Category Archives: Guest blog

Guest Blog: My Retail Assist Work Placement

My name is Sawan Patel, I’m currently 18 years old and from Leicester. I attend the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy at Solihull College in Birmingham. This is a unique Level 3 BTEC Course (in enterprise and entrepreneurship). As a student … Continue reading

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Guest Blog: The Importance of Local Trading

By Louise Tillotson Now more than ever, local businesses and their customers need to work together to help tackle the nation’s deficit at a local, actionable level. Although grass-roots activity may seem small in the context of global macroeconomics, it … Continue reading

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Guest Blog: Top 5 Retailer FAQs on Mobile Payment

By Michael Koploy, Software Advice According to US research advisory Gartner, mobile payments may be the next big thing for retailers. The firm predicted 38 percent growth of mobile payment users in 2011, totaling 141 million. While this may seem like … Continue reading

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Guest Blog: Retail and Cinema Chain IT Similarities and Differences

By Dave Wilson, Head of IT Operations at Vue Having previously worked within the IT departments of large retail businesses, I can say that there is not a huge difference between the IT discipline there and the one in my … Continue reading

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Guest Blog – IT and the Business

By Martin Schofield, Retail Operations Director at Harvey Nichols I become increasingly frustrated as my career continues with the constant pre-occupation that some corners of the IT community have with ‘business’ integration. The mere fact that the phrase “IT and … Continue reading

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Guest blog – The future of cinema, a personal Vue

By Roland Jones, IT Director Vue Cinemas You may not have noticed it, but we are in the middle of a revolution… a cinema revolution. In the next 2 years, the way that films are presented to the public in … Continue reading

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