Lisa Johnston

Editorial Director

Author Profile

Lisa Johnston is the Editorial Director of CGT. She joined the brand in 2020. Her journalism background includes writing for both business and consumer audiences, specializing in technology, retail, and consumer goods. In addition to speaking at a range of industry events and sharing editorial expertise as a media panelist, she's served as a judge for such programs as the Consumer Technology Hall of Fame and the Jesse H. Neal Awards.

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ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

11/28/2022
You’re Doing It Wrong: 3 Most Common Cloud Strategy Mistakes
Are you making these blunders when it comes to developing your cloud strategy? There’s a good chance you probably are.

Lisa Johnston
11/28/2022
Lifetime Brands, Traeger & Whole Foods Sign On As Early Adopters of AWS Supply Chain
The cloud app is designed to increase supply chain visibility by combining and analyzing data across multiple supply chain systems to provide manufacturers and retailers with real-time information.

Lisa Johnston
11/27/2022
PepsiCo Building Out Pepviz Data Science Practice
Just over a year after bringing its Pepviz data science practice to retailers, PepsiCo remains bullish on its potential to add value to operators across all retail spaces.

Lisa Johnston
11/27/2022
L'Oréal Turns to NLP to Elevate Finance Insight Delivery
The technology is designed to quickly provide language and visual insights to 2,000 users around the world, enabling L'Oréal’s financial controllers to more easily identify business-driving insights.

Lisa Johnston
11/21/2022
CPGs Say Retailers Swinging Back To Old OTIF Expectations
Retailers are returning to their pre-pandemic service expectations, according to new research from McKinsey & Co, presenting challenges for consumer goods companies navigating the inflationary environment.

Lisa Johnston
11/17/2022
Tyson and Johnsonville Lay Out For Nimble Robots
The two food companies have both invested in Soft Robotics, a tech provider that marries AI, 3D vision soft grasping technology.

Lisa Johnston
11/16/2022
How Kimberly-Clark Is Modeling Its RGM Strategy Like an Innovation Pipeline
Kimberly-Clark is developing an RGM pipeline strategy that more closely resembles its approach to product innovation, as it continuously improves in-market execution.

Lisa Johnston
11/13/2022
Get a Look at Amazon’s Newest Prime Air Delivery Drone
While all consumer goods companies are challenged by the last mile, few are taking their ambitions as high as Amazon.

Lisa Johnston
11/10/2022
C-Suite Roadmap: Consumer Goods Forum Issues Guide for Operationalizing Net Zero
Effecting real change without greenwashing is a harder task for CPGs bogged down by legacy processes, with some research indicating that many firms will fall short of their goals.

Lisa Johnston
10/31/2022
Unilever Will Be Almost Entirely In the Cloud This Year
The acceleration of moving its data, applications, and network technologies to the cloud are expected to unlock myriad digital and innovation opportunities including real-time IoT performance data from its factory digital twins.

Lisa Johnston