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Entertainment Retailer Expects Store Data Analysis to Increase Sales by $1.8 Million

Virgin Entertainment Group operates Virgin Megastores, one of the largest entertainment media retail specialty chains in the United States. Virgin wanted to increase the effectiveness of its store managers and product buyers by giving them flexible tools to analyze inventory, sales, and store-traffic data. The company considered mainframe-based software, but...

Tags: Data Analysis, Point-of-sale, Microsoft Corp., Entertainment, Virgin Entertainment Group, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Databases, Marketing, Management, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Please no "yapping away" on Skype in the air

The Associated Press takes a look at the prospects for airline passengers to use Skype once in-flight Internet access becomes less of a novelty and more of an expectation. That transition, incidentally, is expected to significantly progress in this next year. AP reporter Anick...

Tags: Associated Press, Skype Technologies S.A., Internet, Business Structures, Finance, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-24

CIO Sessions: 1-800 Flowers blossoms with new technologies

In a CIO Vision Series interview, Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800 Flowers talks with me about what it takes to run the company’s daily IT operations, across a network of more than 9,000 florists. Today, about 75 percent of 1-800 Flowers transactions are...

Tags: CIO, Environment, 1-800-FLOWERS, Web 2.0, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-04

IP Network Helps Virgin Megastores Enhance the Retail Experience

Like other music and entertainment retailers, Virgin Megastores is endeavoring to cope with the decline in music sales across the industry; customers are not purchasing as many CDs and DVDs as previously. As a result the Megastores are challenged to operate as efficiently as possible and to develop new strategies...

Tags: Network, AT&T Corp., IP, IP Network, Virgin Megastores, Intellectual Property, Network Technology, Networking, Outsourcing, Research & Development, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Case studies 2007-05-23

Tech lawsuits: Is it time for a "U.S. District Court of Technology" with its own bench?

Somewhere in the back of my mind, the fact that I have seen multiple news headlines having to do with new or ongoing lawsuits in the tech industry was gnawing at me. So, I decided to search ZDNet on the words "infringement" and "lawsuit" to see what came up. Here,...

Tags: General, Legal

Blog posts 2006-11-07

CIO Sessions: Virgin Entertainment's Robert Fort

As part of our CIO Session video series I talked with Virgin Entertainment Group CIO Robert Fort. He told me that risk-taking and innovation are at the heart of his company’s culture, driven from the top by company Chairman Richard Branson, whos forward and unique way of thinking permeates...

Tags: Robert Fort, Virgin Entertainment

Blog posts 2006-10-13

Virgin Entertainment Group CIO: Robert Fort

CIO of Virgin Entertainment Group, Robert Fort says that risk-taking and innovation are at the heart of his company’s culture. Fort is responsible for the switch from analog CD listening stations to digital kiosks in Virgin Megastores where listeners can now browse the entire store inventory online. Fort talks...

Tags: CIOSessions

Blog posts 2006-10-10

Virgin Entertainment Group CIO: Robert Fort

CIO of Virgin Entertainment Group, Robert Fort says that risk-taking and innovation are at the heart of his company’s culture. Fort is responsible for the switch from analog CD listening stations to digital kiosks in Virgin Megastores where listeners can now browse the entire store inventory online. Fort talks...

Tags: Virgin Entertainment, CIO, Fort, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2006-10-10

Virgin Entertainment Group CIO: Robert Fort

CIO of Virgin Entertainment Group, Robert Fort says that risk-taking and innovation are at the heart of his company's culture. Fort is responsible for the switch from analog CD listening stations to digital kiosks in Virgin Megastores where listeners can now browse the entire store inventory online. Fort talks...

Tags: Virgin Entertainment, CIO, Fort, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Robert Fort

Videos 2006-10-10

Robert Fort, CIO Virgin Entertainment Group

Dan Farber:Robert thanks for joining me.Robert Fort: Well, thanks for having me.Dan Farber:Virgin is a very large and diverse company based in the U.K., and you’re CIO for Virgin Entertainment Group. What precisely is in that group?Robert Fort:Virgin Entertainment Group is predominantly the Virgin Megastores here in the United States.Dan...

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Blog posts 2006-10-10

Robert Fort, CIO Virgin Entertainment Group

Dan Farber: Robert thanks for joining me. Robert Fort: Well, thanks for having me. Dan Farber: Virgin is a very large and diverse company based in the U.K., and you’re CIO for Virgin Entertainment Group. What precisely is in that...

Tags: Innovation, Virgin Entertainment, Risk, CD, Product, Customer, Kiosk, Sales, Store, Technology, Internet, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2006-10-10

Webcast: Innovating within a Retail Industry Disrupted by the Web

CIO of Virgin Entertainment Group, Robert Fort says that risk-taking and innovation are at the heart of his company's culture. Fort is responsible for the switch from analog CD listening stations to digital kiosks in Virgin Megastores where listeners can now browse the entire store inventory online. Fort talks with...

Tags: CIO, Fort, Leadership, Management, Strategy, Web, Webcast

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