Shaun Kirby

January 26, 2016

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Feb. 2: NRF16 Wrap Up at Live CiscoChat

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Retail’s Big Show offers ideas and insights into the ever-changing industry of retail. This year’s NRF 2016 drew a large and influential group of the most innovative retail leaders. Throughout the show, these leaders held extensive one-on-one conversations and hosted general sessions by some of the industry’s starring professionals. If you missed the show (or […]

January 15, 2016

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Presenting a Roadmap for Digital Transformation at NRF 2016

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Life in the Digital Vortex is challenging—especially for retailers. In an environment where averaged across industries four of the top 10 incumbents will be displaced by digital disruption in...

November 10, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

It’s Time for Dinner: Improving the Quality of Our Food with the Internet of Everything

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It’s almost the holiday season and it’s time for your customers to host that special dinner party, where they can make memories and share stories with loved ones. What if they could also share the story of where that holiday meal came from? This is now possible using the power of the Internet of Everything […]

September 14, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

The Next Step in Your Store Analytics Strategy: Sensor Fusion

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Retail has entered an era of unprecedented competition and accelerated evolution worldwide. Retailers in every category, both brick-and-mortar and online, face larger and more unpredictable threats than ever before, from digitization of goods and distributed manufacturing to autonomous, near-instant delivery, service robots, and online experiences with unprecedented realism, as disruptors such as virtual reality, 3D […]

January 16, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

2015 Predictions: The highest-impact IoE advancements in Retail

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Co-Authored by: Shaun Kirby, CTO, Cisco Consulting Services The IoE promises to revolutionize industries by providing access to a wealth of previously hidden information obtained from a myriad of new connected sensors fused intelligently by novel real-time analytics. Retailers have seen early success by connecting dark assets in stores, warehouses and other venues. This week […]