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- 7-Eleven's precious shelf space
- 7-Eleven's precious shelf spaceThe problem with this approach is that......oftentimes things aren't given enough of a chance. Companies are too quick to write something off in the name of speed and having new revenue streams. The TV show Cheers was near the bottom of Nielsen ratings in its...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Consumables, Shelf-space, shelf space, 7-Eleven Inc., Food Products
- Discussion threads 2005-08-16
- 7-Eleven's precious shelf space
- Baseline Magazine has an interview with 7-Eleven CEO James Keyes on how the company uses data from its point-of-sale systems to spot trends, find growth opportunities and control shelf space. 7-Eleven's store are like a big, distributed research facility, where it can test market ideas for different products in different...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., shelf space
- Blog posts 2005-08-16
- 7-Eleven rings in cell phone service
- 7-Eleven rings in cell phone serviceIf ever the government needed to step in, this is it.Look, I understand there is a demand/need for this product, but as usual the lowest income folks end up paying the WORST possible price for it.To add to it, the minutes sold are NOT the...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government, 7-Eleven Inc., cell phone service, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2004-04-27
- Australia's Largest Convenience Store Chain Selects IBM to Roll-Out New Retail System
- 7-Eleven Stores Pty Ltd is an Australian company that operates 297 7-Eleven stores in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. It employs more than 200 people and has annual sales of approximately $850 million. The company plans to implement a New Store System that will speed service at the register,...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., IBM eServer, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- HP Case Study: 7-Eleven, Inc.
- 7-Eleven, Inc. is the premier name and largest chain in the convenience retailing industry. The challenges were growing revenues through reliable delivery, ensuring uptime of retail operations, enabling rapid and reliable business change through automated management and reducing IT operating costs, while improving operational efficiency. The solutions include HP OpenView...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., HP OpenView, Utility Computing, It Management, It service Management
- Case studies
- 7-Eleven Inc. Speeds Deployment and Consolidates Servers With VMware Virtual Infrastructure
- 7-Eleven, Inc. is the largest chain in the convenience retailing industry. As with many organizations, 7-Eleven's process for deploying new servers was lengthy and costly, frequently hindering the allocation of server resources for development and testing. Also, server resources to develop and test applications were limited, increasing the number of...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., VMware Inc., Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- 7-Eleven Chooses Live Meeting for Web Conferences With Field Staff; Expects 500% ROI
- For the 700 field consultants supporting the more than 5,800 convenience stores operated by 7-Eleven and its franchisees across the United States and Canada, every Tuesday is meeting day. 7-Eleven gathers its staff at divisional offices to attend a weekly videoconference broadcast from headquarters. Looking to reduce travel time and...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., ROI, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Microsoft Office, Web Conferencing, Office Suites, Software, Internet
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Additional Resources
- The open source opportunity in web advertising
- The open source opportunity in web advertisingFireFox Beta 1 was issued...... in November, 2007. If that final 3.0 is a version number, I don't think the entry comes from 2006.You might ask if the person using FireFox could remember and report when he first downloaded 3.0.Microsoft sells advertising...... and...
- Tags: Sales strategy, open source opportunity, Web Advertising, sales, security, open source, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Fourth quarter IT hiring outlook: The helpdesk is hot
- Eleven percent of CIOs plan to add IT workers in the fourth quarter, 3 percent plan cuts and help desk and technical support are the hot categories as customer and user support trumps projects focused on growth. Those are a few of the notable takeaways in an...
- Tags: Hiring, CIO, Information Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Help Desk, Call Centers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Convenience Store Chain Enhances Security, Boosts Mobility With New Operating System
- Seven-Eleven Japan operates the largest chain of convenience stores in Japan. With its North American subsidiary 7-Eleven, the company operates or franchises approximately 32,300 stores worldwide. The Seven-Eleven Japan sales staff is highly mobile, often working outside of the main office. The company wanted to help these remote employees work...
- Tags: Security, Japan, Operating System, Mobility, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, Sales, Marketing, Software
- Case studies 2008-08-21
- Sonos Digital Music System BU150
- Sonos has been around since 2005, when the small company introduced its first multiroom digital music system to glowing reviews (including a CNET.com Editors' Choice Award). The product was comprised of two base stations and a unique for the time remote with a full-color screen that allowed you to wirelessly...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Wi-Fi, ZP120, ZonePlayer ZP120, Sonos
- Product reviews 2008-08-05
- CMDpack (zip)
- CMDpack is a set of eleven command-line programs dedicated to helping solve quick math programs, and some different commands that help you quickly create a file and edit it, or to view a file quickly, or to start a command line search for a program(3-4 times faster than windows search)....
- Tags: Program, File, BLANKsoft, CMDpack, Construction
- Software downloads 2008-06-17
- No, Vista DOESN'T scream past XP in gaming tests
- No, Vista DOESN'T scream past XP in gaming testsok vista doesn't scream past xp but..vista has a lot more to offer with its 64bit OS unlike XP, and when it comes to gaming it doesn't matter how good your computer is if you can run the game on the lowest...
- Tags: Games, Microsoft Windows XP, vista, Microsoft Windows Vista, game, console, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- The newspaper's last stand
- Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...
- Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought Yahoo
- SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought YahooMS shouldn't be allowed to buy any big companiesThey should get their own house in order first, release worthwhile OS's, and put an end to their sick anti-competitive bullying.The world needs free markets and competition to thrive, not one huge monopoly.The more MS can...
- Tags: INTERNET, Kagermann, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Career Transition Specialist Simplifies Voice Communications Through IP Telephony
- DBM's business is to support major employment transitions in both the public and private sectors, often working across its different sites to provide a coherent, nationwide service. With eleven different phone systems in place across fifteen UK sites, they were wasting money, because they had no inter-site calling plan. UK...
- Tags: Telephony, Nortel Networks Corp., IP Telephony, IP, Career Transition Specialist, DBM, Professional Development, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Network Technology, Networking, Career
- Case studies 2008-04-24
- Two robotic jellyfish, AquaJelly and AirJelly
- A Design News editor was lucky enough to watch two robotic jellyfish swim and fly at the Hannover Fair in Germany. These two robots, AquaJelly and AirJelly, made by Germany-based Festo company, are using 8 tentacles based on fish fins for propulsion. The AquaJelly has 11 infrared light-emitting diodes and...
- Tags: Signal, AquaJelly, AirJelly, Festo, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Vista SP1 - Benchmarking round-up
- Given that I've made numerous posts relating to benchmarking Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) on this blog over the past few weeks I thought that many readers would appreciate a single post that pulled together all the individual posts and which drew together the thoughts, findings and conclusions from the individual...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, 32-bit, 64-bit, Benchmarking, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Service Pack, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Remote Desktop Connection, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Fighter Ace 10th Anniversary Edition (exe)
- Welcome to the world of Fighter Ace, a 3D massively multiplayer aerial combat game celebrating its 10th Anniversary Year with a new release now featuring Jets. Strap yourself into the cockpit of any one of over 100 World War II and Korean War vintage fighters and bombers before taking to...
- Tags: Arena, Training, Ketsujin Studios, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- MWC08: Opera Mobile 9.5 running on a Sony Ericsson UIQ device
- MWC08: Opera Mobile 9.5 running on a Sony Ericsson UIQ devicenice but... still need a stylus...has lots of tiny UI widgets that require a stylus to manipulate.Wait for the ZunePhone Kids!The world has learned of yet another earth-shaking deal I have a lot more on the way, we are purchasing...
- Tags: Zunephone, Opera Mobile, Opera Software, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
- Discussion threads 2008-02-17
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