [...]
Overcoming Resistance to Change
A few weeks ago, on our “Talk Retail to Me” podcast, Parker Avery’s change leader Kathi Toll interviewed change management expert Carrie Habel. The two retail veterans discussed how company leaders can understand and address [...]
A Game-Changing Advanced Analytics Solution
On a recent Parker Avery “Talk Retail to Me” podcast episode, Chief Analytics Officer Sam Iosevich discussed Parker Avery's advanced analytics solution development efforts with the firm's Director of Solutions Architecture, Leo Greyz. Leo is enhancing Parker [...]
More than Success: ROI Significance
We talk often about change management for our clients, but last Friday, The Parker Avery Group sponsored an event that has the ability to truly change the world: the RetailROI (Retail Orphan Initiative) SuperFriday [...]
2021 Focus Areas for Brick-and-Mortar Retailers
Despite the hesitancy of many consumers to venture back into brick-and-mortar stores in the waning weeks of 2020, the industry realized that physical shopping channels—while undeniably and forever altered—are indeed here to stay. Recently, we [...]
Insights on the State of the Logistics Report: Resilience Tested
I just finished reviewing CSCMPs (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals) Annual State of the Logistics Report, authored by Kearney with input from a number of industry professionals. The report primarily covers 2019, and [...]
7 Tips for Solution Demonstration Success
Quite often The Parker Avery Group is engaged to manage retail software selection projects and solution demonstrations are a typical part of the process. Having participated in a wide variety of software demos over [...]
Unleashing Your “Superpowers”
In this transcript version of our Talk Retail to Me podcast, we welcome the newest member of the Parker Avery team, Rob Gentry. While he’s fairly new to our firm, Rob is certainly not [...]
Three (or Maybe Four) Key Takeaways from Analytics Unite
Last week, The Parker Avery Group sponsored and participated in Consumer Goods Technology’s Analytics Unite event—a groundbreaking virtual conference that brought together around 500 retail and consumer goods professionals from a variety of different backgrounds [...]
Strategic Sourcing in a Disrupted Supply Chain
In this episode of Parker Avery's podcast, "Talk Retail to Me," we take a deep dive into strategic sourcing decisions for retailers and consumer brands. I interviewed Robert Kaufman, Parker Avery’s CEO, along with [...]
Digging DEEP: Achieving Omnichannel Resilience
Earlier this week, Sam Iosevich and Marty Anderson participated in a virtual networking event hosted by Parker Avery partner Synoptek, a global systems integrator (GSI) and managed IT services provider (MSP). This invitation-only, private [...]
Deep Analytics: Why You Need it Now More Than Ever
In this podcast, we interviewed Parker Avery experts Clay Parnell and Sam Iosevich to discuss how retailers and consumer brands can embrace analytics into their business models to enable cross functional collaboration and deliver [...]
Two Critical Inventory Changes for BOPIS Success
The Parker Avery Group recently published a point of view, "Essential Disruption: Store Level Omnichannel Capabilities for Retail’s New World," in which inventory expert, Rob Oglesby discusses key tenets retailers must embrace to deliver [...]
Retailing Curbside: Six Keys to the New Omnichannel Customer Experience
I’ve been impressed by the efforts of many retailers over the past several months to quickly deploy new capabilities to allow ongoing commerce while dealing with the complexity and unknowns around both COVID-19 and [...]
Fortune Favors the Bold
At long last, over 30 states have begun to ease or eliminate shelter in place restrictions. This means your operations will begin to rev-up again, and there are many experts and advisors providing recommendations on [...]
Reconstructing Retail: Defying Yesterday’s Logic
The Parker Avery Group hosted our third Reconstructing Retail webinar last Thursday, "Beginning the Journey: Emerge from COVID-19." Here, we recap key messages, as well as answer questions from the webinar attendees.Before talking about the [...]
Tailored Intelligence for Retail
As the retail industry emerges from the pandemic environment, advances in technology coupled with massively changed competitive and global dynamics have put increased pressure on the hyper-critical nature of strategic decisions. Retail leaders [...]
Mobilizing and Sustaining a Resilient Organization
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a 4-part webinar series, Reconstructing Retail. For those of you that were able to participate with us, thank you. We know that although many are [...]