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Retail Business & Technology Expo, New Spring Leaves ...

Last week I attended the Retail Business and Technology Expo in London. It?s the second year of the show. Their strategy to drive traffic appears to be paying off ? registered attendees were reportedly up significantly.? Floor space was at a premium (vendors that typically buy whole pads at NRF in January had almost miniscule booths by comparison ? in a capacity venue).

There was one particular thing that caught my attention and inspired me to make the long haul from Denver to London for a two-day conference. It was the combination of ?business? and ?technology? in the conference?s title. In an age when technology increasingly lies at the heart of almost everything that retailers want to accomplish in engaging consumers, it was refreshing to see a conference focus on bringing the two together.

So what did I learn from this event? One, it pulls a lot of Americans, much like NRF?s big show manages to pull a lot of Europeans. I saw a lot of familiar faces at the event ? established US players alongside companies looking to break out into the European market by establishing a toe-hold at the London show.

But it also drove home to me that ?omni-channel? as a term is here to stay. It was whole-heartedly embraced by attendees and speakers alike, with a fairly common definition: the stuff that comes after you realize that just enabling simple, one-off process that help customers cross channels isn?t enough. And the retailers who spoke at the conference graciously shared their experiences as they struggle with building cross-channel processes.

In very general terms, European retailers seem to have more challenges than American retailers, in part because they have a more established version of a channel that is very immature in the US ? home delivery. Home delivery is not a universal capability, by any means, but it does serve as more of a consideration for omni-channel in European cities than it does in most US cities, outside of New York, and maybe Boston and Chicago. It doesn?t mean that European retailers have bigger challenges, or even significantly different challenges, when it comes to enabling cross-channel shopping behavior, but it does mean their challenges are maybe slightly more complex because they have more touchpoints for consumers.

However, one thing that also came across loud and clear was that customer centricity remains at the heart of cross-channel. All of these efforts that retailers are struggling to align to a cross-channel reality come at the insistence of shoppers, who persist in crashing across channels with no regard to retailers? constraints in supporting cross-channel behavior. So whether it is a grudging, after-the-fact acknowledgement of the customer as central to the business, or an enthusiastic embrace of same, retailers ranging from McDonald?s to Tommy Hilfiger demonstrated at the conference that customer centricity is key to unlocking omni-channel value ? when you place customer considerations seriously at the heart of your strategy, you can create truly innovative solutions to customer problems that you maybe didn?t even know existed. And that is a straight path to differentiation ? and long-term customer value.

So I hope the show continues its success, and grows into a real intersection point between technology and the business ? reflected not only in the discussions and presentations but also in the cross-section of attendees. A technologist who can speak business is valuable. But increasingly, a business owner who can speak technology is meeting a basic job requirement. Any help out there in the industry that provides an opportunity to consider both together ? business process as well as enabling technologies ? will only become more important as cross-channel capabilities grow.

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Think about what your call centers service costs you now every day, week or month; or year for that matter. Now slice that number nearly in half without compromising on quality. This is around a good average number that you can expect when comparing the costs of the service when you decide to be smart and outsource your call center service.

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Not just for the birds: Human-made noise has ripple effects on plants, too

ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2012) ? A growing body of research shows that birds and other animals change their behavior in response to humanmade noise, such as the din of traffic or the hum of machinery. But human clamor doesn't just affect animals. Because many animals also pollinate plants or eat or disperse their seeds, human noise can have ripple effects on plants too, finds a new study.

In cases where noise has ripple effects on long-lived plants like trees, the consequences could last for decades, even after the source of the noise goes away, says lead author Clinton Francis of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina.

The study appears in the March 21 issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

In previous studies, Francis and colleagues found that some animals increase in numbers near noisy sites, while others decline. But could animals' different responses to humanmade noise have indirect effects on plants, too?

Because they can't move, many plants rely on birds and other animals to deliver pollen from one flower to the next, or to disperse their seeds.

To find out what animal responses to noise might mean for plants, the researchers conducted a series of experiments from 2007 to 2010 in the Bureau of Land Management's Rattlesnake Canyon Wildlife Area in northwestern New Mexico.

The region is home to thousands of natural gas wells, many of which are coupled with noisy compressors for extracting the gas and transporting it through pipelines. The compressors roar and rumble day and night, every day of the year.

The advantage of working in natural gas sites is they allow scientists to study noise and its effects on wildlife without many of the confounding factors often associated with noisy areas like roadways or cities, such as pollution from artificial light and chemicals or collisions with cars.

To find out what animal responses to humanmade noise might mean for plants, first the researchers did an experiment using patches of artificial plants designed to mimic a common red wildflower in the area called scarlet gilia.

Each patch consisted of five artificial plants with three "flowers" each -- microcentrifuge tubes wrapped in red electrical tape -- which were filled with a fixed amount of sugar water for nectar. To help in estimating pollen transfer within and between the patches, the researchers also dusted the flowers of one plant per patch with artificial pollen, using a different color for each patch.

Din levels at noisy patches were similar to a highway heard from 500 meters away, Francis explained. When the researchers compared the number of pollinator visits at noisy and quiet sites, they found that one bird species in particular -- the black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) -- made five times more visits to noisy sites than quiet ones.

"Black-chinned hummingbirds may prefer noisy sites because another bird species that preys on their nestlings, the western scrub jay, tends to avoid those areas," Francis said.

Pollen transfer was also more common in the noisy sites. If more hummingbird visits and greater pollen transfer translate to higher seed production for the plants, the results suggest that "hummingbird-pollinated plants such as scarlet gilia may indirectly benefit from noise," Francis explained.

Another set of experiments revealed that noise may indirectly benefit some plants, but is bad news for others.

In a second series of experiments at the same study site, the researchers set out to find out what noise might mean for tree seeds and seedlings, using one of the dominant trees in the area -- the pi?on pine (Pinus edulis).

Pi?on pine seeds that aren't plucked from their cones fall to the ground and are eaten by birds and other animals. To find out if noise affected the number of pi?on pine seeds that animals ate, the researchers scattered pi?on pine seeds underneath 120 pi?on pine trees in noisy and quiet sites, using a motion-triggered camera to figure out what animals took the seeds.

After three days, a number of animals were spotted feeding on the seeds, including mice, chipmunks, squirrels, birds and rabbits. But two animals in particular differed between quiet and noisy sites -- mice, which preferred noisy sites, and western scrub jays, which avoided them altogether.

Pi?on pine seeds that are eaten by mice don't survive the passage through the animal's gut, Francis explained, so the boost in mouse populations near noisy sites could be bad news for pine seedlings in those areas.

In contrast, a single western scrub jay may take hundreds to thousands of seeds, only to hide them in the soil to eat later in the year. The seeds they fail to relocate will eventually germinate, so the preference of western scrub jays for quiet areas means that pi?on pines in those areas are likely to benefit.

In keeping with their seed results, the researchers counted the number of pi?on pine seedlings and found that they were four times as abundant in quiet sites compared with noisy ones.

It may take decades for a pi?on pine to grow from a seedling into a full-grown tree, Francis said. This means the consequences of noise may last longer than we thought. "Fewer seedlings in noisy areas might eventually mean fewer mature trees, but because pi?on pines are so slow-growing the shift could have gone undetected for years, he explained.

"Fewer pi?on pine trees would mean less critical habitat for the hundreds of species that depend on them for survival," he added.

Other authors of the study include Catherine Ortega, most recently of Fort Lewis College, and Alexander Cruz and Nathan Kleist of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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1. Francis, C., N. Kleist, et al. Noise pollution alters ecological services: enhanced pollination and disrupted seed dispersal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2012

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