CIO interview: Alex Alexander, Yoox Net-a-Porter
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
It is not always the catwalk where the biggest trends in fashion take place. Tech is driving fashion today, says Yoox Net-a-Porter CIO Alex Alexander
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Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
It is not always the catwalk where the biggest trends in fashion take place. Tech is driving fashion today, says Yoox Net-a-Porter CIO Alex Alexander
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and music superstar Ciara took it to the “House” on Tuesday night — The House of LR&C , actually — as they partied to celebrate the opening of their first fashion store. ” Russell Wilson and Ciara pose in front of their new fashion store. The party scene in the store.
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GeekWire
JULY 11, 2021
Nordstrom has acquired a minority stake in the fashion brands Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT through a deal with UK online giant Asos, in the Seattle-based retailer’s latest bid to boost its digital business and appeal to millennials. 30, on net sales of $10.3 billion the year before.
GeekWire
AUGUST 30, 2021
million net loss in 2020, doubling its annual revenue and cutting its loss nearly in half. million net loss in the first six months of this year. Remitly first signaled its IPO plans in June and is going public the old-fashioned way, offering an initial public offering of its shares.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 28, 2022
Offering a diverse array of cloud solutions, IT Vortex’s customers include enterprises in industries from manufacturing and mining to fashion and real estate. Lou Corriero, Vice President of Cloud Technologies at IT Vortex, notes that the organization frees its customers to focus on their businesses, not the IT required to run them.
GeekWire
MARCH 16, 2022
Sustainable store upgrades and features are meant to contribute to Amazon’s effort to meet The Climate Pledge , which is the company’s commitment to be a net-zero carbon business by 2040. Amazon earlier this month said it would close its bookstores, 4-star, and Pop Up retail outlets to focus on grocery and fashion.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Its portfolio also includes popular titles like Design Home , Covet Fashion , and MLB Tap Sports Baseball. During its recent Q4 earnings statement, Activision said that King raked in $577 million in net revenues, not far from Blizzard’s $579 million. EA says that once the deal is closed, it will have acquired Glu for “$2.1
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
. “Look for opportunities where there is either some major technology shift or some macro trend that either surfaces and old problem, or enables you build a solution in a unique fashion that could not be done before,” Nadkarni says. million net loss in 2020. In the news this week … Microsoft announced an Oct.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Climate Pledge Friendly selection includes grocery, household, fashion, beauty, and personal electronics products, as well as items from a range of other categories,” reads Amazon’s press release. Amazon says more than 25,000 products should now display the program’s label.
The Verge
DECEMBER 13, 2021
The pieces Myers found and purchased for resale were from the buzzy brand Onia x WeWoreWhat, designed by fashion influencer Danielle Bernstein. Myers’ experience, which rippled through fashion and reseller corners of social media, is just one example of a phenomenon small businesses say they’ve struggled with for years.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
And by 2033, the same study predicts that AI solutions will result in more than half a billion net new human jobs. And to do that, new operating models must be fashioned to become AI-native and optimized. Now, Gartner estimates that by next year, 35% of large organizations will have named a Chief AI Officer reporting to a CEO or COO.
Future of CIO
JANUARY 30, 2015
Net Promoter Score" (NPS) measures the loyalty that exists between a provider and a consumer. The intent behind NPS is well conceived. but it is not the magic silver bullet that is necessarily relevant everywhere. The provider can be a company, employer or any other entity.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
First-generation tech usually causes ‘net negative’ social effects; second-generation ‘net neutral’ effects; by the third generation of tech—once the tech is smart enough, and we’ve got the interface right, and it begins to reinforce the best behaviors—we finally get to ‘net positive’ effects.”. Call me an optimist.”.
TM Forum
MAY 25, 2022
It is essential that catalogs can be interrogated (and if necessary, changed) in an automated fashion for zerotouch service operations to become a reality. As a key touchpoint with business customers, this is a central focus of improving customer experience and driving higher Net Promoter Scores.
