NFC (near field communications) is expected to bring sweeping changes to customer interactions at retail locations. Everything from check-out, to just-in-time couponing, to social networking will be affected. The hope is that NFC will be a great new tool for creating stronger customer loyalty and...

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I knew about the soft launch of the Apple Store app, but it wasn't until yesterday when I happened to walk in to my local Apple store in search of a new set of earbuds that I realized what's actually happening

Apple just soft-launched one of the most powerful digital wallet services, and few have noticed.

First, let me walk you through...

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erik-loehfelm Posted by Erik Loehfelm in design, ux, html5, mobile, blog

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"How should I deploy my site or application to mobile?" This is a common question we hear from our clients these days. Unfortunately, the answer is not as straightforward as you might think. One key fact overrides almost every conversation in this space: Just because it's smaller, doesn't mean it's easier to produce. In fact, in many cases,...

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Forrester's Brian Walker recently issued a very compelling report entitled: "Welcome to the Era of Agile Commerce: eBusiness Execs Must Evolve Channel Strategies To Embrace Market Changes." In the report, Walker asserts that multi-channel commerce is being reborn, and traditional ways of describing multi-channel commerce no longer work because...

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Revolutions don't spring up every day, unless your talking about the Middle East and North Africa these days. Political revolutions aside, it’s interesting to look back throughout history at the series of major revolutions that have driven profound socioeconomic and cultural change over the last 500 years. The importance of each, their individual...

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Development and technology choices abound in the mobile space. Making the right decision requires tradeoffs and intimate knowledge of the alternatives, fit with strategy and experience.

In a previous post we talked a little about how mobile is increasingly changing business models, customer touch points and opening new doors to strategic...

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The popularity of smartphones has increased exponentially—not just for personal use but in the enterprise as well. For many in today’s workforce, iPhones, Blackberries and other devices have become the de facto mode of checking and responding to email, accessing the Internet, reading industry news and even executing business processes.

It’s a...

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As mobile devices proliferate the marketplace, businesses, developers, and consumers continue to respond to the enormity of opportunity created in this space. New levels of connectedness, advances in devices, and improving adoption trends are enabling new frontiers to extend business models and strategy into the mobile environment.


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Positioning Paper • September 2010

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Savvy business leaders understand that in order to serve the needs of their mobile customer, they need to create a powerful, elegant and consistent user experience that spans multiple devices and touch points. They also know that their applications must be fully...

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