Customer Data Platform (CDP)

Brand owners must understand what is being said about their own brands, as well as their competitors' products, in order to succeed. These insights can then be used to respond quickly to both positive and negative online activities, so strategies can be developed to shape consumer perception. Here, two seasoned experts divulge the market strategies that can help drive business growth.

Consumer goods need to be represented consistently, in potentially thousands of different places online. A new GS1 US standard, developed in collaboration with 18 companies, including Best Buy, Bing, CNET, eBay, Google, and Walmart, offers a common approach for listing and classifying products across all e-commerce platforms.

Retailers like Whole Foods and Wal-Mart are even joining for a piece of the grocery delivery service category. So, CGT sat down with Richard Demb, CEO and Founder of Abe's Market (named by Forbes as one of The 25 Most Innovative Consumer and Retail Brands) to discuss the growing online grocery shopping trend, and how to differentiate from the competition.

Jennifer Lacks Kaplan, principal, for Deloitte discusses how the CIO is emerging as a key leader in driving the marketing transformation required for CG companies to win in today's digital marketplace.

Facebook joins IBM Commerce THINKLab to help accelerate collaborative innovation for clients.

The 2015 Retail & Consumer Goods Analytics Summit came to a close last week, but the conference is still making quite a buzz in Twitter. When it comes to data and analytics, the two industries have a lot of opinions. Here is a snapshot of the content, comments, personalities and more, from #RCAS15.

There is a social data revolution going on in the retail and consumer goods industries, but it is only worth as much as it has an impact on decisions.

Supply Chain Insights Founder, Lora Cecere explains how mid-market companies master the art of data-driven processes.