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 3, 2012
Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook.
CTOvision
JANUARY 23, 2015
However, while IoT is super exciting for sure, most (useful) enterprise information is still generated via people in old-fashioned transactional systems, Web interactions, social media and other channels. Look beyond the IoT buzz. But this doesn’t mean that businesses have to get all their devices online and monitor them before passing go.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
s a pressing issue not unique to Travelers, but Mannoochahr sees that in order to deliver on those disciplines advancing analytics to foster a healthier business, he and his team recognize the need to cast a wider net. But we have to bring in the right talent. But whatâ??s s changed is a greater world of possibilities.
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The good news about offensive cybersecurity companies is that they treat their exploits as their crown jewels and do not allow them to be widely used and only use them in a targeted fashion. When they slip up and we find out about them, vendors patch, they use their backup set up exploits, and we continue the arms race.
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
She is charged with sparking new growth at a company that reported a net loss of $1.5 “Companies are looking at, how the heck do I move these huge swaths of data from place to place, in a dynamic fashion in between networks. billion last year , after special charges, on revenue of $17.5 billion, down 11%.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 1, 2022
The second clear business case was around the efficiency of our CI/CD pipeline: How many more net new features could we crank out of an investment in CI/CD tools for the company? So, we put together a 3-year business case that sees us sunsetting all of our data centers by 2023.
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 30, 2018
The reason for the use of Docker containers in this approach is twofold: Many of the newer container-optimized Linux distributions—CoreOS Container Linux (soon to be part of Red Hat in some fashion), Project Atomic, etc.—eschew —eschew “traditional” package management solutions in favor of containers.
Vox
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Whether or not you’re a crypto person , chances are you’ve come into some sort of contact with FTX and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried — better known as SBF — in some fashion. In a matter of days, his empire has exploded in a rather spectacular fashion. Billions of dollars have been wiped from Bankman-Fried’s net worth.
Scott Lowe
MAY 1, 2014
In this post, I’m going to provide a quick introduction to OpenStack Heat, the orchestration service that allows you to spin up multiple instances, logical networks, and other cloud services in an automated fashion. The first resource defined is a logical network, defined as type OS::Neutron::Net.
Future of CIO
JULY 9, 2013
How can a CIO help the business to improve net profit ? Improving revenue alone without improving net will become meaningless as stakeholders will be more interested to see how much net generated from the business rather than revenue.
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 20, 2012
Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. outsourcing countries in a rapid and notable fashion. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook.
GeekWire
APRIL 16, 2021
The 5% Fund – PairTree donates 5% of net profit from every subscription, every month to organizations that provide lifetime support for birth moms. Fashion circularity is the ultimate goal! How has your business been affected by the pandemic and how are you adapting? What makes you different from the competition?
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 10, 2008
This is the risk Disney takes when it uses old-fashioned business models in a thoroughly modern world. Even if you're not attending, we'd be happy to have you contribute - just drop us a line (fen at futureexploration dot net) and we'll set you up with a login. Mark Pesce (again) on Another Planet, Utterly Unlike Our Own.
Future of CIO
OCTOBER 30, 2016
Improving revenue alone without improving net will become meaningless as stakeholders will be more interested to see how much net generated from the business rather than revenue. This is an important step to building IT reputation as a strategic business partner and growth engine.
Vox
JULY 15, 2024
In the first quarter of 2024, the company netted a profit of $10.4 Amazon sells everything, but can it do better in ultra-cheap fast fashion than Shein? This nation of loyal Prime subscribers helped make Amazon, for many years a textbook case of an unprofitable tech company , into a juggernaut. Better in furniture than Wayfair?
Future of CIO
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
Digital CIOs need to help the business top line growth and improve the net profit: It’s not sufficient to run IT to keep the lights on only. Digital CIOs as top business leaders, how to renovate the tarnished IT image and manage IT with a sense of achievement?
