Event Presentation | January 16, 2016 Premium The Future Customer and Opportunities for StartupsCharacteristics and Trends Driving Opportunity in the Silvers Market. Read More
Event Presentation | January 15, 2016 Premium The Future of Digital Retail• Anticipating future trends and developments • Plan for future value and avoid obsolescence – What problem are you trying to solve? – How will the solution be used? – How robust does it need to be? • Ensure flexibility to manage changing formats and deployment patterns Read More
Event Presentation | November 15, 2015 Premium Disruptors – Physical and Digital– CVS Health: 37% of 2014 capex was on technology and other corporate initiatives – Nordstrom: 35% of 2014 capex; plans to spend $4.3 billion (5% of sales) over next five years – Walmart: 29% of 2014 US capex; spending “$1.2–$1.5 billion in e-commerce websites and mobile commerce applications” – Home Depot: “Tilting investments towards interconnected retail and technology Read More
Deep Dive | November 10, 2015 Premium Connected Home Series: Smart Home SecurityThis 2nd report of our series on the connected home market examines how security is by far the main reason for adopting smart-home technologies. Read More
Deep Dive | October 22, 2015 Premium Connected Home Series: What Happens When Your Home Is Smarter Than You?This first report of our series on the connected home market provides an overview of the market, key drivers, underlying technologies and major players. Read More
Insight Report | October 18, 2015 Premium EXPLORIUM DISCOVERING THE FUTURE OF RETAILOn September 24th, we were in Shanghai to attend the opening ceremony for Explorium, a Fung Group initiative in collaboration with IBM and Pico. Explorium is an innovative experimentation platform over the future of retail. report is a recap of what we saw. Read More
Event Presentation | October 14, 2015 Premium Top Ideas on Global Retail and TechFBIC TOP 20 RETAIL & TECH TRENDS 1. Ecommercification: More Convenient Payment 2. In-Store Shopping Becomes More Purposeful 3. Webrooming 4. Increasingly Personalized Shopping 5. At-Home Beauty Devices Limit Salon Visits 6. Geofencing and Beacons Enable Location-based Marketing Read More
Insight Report | October 14, 2015 Premium EXPLORIUM: DISCOVERING THE FUTURE OF RETAILOn September 24th, we were in Shanghai to attend the opening ceremony for Explorium, a Fung Group initiative in collaboration with IBM and Pico, which is an innovative experimentation platform over the future of retail. This report is a recap of what we saw. Read More
Event Presentation | August 24, 2015 Premium The Collision of Digital Health the Consumer and Wearables Read More
Deep Dive | July 28, 2015 Premium Connected Cars: A Mobile Device CruisingAutomobiles are logically the next devices to be connected to the Internet, since we spend so much time in them and want connectivity everywhere. They will function as nodes in the Internet of Things (IoT), which is forecasted to encompass 50 billion devices by 2020. Read More
Event Presentation | February 24, 2015 Premium The Disruptors – The New Connected WorldMachine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Machine learning finding its way through startups into applications like marketing, security, and operations • Deep learning includes computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and bioinformatics • Companies today are using neural networks to identify objects for use in driverless cars Read More
Deep Dive | December 15, 2014 Premium Uberification and its ImplicationsInspired by Uber’s business model and the concept of sharing and an on-demand economy, start-ups are increasingly seeking to “uberfy” the world. Read More
Deep Dive | December 12, 2014 Premium The Potential And Pitfalls Of Consumer Data-MiningAs the era of Internet of Things progresses, gaining a 360-degree profile of consumers will become even easier. In the fast-moving world of retail, companies may have to constantly review their strategies for gathering information on consumers in order to stay ahead of competition. But they will also need to navigate ethical grey areas. Read More
Event Presentation | December 4, 2014 Premium New and Emerging Technologies Retailers Will Use to Market Their Brands and Products• Lower-income families spend more of their household budgets on energy and are more likely to spend any savings • Biggest category beneficiaries: Entertainment, restaurants, furniture and other home-related items and discount retailers Read More
