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How ‘social’ are different sectors?

This blog explores social media trends within specific sectors. You can download the full whitepaper here The research that this paper is based on found some interesting differences between sectors in...

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Top five tips for gaining Board approval on IT initiatives

It’s quite hard for a Board to fully understand the benefits of a new IT initiative whether it be a public or a private limited company. That may sound bizarre, it’s true though and can make it...

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Top five stories for March

In a wonderfully high-tech March we saw pole dancing robots and the introduction of Viewpoint’s answer to Johnny 5: the lovely — and impeccably well informed — NIQI. Viewpoint continues to be an...

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UK: the leader in multichannel retailing?

I had the privilege last month to spend half a day with some really great and prominent figures of the retail, technology, not for profit and academic worlds. What excited me the most was what we...

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Shopping and smartphones

Remember catalogues? There was a time when shopping out of a catalogue was right up there with drive-thru restaurants and the shopping channel as the height of convenient retail. Technology never used...

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Ralph Hengstenberg: Retail, Food and Drink day, Lancaster House

By Ralph Hengstenberg, Marketing Director UK Markets at BT Global Services Last week I attended the Retail, Food and Drink day at the British Business Embassy at Lancaster House, which brought...

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What is Retailtopia?

With retailers and consumers coming up with ever-imaginative ways to use technology to shop, it makes you wonder just how far this new trend can go. The UK is now a world-leader in multichannel...

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Tailor-made collaborative tools

The Tommy Hilfiger Group is a £2.5 billion global clothing and retail company which distributes its products in over 65 countries around the world. The design process has become central to the group’s...

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Bring Your Own….Cube!

By Sanjay Maraj, Global practice Head of Mobility, BT Advise Some film fans may have seen The Cube, a low budget cult film made by Vincenzo Natali, where characters wake up to find themselves in a...

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Everything’s all white for online retailers this Christmas

Christmas has come early for online retailers as smartphone wielding Brits shed the purse strings and spend, spend, spend. In fact, internet shopping is so popular in the UK that we do more of it than...

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Delivering the Retail Supply Chain of the Future

By Emer Timmons, President, BT Global Services Almost a year ago, we launched Retailtopia, an initiative created by BT to help forge a positive future for the retail industry. With Retailtopia, we...

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Omnichannel customer service and business on the ICT priority list

The term omnichannel is omnipresent. And there’s a good reason for it: it reflects consumer behavior. People are not using all channels for everything the whole time. However, they use different...

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Big Ideas from the Big Apple

It’s a tough time for traditional retailers – as the number of prominent casualties on the UK high street in recent weeks testifies. However, the National Retail Federation show in New York last week...

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Can’t all sectors use social media like retail?

Retail rules the social media game. But our research has shown that not all sectors are equal in the social media world – and some have a much harder job than retailers to get engagement from their...

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Retailtopia — a vision for British retail in 2020

Tough times often trigger innovation, and retail represents a fertile opportunity for boldness and dynamism. Last year, with a mission to create a positive future for omni-channel shopping, we launched...

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Ten hot consumer trends for 2013

2012 was an extraordinary year for British consumers – from the highs of an overwhelmingly successful Olympics, to the lows of the worst double dip recession in recent history and a renewed focus on...

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The End of Retail as We Know it?

There’s no doubt, 2012 was a tough year for the high street and judging by the number of retailer casualties so far, 2013 might not be much better. Fifty-four major retailers failed during 2012, making...

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The Two Unlikely Keys to Omni-channel Success

It’s nice to share Collaboration in retail supply chains, both the sharing of infrastructure, like shared trucks and warehouses, or the sharing of data, would give great benefits to retailers and their...

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BT: a leader in the Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant again

We’re at it again, and just four months after being positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant for Gartner’s Asia-Pacific Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant*, BT is delighted to have been positioned in...

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BT in Gartner Research

As you know we’ve just been positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant of Gartner’s Global Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant for the ninth time*. As well as that Gartner also rated us as “outstanding”...

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