"This course contains essential information for retail business operation. I learned tools to measure the key to success of business objectives."
-- Stanley Woo, IT Manager, Staples Canada
"This was a great seminar with knowledgeable presenters. Well worthwhile!"
-- Bob Knights, MGR Solutions Delivery, Comark
"This session has shown me how we can contribute in strategy discussions with the business and guide and advise them on retail trends and selecting the right technology."
-- Mithula Sachi, IT Project Manager, Holt Renfrew
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View a webex presentation given by RIT Experts' President, Rena Granofsky, detailing our company's innovative Educational Seminar Series. Click on the image below to watch!
Retail IT Growth Seminars
The paradigm changing, retail specific RIT Growth Seminars address several simple questions:
- How can Retail IT Departments expand their impact, broaden their technology capabilities, and increase their technology spend while boosting company growth, customer satisfaction, and profitability?
- How can Retail IT Department personnel grow into active participants in the growth and success of their retail companies?
Using highly advanced and effective training methodologies, RIT Experts has developed a series of educational seminars to provide the tools and techniques that will allow Retail IT department personnel to grow and participate in decision making at the highest levels of their organizations.
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Retail IT Impact Maximizer
This highly focused one-day seminar for retailers is targeted at helping IT organizations communicate effectively with their business partners to initiate technology-based solutions to drive growth on many levels:
- Growth in the knowledge and communication skills of the IT department
- Growth in the respect for what IT can bring to the table
- Growth in corporate revenues, profits, and customer loyalty
In this one-day seminar, you will learn:
- Key retail, consumer, and technology trends and their relevance to your company
- What retail strategy really means and how to determine your company's strategy
- How to map the landscape of technology initiatives to your company's strategy
- How to partner with key decision makers to drive new strategy based technology initiatives
As an added bonus, all attendees to the Retail IT Impact Maximizer seminar will be provided with RIT Experts' proprietary Strategy Mapping Accelerator Framework. After many years of doing best practice research, conducting systems audits and performing systems searches, RIT Experts has developed this Framework to enable IT Departments to streamline the process of developing credible and compelling IT Roadmaps.
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Retail IT Strategy Coaching
Once you have attended an RIT seminar, you are ready to work collaboratively with your business colleagues, recommend IT initiatives to enhance the delivery of the corporate strategy, and build corporate revenues and profits. You have the skills, but even the best laid plans can go awry. Sometimes we all need a little support.
To address this, RIT Experts has developed a cost-effective coaching program. Fours hours of telephone coaching will be delivered each month by a seasoned Retail IT expert, to discuss your challenges and help you achieve your objectives.
The coaching is delivered in blocks of six months, with monthly renewal thereafter; and allotted any way you want: all in one block, an hour each week, and so on.
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Retail IT Maximizer Collaborative Workshop
This one-day interactive Collaborative Workshop is ideal for participants of the Retail IT Impact Maximizer Seminar who want to share their Impact Maximizer experience with their partners at their own retail organizations. It provides both business and IT users with the framework to enable the collaborative development of strategy-based technology roadmaps and IT investment plans in order to achieve corporate goals, revenues, profits, and success. The workshop is customized for each retailer and conducted at the retailer's offices.
The workshop is designed to promote collaborative discussion between Business and IT Professionals, and to enhance both the Business and IT visions in how technology initiatives can contribute to the corporate strategy, revenues, profits, and success.
This one-day interactive workshop and seminar address the following topics:
- Key retail, consumer, and technology trends and their relevance to your company
- A consumer behavior-based framework to identify your company's retail strategy
- Mapping the landscape of technology initiatives to your company's strategy to achieve your strategic goals
The workshop begins with a presentation by the retailer to the team on their corporate strategy and goals. The RIT team then presents key retail, consumer, and technology trends and facilitates discussion on their relevance to the company.
Next, the RIT team will present a consumer-based strategy framework, and facilitate discussion to collaboratively map the retailer's strategy on the framework. They will then present the RIT Proprietary Landscape of Technology initiatives, gather consensus on areas of focus, and guide the team in mapping selected initiatives to the strategy framework, in order to achieve corporate goals.
Who should attend: CEO, CFO, VP/Director Business Unit (Merchandising, Marketing, Operations, Logistics, Customer Service), IT Steering Committee, CIO, IT Director, IT Manager, IT Project Leader, IT Business Analyst.
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