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This week, retail expert Heidi Csencsits and Parker Avery's change management and training experts, Kathi Toll , LouAnn Villasor , and Carrie Habel discuss training training strategies and tactics for a virtual world.  As with many corporate initiatives, training needs have fundamentally changed. These four retail experts provide insights about how companies must adopt new remote training strategi...

This week, Parker Avery's Change Management leaders, Kathi Toll and Carrie Habel talk about Carrie's incredible career-long experience helping retailers navigate and manage change.  Discover how and why Carrie made the decision to join The Parker Avery Group.  Also, Kathi and Carrie provide their insights into how leaders should recognize their own feelings as well as their teams' to make sure the...

Parker Avery's Chief Analytics Officer, Sam Iosevich , sits down with demand planning expert Leo Greyz to discuss the firm's latest developments in demand analytics for retail and consumer goods companies. Hear about the key drivers pushing advanced demand analytics capabilities far deeper and faster than the industry had ever imagined. Also, get realistic advice from Parker Avery's retail experts...

You don't want to miss the story behind the unbelievable ROI achieved in a mere 8 weeks--to the tune of $8 million.  Parker Avery's pricing leader Josh Pollack and retail expert Heidi Csencsits discuss what made this particular advanced pricing implementation so successful, why pricing solutions can achieve such meaningful results, and several approaches retailers can take to move far beyond their...

In this episode, retail supply chain and logistics experts Lee Whitaker and Rob Oglesby discuss their key takeaways and some surprising findings from the 31st Annual State of Logistics Report®, produced by The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).  Click here for the full report.   Lee and Rob give their perspectives on: The growing importance of 5-G networks on logistics. Key...

Making a career move and joining a new firm in the middle of a pandemic is truly a bold move.  In this episode Senior Manager Deanna Emsley interviews the newest member of The Parker Avery Group's team: Rob Gentry .  Learn about Rob's interesting path into retail, why he chose to work for Parker Avery (after many years in much larger companies), and what his "super power" is.  Learn more about The...

In this episode, I interviewed Parker Avery's CEO, Robert Kaufman , along with inventory and supply chain expert Rob Oglesby to discuss sourcing strategies and actions retailers and consumer brands need to consider as we continue to face highly disruptive supply chains.  We explore considerations such as: How do retailers and consumer brands need to change how they think about and manage their sou...

In this episode, we focus on deep analytics. Parker Avery experts Clay Parnell and Sam Iosevich  discuss how retailers and consumer brands can embrace analytics into their business models to enable cross-functional collaboration and deliver meaningful financial results.  We explore questions like:  While the recent disruptions have put an even stronger focus on integrating digital and physical cha...

Parker Avery experts Clay Parnell ,  Amanda Astrologo , and Rob Oglesby , talk about lessons learned and best practices that have emerged over the past few months in how retailers are handling the huge swings in consumer demand and inventory movements that we have witnessed across all segments of retail due to recent disruptions. Learn more about The Parker Avery Group's retail consulting services...

In this episode, The Parker Avery Group's Change Management Lead  Kathi Toll , along with retail experts  Tricia Gustin  and Heidi Csencsits discuss ways retailers can handle customers and associates coming back into their stores after a major disruption like the COVID-19 pandemic--this week focusing on handling tense or challenging situations.  Learn more about The Parker Avery Group's retail con...

For those retailers that are most impacted by COVID-19 and are either completely shut down or only operating with limited direct to consumer fulfillment, we can’t predict exactly when current conditions will allow re-opening of stores and operations. But it is coming, and it’s imperative to prepare now. How do you effectively re-start your business in a controlled manner, with stores re-opening ba...

During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Parker Avery Group conducted a four-part  webinar series , Reconstructing Retail.  This series covered some important topics and focused on helping our clients and friends in the industry. Throughout this series, we shared our firm's pragmatic thoughts and perspectives, with the understanding that for most of us, the pandemic and its aftermath...

Even as we work to ramp back up, re-open stores, and improve our view of current inventory positions, we need to start developing perspectives of future sales and inventory demand. The ability to predict and react quickly to customer demand is critical, along with having a common demand signal that can help support various functions across retail planning , pricing , and fulfillment . Retailers ca...

Have you considered what type of leadership and support your team will need following a major disruption? Do the traditional leadership and change management models feel outdated to you? Parker Avery's industry experts share tools and frameworks that surpass typical approaches and are more relevant in today's environment so you can confidently guide teams through transformational periods. We provi...

In this episode, The Parker Avery Group's Change Management Lead  Kathi Toll , along with retail experts Tricia Gustin and Heidi Csencsits discuss ways retailers can handle customers and associates coming back into their stores after a major disruption like the COVID-19 pandemic.    You may also like this content: What to Do When You're Expecting ... Customers: Part 2: https://parkeravery.com/podc...