Multidimensional Thinking: New Levers for Retail Growth

The Essentialness of Looking Forward: Retailers and companies that sell to and through retailers can no longer use the immediate past as a baseline for planning. While the overall goal—growth—might be the same, the Great Recession and shopper reactions to the changed environment have created an economic reality with slower growth than we’ve seen historically.

Is your business thinking past the 2011 aggregate retail industry growth forecast of 4% to focus on the pockets with 10%+ growth potential?

How is your company planning for growth in a market where building the same store over and over again is no longer an option?

Seeing the World through a New Lens: Novel approaches to the 4 enablers used to bring strategy to life—People, Tools & Technology, Processes & Workflows, and Measurement—are shaping and influencing best practice as retailers and suppliers define how these variables can help them react to—and interact with—the shopper.

Is your business moving beyond cost-cutting measures, loss-minimizing tactics, and immediate ROI to strategically invest in the competitive models, formats, and capabilities that make sense in a “post-modern” world?

Build an understanding of the strategic business opportunities resulting from the ever-changing macro retail landscape—from global trends to the US economic outlook, from an in-depth look at the shopper to the implications of new technology—all while networking with your peers.

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