wal-mart in comment and analysis
Colin Cobain
CIO Profile He is challenging Wal-Mart for the mantle of the world's best retail IT function. Colin Cobain joined Tesco in 2001 and is now group IT director for the world's biggest retail IT function outside of Wal-Mart, tasked with setting and managing the... [06 Jun 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: How the iPhone changed the world
Comment Even the distribution network got a makeover - the device will only be sold through Cingular and Apple stores and websites, not through big name channel stores such as Wal-Mart. When Apple unveiled the iPhone, it set the whole mobile industry... [12 Mar 2007]
CEO and CIO still don't see eye to eye
Comment With the exception of some techie leaders like Ned Johnson at Fidelity, Fred Smith at FedEx or David Glass at Wal-Mart, chief executives perceived IT/BT (I now refer to information technology as business technology, or BT) as an important... [01 Mar 2007]
Leader: Will the iPhone shake-up the mobile world?
Leader The Verizon exec also said Apple's distribution plans could have put its partners - retail giants such as Wal-Mart - at a disadvantage. When Apple launched the iPhone in the US it didn't share the love - it signed an exclusive deal with Cingular... [29 Jan 2007]
Brampton Factor: CIO ideology
Comment Perhaps the most damning is the evidence that Wal-Mart stores suck wealth out of the areas around them. Employees are, in the mass, reduced in status and wealth, especially by any company that emulates Wal-Mart. [16 Jan 2007]
Jonathan Steel's Blog: Is Microsoft growing up?
Comment The world's favourite (alleged) monopolist has hired Kevin Turner from Wal-Mart to be its new COO after three years without anybody in that position. So the IT industry's Peter Pan is finally leaving Neverland for Wal-Street. [09 Aug 2005]
The McCue Interview: Dell CIO Randy Mott
Comment But then if anyone is equipped to handle the job it is Mott, who cut his teeth as CIO for the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart, where he worked for six years before joining Dell. Mott has come a long way since studying for a mathematics degree at... [09 Aug 2005]
Leader: Dell CIO defection is no knockout blow by HP
Leader Mott is widely regarded as one of the world's top CIOs, having almost single-handedly transformed Wal-Mart's supply chain before moving onto Dell five years ago where he has continually squeezed cost out of the PC manufacturer's direct supply... [13 Jul 2005]
Leader: Appeal to CIOs' business sense
Leader Of course, RFID had a little help, with entities such as Wal-Mart demanding their suppliers get involved - but Wal-Mart's CIO didn't have such a mandate to help him make up his mind. Grid. Linux. RFID. [28 Apr 2005]
Why are Oracle and SAP fighting over Retek?
Comment Another major technology shift expected to hit retailers in the coming years is radio frequency identification, or RFID, which is at the core of a next-generation bar code system that Wal-Mart Stores, Target and other big guns are now testing. [10 Mar 2005]
Before you roll out RFID... read this
Comment High-profile retail supply chain RFID projects currently underway - such as Wal-Mart in the US, Tesco in the UK and Metro in Germany - have brought plenty of attention to the technology. RFID technology could make your business more efficient - or... [20 Jan 2005]
Leader: Retailers, be brave with IT
Leader Meanwhile rivals such as Tesco and Wal-Mart-owned Asda have prospered over the past 10 years. The tales of Wal-Mart's global supply chain are legendary and it would seem that, while not all Asda's success is down to this - much of the last decade's... [20 Oct 2004]
Leader: Your company stretches wider than you think
Leader The way Tesco, Wal-Mart and others are approaching this hot topic is considered by contributor Danny Bradbury here. There was a time when running a business meant treating your customers and staff well. [21 Sep 2004]
RFID: It's no supply chain saviour - not yet anyway
Comment However, Wal-Mart has already admitted that several suppliers have been unable to meet interim deadlines for RFID deployment, raising questions about the problems associated with the technology. Perhaps the most discussed project due to its sheer... [08 Sep 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.05.04
Round-Up Major retailers on both sides of the pond are trialling the chips now with Wal-Mart, House of Fraser, Marks and Spencer and Tesco all looking at how to use the technology. When one thinks of shopping malls one naturally thinks of zombies and not... [21 May 2004]
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