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Unprecedented change has been the byword for the Food and Drug Retail markets for the last 5 years. Consumers, are increasingly demanding, foreign retailers have entered UK markets, major brands have consolidated, new regulation and technologies have started to reshape the marketplace.
With all of this uncertainty our consultants have been working closely with clients to help them understand the implications. Developing appropriate approaches and organisational responses to manage the business and technology risks and put in place the necessary implementation programmes in a timely and effective way.
Our consultants are beginning to work with clients on innovative collaboration strategies – both upstream and downstream to enable significant inroads to be made in creating shareholder value. This includes, radical enhancements to electronic data interchange which has revolutionised invoicing, message exchange orders and inventory systems enabling costs reductions for the business.
Global telecommunications has undergone fundamental change of the type not seen in most industries. A number of players have made substantial plays for position with mergers such as AOL and Time Warner creating massive market dominance over several traditional sectors and yet at the same time, we see others adopting a ‘wait and see’ approach. Time is running out for those who have yet to make key strategic decisions/investments. With the emergence of this new economy which embraces traditional network services and integrates the new network applications, such as Voice over Internet Protocol, unified messaging, virtual private networks and Internet Protocol streaming – new competencies both business and technology (web services and software/content) are required to exploit what will be a massive new economic sector.
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