This year is shaping up to be the best year for the retail and consumer products segments since the recession. Moody’s recently upgraded its retail forecast to a 5.3% growth rate in 2016, almost double the growth rate in the last few years, with particularly strong growth expected in home improvement and grocery. Although apparel […]
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Sharing our retail success stories at NRF 2016
Moody’s recently upgraded its retail forecast to a 5.3% growth rate in 2016, almost double the growth rate in the last few years. We’ve done a lot for retail companies in the past two years to plan for this growth and evolve and improve their systems to accommodate it. Because we are so focused on helping our […]
User Experience Debt: Why, What, and How? (Part 2)
Part 1 of this post shared some ways that I’ve seen user experience debt burgeon from projects. This includes all manner of usability flaws and poor experiences. Here, Part 2 offers a strategic framework for addressing those problems. It’s divided into the following 3 sections as “Why”, “What” and “How.” Purpose. Why do we want to improve […]
HCA’s MyHealthONE Patient Portal Empowers Patients
We are all aware of the enormous impact Government regulations have had on healthcare and while they are in place to improve healthcare, in some cases they may be hindering progress. For example, to meet Meaningful Use requirements healthcare providers must provide electronic health records to their patients and for most organizations the vehicle for […]
The Year in Review | Top 10 Consumer Markets Posts of 2015
As we are deep into prime shopping season, we’d like to take a moment to look back at the extraordinary year 2015 has been. With mobile, personalization, security and digital disruption, there was no shortage of change in the industry. Here were our top ten posts of the year: Ten | 4 Lessons in […]
A bright future in digital: Perficient acquires Enlighten
Last week, we announced that Perficient has acquired Enlighten, a digital marketing agency with great expertise and experience delivering digital strategy, user experience, marketing technology, digital media, and marketing analytics solutions. Adding Enlighten to Perficient further accelerates our capacity to help the world’s leading enterprises digitally transform, and we’re thrilled to add another team that couples excellent […]
Outta sight! The next Google Glass looks nothing like glasses
Remember Google Glass? That head-mounted computer resembling a pair of glassless eyeglasses? You are forgiven if you have forgotten. Google’s first attempt at ubiquitous computing sure had cachet when it went to market in the spring of 2014 and was dubbed the natural next step in digital-first design. That cachet disappeared less than a year […]
The Line Between Retail and Healthcare Continues to Blur
The retailization of healthcare. The consumerization of healthcare. Patients and/or consumers. The buzz and debate around the retail/healthcare topic continues to come up as the line between the two industries continues to blur. Patients, as consumers in other industries have rising expectations in regards to customer experience and service. Retail is having an enormous impact […]
Cognitive Commerce
What are top business leaders looking for? Innovation. Innovation that will help give them an edge above their competitor and differentiate them from the rest of the pack. However, nothing is easy and it can be very difficult to find those hidden opportunities that can boost a company ahead of others. With the digital […]
The 5th P of marketing – people
Part 2 of 2 We are rapidly moving into the holiday shopping season and retailers are in for a rubber meets the road experience. The tried and true sales gimmicks they’ve relied on in season’s past may not work so well this November and December. Consumers have become accustomed to receiving free shipping, price matching […]
This Holiday Season, Retailers Need to Deliver
According to the new JDA 2015 Consumer Survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers, shoppers want what they want, when they want it, and they don’t want to pay. The bar is getting higher for retailers during the peak holiday shopping season. Those who can meet the demands of their online-savvy shoppers will be the winners […]
User Experience Debt: Why, What and How? (Part 1)
As a user experience designer, I used to think that the worst designed websites were the best candidates for improvement. Symptoms of user experience debt may sound familiar to you – confusing navigation, excess clicks, accessibility violations, and painful load times. I applied to jobs thinking the larger the UX debt, the greater the opportunity. […]