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 »
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 »
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 »
My Top Five Takeaways from Shoptalk 2018
The show was fantastic! So many people, so much information, so many companies. There was no way you could consume all of it. After spending 4 days in Las Vegas at Shoptalk 2018, I have put together my 5 biggest takeaways from the conference. Brick and Mortar Retail Isn’t Dead With all the doom and… Read more »