Arthur Zaczkiewicz

2 weeks ago | wwd.com | Arthur Zaczkiewicz

Skypad, the retail analytics solution provider, and Famous Footwear, a lead brand in the Caleres portfolio, have teamed to launch an insight-driven digital platform to drive consistency, profitability and performance for the retailer. This partnership highlights how Skypad's platform aims to redefine collaboration at Famous Footwear and to establish a potential blueprint for success across the entire retail environment.

3 weeks ago | wwd.com | Arthur Zaczkiewicz

What will shopping for fashion look like 25 years from now? According to Nikki Baird, vice president of strategy and product at Aptos, the future is all about hyper-personalized, tech-enabled experiences. In an exclusive interview with WWD, Baird envisions a world where AI-powered personal assistants revolutionize the way consumers shop, decide and engage with fashion. This is part two of a two-part series. WWD: It's 25 years from now.

3 weeks ago | wwd.com | Arthur Zaczkiewicz

Working and having grit were some of the key themes offered to this year's graduating class of LIM College at a commencement held last week at David Geffen Hall in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Nearly 500 students participated in the 86th annual commencement exercises. Students donned caps and gowns to collect their master's, bachelor's and associate degrees. The keynote address was from Luisa Herrera-Garcia, chief officer of development and production sourcing at Alexander Wang.

3 weeks ago | wwd.com | Arthur Zaczkiewicz

The firm 7thonline, a leader in multichannel, AI-based merchandise planning and inventory management solutions for retail, has launched CoPlanner, which the company describes as "a groundbreaking tool that auto-populates merchandise plans by analyzing historical data to identify what has worked best in the past."Retailers can think of it as an AI-powered merchandising partner that uses conversational AI.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Arthur Zaczkiewicz

2 hours agoLots has been written about working for and dealing with a toxic boss. But have you ever considered whether that boss might be you? This is hard (and maybe a little weird) to admit, but I never thought that I'd mistreat others the way I was mistreated earlier in my career. And yet I did. I fell into …