#bestbuy (9 links)
- Google and Best Buy Partner on Mobile Applications readwriteweb.com
- Interview: Mr Best Buy goes looking for bargains in Britain | Business | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"[Bob Willett] says it is wrong for analysts to focus on store openings, as the internet is key to growth - web sales are rising faster here than in the US. "Up to a third of our business will be done on the web, so you don't need hundreds of stores," he says."
- innovation playground Idris Mootee: Radical Service Innovation Will Transform Best Buy's Geek Squad Into Geek Army Over The Next Five Years. mootee.typepad.com
This is the time for business model transformation. Many product categories are not giving them the margins/volume they needed to support a growth strategy. Blueray DVDs and flat screen TVs cannot power Best Buy forward, the future is not in gadgets, it is in service innovation.
Via stevenparker.
- Best Buy shows the importance of culture in the modern corporation | The Equity Kicker theequitykicker.com
It turns out that Best Buy has embraced the use of social media to empower it’s employees and reaped massive productivity gains as a result.
- Best Buy's "Enterprise Twitter" - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Internal microblogging/sharing at Best Buy.
- Best Buy seeks to expand its reach online - Finance and Commerce finance-commerce.com
Convinced that customers’ online-shopping behavior is now deeply colored by social-media experiences, the Richfield retailer has opened up proprietary product catalog data collected through its online store.