Finding Solutions to Buried Problems

Improving retail by adapting strategies from other industries
Retailers struggling to find new solutions to age-old problems need only consider other industries to find good answers. When retailers do not achieve the desired results and improvements from using their traditional approaches, they can adopt innovative techniques from a wide range of areas such as manufacturing, leisure, academia, sports and even the military to tackle a range or issues — including staffing, training, scheduling, employee morale and measuring store performance.