It has been a pretty challenging period recently for many of our nation’s retail CEOs, with consumer spending weathering through some tougher times. And yet the speed of change in consumer behaviour continues to accelerate with demands for more mobility of retail...
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different. Michael Porter It’s no secret that consumers are armed, promiscuous (largely) and well-informed – increasingly favouring quality of offer over the size of a brand. Being...
Investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion. Bill Nye Walk into any regional shopping centre or high street and you will see that some of Australian mid-market speciality retail is...
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man”. So wrote George Bernard Shaw. Great retail shop design, formats, digital integration and...
“Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It’s the only insurance against irrelevance. It’s the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It’s the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.”- Gary Hamel The buzz word of 2017 is...
