4/26/2021 10:33:00 AM 84 percent of Organisations Acquire Startups to Bolster Innovation - What About Supermarkets?. By Stephen Sumner If you live in the right part of the country (UK) you can now call on a whole raft of app-based systems that promise to bring you...
4/26/2021 12:00:00 AM Why Retailers are Getting Killed by Their Own Customers & The CMO. By Stephen Sumner On average, CMOs are the shortest-tenured members of the C-suite. Their boards demand greatness from them—expecting top marketers to be...
3/29/2021 12:22:19 PM Digital Alone Won't Transform Anything - You Need the Right Culture. By Stephen Sumner Stating the blindingly obvious the retail industry has been most impacted by enforced behavioural changes in consumer demand as a result...
3/23/2021 12:50:23 PM The Retail Supply Chain: 4 Trends That Might Just Help Give You That Competitive Edge. By Stephen Sumner Since the start of this crisis retail brands of all flavours have been passing key elements of the fiscal pain of this crisis further...
2/16/2021 8:04:27 AM "Invention is the root of our success. We’ve done crazy things together, and then made them normal" - Jeff Bezos 2021. By Stephen Sumner Without a doubt 2020/21 has made us all open to change, particularly in the way we have to go about our daily lives. It will go down in...
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...
1/25/2021 12:18:18 PM Burying Your Head in the Digital Sand Won't Turn Back the Nostalgic Retail Clock - Here's How to Move it Forwards. By Stephen Sumner It took over 100 years for 'mail order' to reach 10% of retail sales - but when eCommerce arrived it took just 10 years. Some on the...
1/25/2021 10:55:22 AM For The Most Part, e-Commerce Hasn’t Changed in the Past Decade or So - Is Now the Time to Do it?. By Stephen Sumner In the second decade of the last century 1910 - 1920 the western world not only experienced the 'war to end all wars' or as is often...
1/18/2021 10:57:22 AM Why 'Walking the Talk' is a Vital Ingredient in Today's Leadership Playbook. By Stephen Sumner Back in the day your CMO would be the brains and powerhouse between your brand staying front of mind over your competitor in order the...
1/14/2021 10:23:21 AM How To 'Leverage' Your People Assets to Help 'Build' Your Way Out of This Crisis. By Stephen Sumner As CEO's and CFO's look to establish even tighter fiscal control it will come as no surprise that marketing are not going to see the...
11/26/2020 12:00:00 AM Mother Should Have Cared More! - If She Had ELC Could have Revived Both Brands. By Stephen Sumner With the continued fall out in the retail sector and ongoing concerns around the impact of a 'no deal' Brexit, each day we see the...
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 12:25:38 PM Why Going 'Back To Basics' Seems to Have been Replaced with 'New & Shiny' in Retail. By Stephen Sumner Don't know about you, I've been around in multi-channel retailing for more years than even I care to remember but a few of the key things...
11/8/2020 12:02:42 PM Why Retail Needs 'Entrepreneurial' CEO's More Than Ever Before. By Stephen Sumner "The biggest threat to any company is to lose sight of the why". This also one of the biggest external threats that ultimately leads to...
11/8/2020 11:33:40 AM Retail? - Now is the Time to Not Just Reimagine the Future, But to Energise it? By Stephen Sumner As Wales comes out of Lockdown, and England enters its (we hope) month long second 'lockdown' on Thursday 5th November, along with the...
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...