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Re: iPad Hardware Reveals Potential Slot for Camera

Stuart Barker — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:34:09 -0000

Not sure if anybody else has made the observation, but the photos from Mission Repair would suggest the camera slot is on one of the side frames. Your article suggests the top... hmm, which is the top if I can use the iPad in either Landscape or Portrait orientation?

I would have thought it made more sense to have the camera slot in a corner, so it could be used in either orientation.

Re: Multichannel Retailing Reference Architecture: Update

Stuart Barker — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:39:17 -0000

Sounds like you'd want to define a publicly accessible business service for both your customers and business partners, sitting in the business services layer.

I'm hoping to cover approaches in defining business services in a later posting, using techniques such as Component Business Modeling (CBM) to prioritise areas of the business architecture for adding to the services catalogue.

Re: Mobile Retail - Coming to any Store near You

Stuart Barker — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:25:05 -0000

Could the economic downturn blight planned mCommerce efforts? Or, can we expect the more forward looking retailers seeing this as a growth potential and an opportunity to buck the trend?

Gartner are also working on similar research, though what I've seen, they believe the market for mCommerce is still relatively small.

In any case, here's hoping this is the year that retailers grab mobile commerce with both hands!

Re: Using Social Media to drive footfall and customer retention

Stuart Barker — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:54:52 -0000

Thanks Sienne.

You're observations are spot on. This all comes back to People, Process & Technology, with People and Process being the most difficult to get right. As you say, the silo organisational approach can be detrimental to multichannel efforts and requires us to promote, incentivate and potentially introduce organisational change to make such efforts a success.