Tony D'Onofrio
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- March 19, 2016
World Happiness Report 2016
From UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, here is a list of the world's happiest countries. The top five include: Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Finland. Where does your country?
- March 13, 2016
Industries in 2016
A new special report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Industries in 2016, brings together analysis and forecasts from six industries (including retail), identifying key strategic business issues in the year ahead.
- March 05, 2016
The 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2016
Google/Alphabet is the No.1 place to work for the seventh time in 10 years. Six newcomers to the list. 31 companies are from retail.
- February 27, 2016
Fortune's World Most Admired Companies
For the 4th time, the top 50 All-Stars is led by a trio of tech giants under 40 years old. Netflix returns to top 50 at number 19. New entrants to top 50 are Visa and Publix. Nine retailers are in the 2016 list of top 50 Most Admired Companies.
- February 21, 2016
9th Annual Top Technology Trends in the Apparel Market
Great Apparel Magazine / Gartner summary of apparel retail segment technology trends. Apparel companies are once again moving ahead with investments with emphasis on supply chain efficiency, reliability, and scalability, plus a resiliency to take advantage of emerging digital business models. Includes data on new technology deployment status.
- February 12, 2016
The Digital Economy
This Raconteur report explores how to stay ahead of the ever evolving digitization curve, from building API software strategy for success to extracting meaningful data from the cloud and putting customers at the center of the digital strategy.
- February 06, 2016
Deloitte Global Powers of Retailing 2016 - Navigating the new digital divide
The 19th annual Deloitte retail report identifies the 250 largest retailers around the world based on publicly available data and analyzes their performance based on geographic region, product sector, e-commerce activity, and other factors. It also provides a lot at the world's 50 biggest e-retailers.
- January 30, 2016
Accenture Tech Vision 2016 - People First: The Primacy of People in a Digital Age
The Accenture Technology Vision 2016 investigates five trends behind a people first approach: Intelligent automation, liquid workforce, the platform economy, predictable disruption, and digital trust.
- January 24, 2016
The Deloitte Millennial Survey 2016
In the 5th annual Millennial Survey, Deloitte uncovers what tomorrow's leaders think of business today. With two-thirds of Millennials expressing a desire to leave their organization by 2020, businesses must adjust how they nurture loyalty among these young leaders.
- January 17, 2016
Analytics Trends 2016: The next evolution
From Deloitte, a look at the evolution of analytics and its revolutionary potential to transform ordinary businesses, power new business models, enable innovation, and deliver greater value.
- January 10, 2016
2016 Store Systems Study: Brave New World of Unified Commerce
The transformation currently underway in retailing is taking the shape of a fundamental shift toward a new model for technology and delivering a seamless customer experience. The 13th Annual Store Systems Study 2016 tracks the emergence of the long-term strategy aimed at achieving unified commerce.
- December 26, 2015
PSFK 2017 Forecast - Summary Report - Defining the Future
The PSFK 2017 Forecast report identifies today's emerging trends that will shape tomorrow's creative business. By analyzing thousands of ideas shared on PSFK.com and beyond, PSFK Labs researchers identified 15 nascent trends that will continue to grow and mature in 2016 and into 2017.
- December 19, 2015
10 Hot Consumer Trends 2016
Ericsson Consumer Lab has identified some of the most important consumer trends for 2015 and beyond. Trends include using wearables for non-verbal communications, robots keeping us company, and the convenience of using things without the hassle of owning them.
- December 12, 2015
Global Fraud Report 2015-16
For the eighth year running, The Economist Intelligence Unit, commissioned by Kroll, surveyed senior executives from around the world operating in a wide variety of sectors and functions in order to assess the current fraud environment.
- December 04, 2015
The Most Innovative Companies 2015: Four Factors That Differentiate Leaders
In The Boston Consulting Group’s tenth annual global survey of the state of innovation, 79% of respondents ranked innovation as either the top-most priority or a top-three priority at their company, the highest percentage since we began asking the question in 2005, when 66% said innovation was their top or among their three top priorities.
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It is a Small World
Continuing to learn something new, we travel to Florence Italy. It is not just the birthplace of the Renaissance, but also the place where the piano, opera, and gelato were invented.
America is named after the Florentine Amerigo Vespucci. The story of Pinocchio was written in this city. The famous luxury fashion brand Gucci was founded Florence by Guccio Gucci in 1921 and you can still visit the first store located here. It’s also where you will find the world’s oldest pharmacy established in 1221.
Florence’s cathedral, Santa Marie del Fiori or Il Duomo, is the 11th largest church in the world, was built with over 4 million bricks and took 140 years to complete Michaelangelo’s statue of David was created between 1501 and 1504.
Dante Alighieri, the father of the Italian language, wrote “The Divine Comedy” in a Florentine dialect that eventually evolved into modern Italian. The city is also credited with establishing one of the first medical schools in Europe, the University of Florence School of Medicine.
In a 2017 personal article titled “Reflective Moments that Change your Life,” I reflected on the Florence experiences of three quintessential Renaissance men. The biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Galileo clearly illustrate, there is no perfect life. As humans we all make mistakes and fail at times. How we react and where we go next is totally up to each of us. What we think about, we will become.
You are not alone. Focus on the possible, ignore the impossible, for the glass is always half full. Be endlessly curious. Find your special place (as I did when I wrote 2017 Florence article) and have that quiet conversation with history to build an amazing fulfilling successful life.
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