Why You Must Design Your Retail Technology Deployments—Not Just Plan Them Plan vs Design Webster’s dictionary defines Plan as “to arrange a method or scheme beforehand for any work, enterprise, or proceeding”. Webster defines Design as “to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the… Read more »
Defining Resources Required for a Successful Retail Technology Deployment
Defining Resources Required for a Successful Retail Technology Deployment You know that old saying, “It takes a village to raise a child”? Well, I say “It takes an army to have a successful Retail Technology Deployment”. It can be staggering the number of people that need to be involved in even a seemingly small… Read more »
Key Considerations for Developing Your Retail Technology Deployment Scope Definition
Key Considerations for Developing Your Retail Technology Deployment Scope Definition It seems like a no-brainer that you must clearly define scope when working on your retail technology deployment. I’m constantly surprised at how many retailers do not take the time to fully define up front. At best, retailers usually define which stores are included… Read more »
How to Conduct Retail Technology Deployment Design Workshops
How to Conduct Retail Technology Deployment Design Workshops When preparing for your retail technology deployments, a great way to facilitate and organize the development of the Deployment Design is to conduct a Design Workshop with the core Project Team. Either, an experienced Deployment Designer can be brought in to facilitate the discussion and fully document… Read more »
Top 9 Tips for a Successful Retail Technology Deployment
I absolutely love retail technology deployments! Why? Because they are so challenging. I’ve been in IT for almost 30 years. And have done just about every type of deployment you can imagine – business application rollouts, infrastructure replacement, upgrade, bug patches, and new installations, desktop refreshes, software upgrades, and on and on. All of them are challenging… Read more »
Items Often Overlooked Before and During Technology Deployments
These Create Unhappy Users, Technicians, and Cost Money! We have all been there. Regardless of your capacity during the Technology Deployment, we have all experienced the pain of things not being designed, planned, or thought through before going live with the deployment. Some of these things should be addressed during the design stage, yet a lot… Read more »
The Components of a Retail Deployment Design
A Retail Deployment Design is a document that outlines exactly how all tasks included in the Retail Deployment Plan will be executed. It is a written document that covers every aspect of the Who, What, When, Where, and How of the deployment. The collection of all these details are usually collected as part of the… Read more »
Things That Can Derail Even a Mature Technology Deployment
This group has been waiting for a long time to get these new machines. Their old machines are very long in the tooth. Planning has been going on for months, meetings, testing, back and forth. The deployment was scheduled for the 4th quarter of last year, but supply problems from the vendor caused delays in… Read more »
Scheduling Retail Technology Deployments Stressing You Out?
. Imagine you work for a national retailer and your boss calls you into their office to give you a new project. They need to quickly update all the wireless infrastructure in the entire portfolio of 2,000 stores and you have six months to complete! You have to complete a site survey, implementation review, configure… Read more »
The Financial Benefits of Designing Retail Technology Deployments
When I initially start talking to people about designing their retail technology points, they very quickly get to the question of how does it benefit my bottom line? The biggest impact of designing retail deployments is that it eliminates the unknowns. And provides a mechanism to conduct dress rehearsals for the deployment and all related… Read more »