Technology Innovation

Digital technology has had a tremendous impact on the way companies do business today, from enabling direct interactions with end consumers, to providing mobile communications to field sales organizations, and more. However, it's not enough to just put the word "digital" in front of existing processes.

Although technologies, competition and consumer expectations are evolving at hyper-speed, business applications are struggling to keep up. To seize the digital opportunity, consumer goods companies need to fundamentally rethink how applications should be built and deployed. To keep up, follow these three new strategies for application development.

International Data Corporation (IDC) kicks off its IDC FutureScape series of more than 30 on-demand Web conferences. Find out what the IDC's ten predictions for worldwide digital transformation are, covered in one of the first web conferences.

Lack of infrastructure, unfriendly environmental conditions and a shortage of skilled labor, are just some of the obstacles consumer goods (CG) companies face when expanding into new geographies. However, leading CG companies are taking advantage of this opportunity by leveraging innovative technology solutions to increase sales by up to 8 percent, reach customers much faster and reduce ordering costs by nearly 80 percent. Heres how they do it.

CGT announced the winners of its annual Business & Technology Leadership Awards during an awards ceremony at the 2015 Consumer Goods Business & Technology Leadership Conference. The awards recognize consumer goods companies for transformational business and technology initiatives in the areas of supply chain, customer management and mid-market growth.

The partnership is expected to provide next gen business intelligence and analytics solutions.

Walmart told investors total net sales growth will be relatively flat for fiscal year 2016, in part to its investments in new technologies, including e-commerce and digital capabilities. Find out what cutting-edge digital and supply chain improvements Walmart is making.

Armour's COO/CFO will be step down in February 2016, leaving the athletic apparel and equipment company on the hunt for their next CFO.