The industrial supply chain is under mounting pressure in 2025. With tariffs soaring and geopolitical risks escalating, manufacturers, distributors, and industrial suppliers are facing cost surges, material shortages,...
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Gwen Morrison: Partner, Candezent Advisory and Retail Innovation Expert
This edition of HyTalk features a conversation with Gwen Morrison, one of our most prominent and respected observers of retailing and consumers. Gwen is a partner with Candezent Advisory, a global team of senior business executives and advisors, and the...
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Ricardo Belmar: Executive Marketing Strategist and Retail Tech Advisor
This edition of HyTalk features a conversation with Ricardo Belmar, a retail & CPG industry analyst and marketing leader who advises retailers on how to deliver omnichannel customer experiences that drive revenue through digital transformation.
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Why Winners Win
Transition is never easy in business and key strategic changes are looking even tougher this year. The COVID-19 disruptions have compelled retailers to confront decisions about innovation at a more rapid pace than they may have contemplated before the...
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AI-Powered Retail Optimization: The Merchants’ Perspective
Operational excellence is not a strategy, but retail optimization is proving to be a competitive difference-maker for consumer commerce enterprises in the current era. Retail, restaurant, and e-commerce firms that put Artificial Intelligence to work...
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Getting to the Root of Your Data
Retailers are in a constant race to innovate faster, adjust to trends and adopt a digital future. Unfortunately, they often have a follow-the-leader mentality, which is fueled by looking into a rear-view mirror to determine a future destination. This...
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Serving the new normal on a plate with AI in Restaurants
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
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Jon Stine from Open Voice Network
In this debut edition of HyTalk, we meet Jon Stine, founder of the Open Voice Network. OVN is spearheading the effort to define technical standards and ethical use guidelines for voice assistance technologies.
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The Imperative of AI in Retail
In this Analytics Unite Panel Discussion, learn how retailers and brands are successfully leveraging machine learning and AI in Retail across their enterprise value chain to drive profitable growth quickly in rapidly changing times.
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A CEO’s Perspective of AI: The Next Frontier in Restaurant Technology
These are crazy, unique times. Everyone knows this. Yet, all great leaders also know that crazy, unique times offer the very best opportunity to expand business and build upon strengths. This assumes that you have a differentiated product and experience,...
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AI-Powered Retail Optimization: The Consumer Perspective
Any conversation about Artificial Intelligence in retail, restaurant, and omnichannel commerce leads inevitably to the dichotomy between enterprise users and the end consumer. Who does the AI truly serve?
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AI in eCommerce: Two Perspectives
When it comes to applying AI in eCommerce, it’s all retail. But all retail is not the same.
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Talking Tech Strategy for Retail Post-COVID
With many questions still unanswered six months after the start of the pandemic, scenarios for retail post-COVID are hardly in short supply, even if some consumer goods remain scarce.
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A Glimpse Into the NLP Innovation at Hypersonix
Hypersonix has been identified as one of the hottest startups in the big data and AI space. One of the main USPs of Hypersonix is an internal metric called Time-To-Insight (TTI) which measures the amount of time taken for the business user to reach an...
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Mapping the Return to Inventory Accuracy
Retail inventory accuracy – the degree to which stores suffer from out-of-stocks and excess stocks – had been an area of global business improvement until the COVID-19 crisis arrived.
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Hypersonix Exec Likens AI Innovation for Enterprises to iPhone Mobile Revolution
For the better part of a year, I have been working at one of the most innovative and fast-growing consumer commerce startups to emerge out of California’s Silicon Valley called Hypersonix. After working for much of my career around retail and supply...
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Why Rethinking Retail Demand Forecasting Is More Important Now Than Ever
There’s a good chance that you’ve heard about the “retail apocalypse” among various business circles, and there are many factors challenging this sector.. Some retail organizations are failing because they have too many stores, too much debt, or perhaps...
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Upgrade Your Promotions Strategy in the AI-Era through Shopper’s Data
Here is an eye-opener for most retailers and brands out there – a large percentage (30-40%) of your current promotions may not actually be helping you to accomplish your business objectives. In fact, they may be working against you. When you objectively...
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Consumer Commerce Enterprises
Few self-help books have been more impactful over the years than Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” which was first published in 1989. Since then, many other authors have used the “7 Habits” framework for various purposes. This...