Future of CIO
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Digital charm is not based on the style (fancy web presence or fashionable gadgets) only float on the surface but based on the set of unique business capabilities. Because fashion will fade away, but the trend will turn into reality. Digital transformation is the unstoppable trend.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Snap posted its first-ever net profit and beat growth forecasts. Meta — the company formerly known as Facebook — cracked the $100 billion mark for its first time, too, even if the company also saw historic losses following its first-ever drop in users. It’s not just the big-name tech companies notching record results, though.
Vox
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Whether or not you’re a crypto person , chances are you’ve come into some sort of contact with FTX and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried — better known as SBF — in some fashion. In a matter of days, his empire has exploded in a rather spectacular fashion. Billions of dollars have been wiped from Bankman-Fried’s net worth.
GeekWire
JULY 7, 2020
Companies have ramped up their climate commitments, including Microsoft’s pledge to be carbon negative and to remove enough greenhouse gases by 2050 to wipe out its historic carbon footprint and Amazon’s promise to be net carbon zero by 2040. T-shirt, shorts and sandals in the summer. How do you make time for family?
The Verge
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Kurt Cobain sometimes deployed Courtney Love in a similar fashion.) The net effect was of watching someone realize in real time exactly how strong the case against her was. The net effect was of watching someone realize in real time exactly how strong the case against her was and how weak her explanation sounded.
Future of CIO
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
Technology makes the world much smaller than ever, we are all net citizen and C (connecting) generation now, it’s the leadership trait in developing the true understanding based upon related interaction with others. Follow us at: @Pearl_Zhu.
Vox
DECEMBER 13, 2022
In a matter of days in the fall of 2022, his empire exploded in a rather spectacular fashion. Billions of dollars have been wiped from Bankman-Fried’s net worth, who now says his wealth is in the tens of thousands of dollars; FTX is bankrupt. It didn’t get one. The picture emerging is an ugly one.
Phil Windley
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
The files are stored on IPFS, decentralized on storage providers around the net. My vision for picos is that they can operate on a decentralized mesh of pico engines in a similar decentralized fashion. The identity is just an Ethereum address that anyone can create using Metamask, a Javascript application that runs in the browser.
Future of CIO
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
IT is also something to have the IT resources (people and operational IT processes) refined to the point that they are nimble, can adapt to changing business demands in a timely fashion, can be reapplied to altering business priorities and be effective with little down curve. IT must be measured through business viewpoint.
Future of CIO
JANUARY 5, 2013
All of this requires changes in business architecture and IT architecture in a joint fashion across organizational boundaries, etc, it requires an agile EA that can move at the speed of innovation. Failure has the potential to affect net profit, whilst innovation has the potential to grow revenues.
The Verge
JUNE 8, 2021
And I am part of the safety net of my extended family — when people need money, they come to me. I thought, look, if you get a job at Facebook, that’s your safety net. When I talk to people who have the technical skills, who are interested in software, who are interested in startups, socio-economic barriers are really tricky.
Vox
DECEMBER 20, 2022
High-fashion institutions cut ties with him, and Adidas ended its collaboration with him on the fashion line Yeezy, leaving Ye no longer a billionaire, according to Forbes. He “just revealed billionaires are not smarter than you,” Giridharadas told Vox. They are people who happen to have a billion dollars or more.”.
ForAllSecure
APRIL 19, 2023
So you develop your software, you compile, we build a programming environment, I call it a compiler, but I'm told now to be that's a net sh term. That's an old fashioned, slow and inefficient way of doing things. It's a programming environment. It's called EPR. It's open source. And what we say is that that's kind of old news.
Vox
MARCH 10, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank met its demise largely as the result of a good old-fashioned bank run after signs of trouble began to emerge earlier this week. I really do think it’s banks that cater to high net worth individuals and specialized banks.” Sara Morrison 2) What happened to SVB? They’re diversified, and they have a ton of deposits.
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