IDC Retail Insights Team

Simon Ellis

Group Vice President

Leslie Hand

Group Vice President, IDC Retail and Financial Insights

Michael Sek Pheng Yeo

Associate Research Director

Anne Paris

Research Manager, Worldwide Retail Experiential Operations Strategies

Alex Holtz

Research Director, WW Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies

Ananda Chakravarty

Research VP, Retail Merchandising and Marketing Analytics Strategies

Jordan K. Speer

Research Director, Worldwide Retail Product Sourcing, Fulfillment and Sustainability Strategies

Dorothy Creamer

Research Manager, Hospitality and Travel Digital Transformation Strategies

Filippo Battaini

Research Manager, IDC Retail Insights, Europe

Robert Parker

Senior Vice President, Enterprise Applications, Data Intelligence, Services, and Industry Research

Ornella Urso

Research Manager, IDC Retail Insights

Margot Juros

Research Director, Retail Technology Strategies

Roberta Bigliani

Group Vice President, Head of Industry Insights, Future of Operations and Industry Ecosystems Executive Lead, IDC Europe

Dr. Chris Marshall

Vice President, Data, Analytics, AI, Sustainability, and Industry Research

New Research


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    This IDC Market Presentation aims to provide technology suppliers with an overview of the key business trends shaping the Americas Food, Grocery, and Convenience Stores/Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) retail industry in 2024. The key tren...
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    This IDC Perspective discusses the key trends and advancements in retail technology identified at NRF's Big Show 2024. It highlights the increasing approachability of store digitization; the importance of real-time inventory awareness; the ...
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    This IDC PlanScape provides business and technology leaders with the latest information on the rapidly evolving generative AI foundation model and artificial intelligence platform technologies. The content describes the importance of these ...
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    This IDC Perspective highlights the key takeaways from the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show 2024 focused on the strategic importance of modernized digital infrastructure technologies in overcoming key challenges that retailers face...
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    This IDC Perspective discusses the pervasive role of AI in the hospitality and travel industry, as observed at the NRF 2024. It highlights three key lessons drawing from major themes in the Oscar-winning movie, "Everything Everywhere All at...
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    This IDC Perspective covers the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2024 event from an analytics and AI lens. The National Retail Federation provides one of the most engaging, exceptionally mapped forums to understand retail in the modern age....
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    This IDC Perspective discusses the importance and benefits of "what-if" scenario planning in retail with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI)."The value of scenario planning challenges existing models and the status quo. In retai...
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    This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight discusses retailer plans to increase investment in modernized infrastructure technologies, including cloud, edge, and networking, to better support key priorities of becoming more data driven; delivering...
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    This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation describes a generative AI (GenAI) use case taxonomy for engineering R&D. The taxonomy includes 5 sections and a total of 18 use cases that describe various business functions for product development with...
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    This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight assesses how retailers plan to invest in computer vision AI and RFID solutions to solve a wide array of store and supply chain challenges, the most urgent being shrink and loss of goods due to theft or d...

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