4/20/2021 10:13:22 AM How The Best Companies Convince Consumers to Believe in Their Company Over Any Competitor. By Stephen Sumner The retail industry is most impacted by dynamic changes in consumer demand as today’s consumers want immediate, easy, 24/7 shopping...
4/20/2021 9:22:45 AM How Agile Retail Pop Ups & Social Media Are Creating a 'Whack A Mole' Challenge for Retail Multiples By Stephen Sumner Everywhere we look today we can access virtually any kind of content. If your on Facebook, Instagram, and now even on LinkedIn you will...
2/11/2021 8:59:16 AM Why Working With A Start-Up Can Move Your Transformation Strategy at Speed. By Stephen Sumner The world of digital can be a veritable minefield, especially when your company is trying to keep up with all those trendy start-ups who...
2/4/2021 1:07:09 PM When Inertia Is With the Consumer How Do You Maintain 'Front of Mind' Awareness? By Stephen Sumner Fickle lot those socially savvy consumers eh! Let's be honest with ourselves, retail adopted the homogenisation and the blandness of...
2/4/2021 12:41:05 PM 54% of Gen Z Have Made Money from Something They Have Created - Is 'Social Micro To Macro' The Next Biggest Threat to Retail? By Stephen Sumner Businesses are collapsing at an alarming rate, unemployment is rocketing around the world yet pent up creativity, innovation, and...
12/13/2020 12:00:00 AM Why The World is Switching to an XaaS model - Everything as a Service. By Stephen Sumner This pandemic has triggered an exodus of companies to accelerate into the digital space. Its impact on businesses has been on four...
11/20/2020 9:09:44 AM The Myth Of Innovation: The Real Reason Your Company Needs To Digitize By Tim Hughes Last night my partner and I went for a walk in west London where we live. It gets dark at this time of the year, 16:00 in the afternoon. ...
11/8/2020 12:00:00 AM What Can Business Learn from 'Flying Private' - Is it a Sign of Change in the Luxury & Other Sectors? By Stephen Sumner As you may know our core focus at 'Vitacheck' is to help unblock the disruption within the travel industry. Unblock the disruption and...
9/14/2020 10:37:19 AM What Big Business Can Learn From the SME Sector. By Stephen Sumner I spend a lot of time posting blogs about several macro consumer focused sectors, including 'Healthcare, Legal, Financial, and Retail'...
9/14/2020 10:20:50 AM Why Established Companies Are Less Innovative & Eventually Lose Out? By Stephen Sumner I'm not going to get too philosophical about it but from the day we are born, right through to the final days of our passing we align...
8/10/2020 11:46:23 AM "Sales Associates" - Retail's Under Utilised 'SuperPower'. By Stephen Sumner My blogs tend to steer away from religion, and especially politics - after all who on earth can predict the ongoing direction and impact...
7/21/2020 12:00:00 AM Why Retail Needs Visual Merchandising Now More Than Ever - Here's How! By Stephen Sumner There is much confusion and debate around the ongoing validity of the department store format with the likes of John Lewis and Debenhams...
6/3/2020 10:01:32 AM How Changes in Behavior By Covid 19 for Car Retailing Will Help to Kick Start the Sector. By Stephen Sumner As countries around the world start to ease their flavour of 'lockdown' one of those first sectors to be able to open up is the car...
5/27/2020 10:16:51 AM Why 'Growth' will Supersede Transformation for Business post Lockdown. By Stephen Sumner Stating the blindingly obvious every business has been transformed by Covid. I'm a brand and business transformation expert. That's not a...
5/20/2020 9:23:55 AM It Just Got Easier for Your Supplier to Cut You Out - Here's How! By Stephen Sumner Today's generations know nothing other than the free to access, free to use, lo-cost, no-cost digital world that many from previous...
5/11/2020 1:30:36 PM 5 Ways Retailers (and others) Can Leverage The Agility Mojo & Reduce Cost? By Stephen Sumner Without warning and without choice, brands and retailers have had to adapt to a pandemic that no one saw coming. As a direct result of...