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IDG Contributor Network: Walmart.com’s transformation: Too little, much too late
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•By Evan Schuman This month, BusinessWeek took a look at how Jet.com is doing in its effort to transform Walmart.com. My conclusion: The biggest obstacle to Walmart.com being successful is Walmart itself. This is hardly news to readers of this blog, as we have been skeptical about Jet’s odds against the Bentonville behemoth and have…
IDG Contributor Network: Are you encouraging your employees to take security risks?
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•By Robert C. Covington By now, I suspect that most everyone is familiar with the Wells Fargo scandal. For those that have been living under a rock for a few days, approximately 5,300 Wells Fargo employees have lost their jobs because they were opening fraudulent accounts in the names of unsuspecting customers in an effort…
IDG Contributor Network: Amazon’s wacky workweek hours experiment
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•By Evan Schuman Amazon has never shied away from an experiment and, indeed, many of Amazon’s nontraditional business processes are now SOP for everyone else. Therefore, its experiments are worth watching. A new one surfaced this week, an effort to offer 30-hour workweeks “for select employees.” As described by The Washington Post, “the program will…