75. Brandon Rael: Your Trusted Advisor on Digital Transformation

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Today I speak with Brandon Rael, an experienced retail and e-commerce professional and a RETHINK Retail Top Expert, about the role of a trusted advisor in digital transformation. Brandon emphasizes the importance of understanding the root cause of challenges and prioritizing transformation initiatives.

We discuss the need for agility and customer-centricity in today's market and explores the motivations for transformation, such as profitability, cost containment, agility, and becoming more customer-centric.

Brandon also discusses the challenges of multi-channel strategies and the opportunities in supply chain regionalization, social commerce, physical stores, and retail media networks.

Brandon shares tips for enhancing company resiliency and advises e-commerce leaders to seek external help to drive transformation. He concludes by discussing his excitement about his new role at Kyndryl and his passion for continuous learning and embracing change.

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Guest: Brandon Rael, Strategy & Operations Leader at Kyndryl

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Takeaways:

• Understanding the root cause of challenges and prioritizing transformation initiatives is crucial in digital transformation.
• Agility and customer-centricity are key in today's market.
• Motivations for transformation include profitability, cost containment, agility, and becoming more customer-centric.
• Multi-channel strategies present challenges but also opportunities for brands and retailers.
• Enhancing company resiliency requires self-disruption and continuous adaptation.
• E-commerce leaders should consider seeking external help to drive transformation.
• Supply chain regionalization, social commerce, physical stores, and retail media networks are emerging trends and opportunities in the industry.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and Background

03:02 Becoming a Trusted Advisor in Digital Transformation

10:00 The Importance of Agility and Customer-Centricity

14:33 Motivations for Transformation: Profitability, Cost Containment, and Customer-Centricity

23:22 Enhancing Company Resiliency through Self-Disruption

26:03 The Role of External Help in Driving Transformation

28:40 Emerging Trends and Opportunities: Supply Chain Regionalization, Social Commerce, Physical Stores, and Retail Media Networks

31:27 Conclusion and Fun Fact