First Retailing managing Uniqlo has formed a tie-up with Accenture which is major consulting firm through E-commerce business.
Yanai who is the CEO of First Retailing said "We would like to build excellent system to provide everyone to make wonderful shopping experience everywhere every time. "
First Retailing and Accenture are going to start developing cultivation of human resources in the field of IT and a mechanism to make the best use of buying information to manufacturing.
First Retailing indicated their thought of accelerating integration between E-commerce and physical retail store.
In short, this tie-up means Accenture will undertake outsourcing of developing and managing the system in the direction to making omni channel. There is a background of Yanai's strong intention to dominate the competition both within and outside Japan with differentiation strategy by accelerating developing omni channel.
It is surely possible to dominate the competition in short term by the strategy of the strong but in the viewpoint of enduring increasing their competitiveness in a long term, I really wonder if this is a best solution for First Retailing to rely on external organization for managing very important system strategically for retailers.
Yanai who is the CEO of First Retailing said "We would like to build excellent system to provide everyone to make wonderful shopping experience everywhere every time. "
First Retailing and Accenture are going to start developing cultivation of human resources in the field of IT and a mechanism to make the best use of buying information to manufacturing.
First Retailing indicated their thought of accelerating integration between E-commerce and physical retail store.
In short, this tie-up means Accenture will undertake outsourcing of developing and managing the system in the direction to making omni channel. There is a background of Yanai's strong intention to dominate the competition both within and outside Japan with differentiation strategy by accelerating developing omni channel.
It is surely possible to dominate the competition in short term by the strategy of the strong but in the viewpoint of enduring increasing their competitiveness in a long term, I really wonder if this is a best solution for First Retailing to rely on external organization for managing very important system strategically for retailers.