We truly enjoy getting to know the participants in our Women2Watch program – they are some of the hardest workers and most innovative people we’ve met. In order to show these women how much we admire them and their work, we’ll be highlighting a different woman every month with an in-depth interview.

​This month we are excited to introduce the founder and CEO of ettitude, an Australian company (with an environmental conscience) that offers bamboo sheets and sleepwear. Meet Phoebe Yu, an entrepreneur, business leader, sustainable thinker – and one of our Women2Watch.

​For retailers, expanding to European markets holds a big draw. As you might have guessed, it’s more complicated than putting something in Google translate and getting international shipping packaging. Is your company up to the daunting task of expanding to a whole new market? We sat down with the founder of GO EU Commerce, Jordie Geuyen and dove into the challenges you might face when considering an expansion to the European 300+million e-shoppers market.

Written by Brendan Phelan, Co-founder and VP of Strategy at Radius8

We recently sat down with a group of visionary CXOs, in the Remodista community, to discuss in store experience and innovation.  After several hours of engaging conversation and debate, we found the following three takeaways to be particularly relevant to the Remodista network:

In early February, we had the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on Contingent Talent Programs. As part of that workshop, we were able to interview the three experts that contributed to our latest source paper: Widening the Talent Pool. In this fireside chat, we covered flexible strategies, communication approaches, and how to layer in efficiency and risk mitigation — as well as some critical tips on measurement and business insights.

Demand for talent is fierce.  When you can’t find the right FTE, contingent workforce is likely where you might turn.

​According to University of Oxford’s Platform Sourcing report, talent is now the single most important competitive differentiator for organizations of all sizes. Organizations are forced to adapt or lose talent to competitors who are willing to allow employees to be judged on potential rather than silo-ed experience. Those who can’t find flexible and exciting opportunity as an FTE have been turning to more flexible opportunities like gig work and temporary jobs.
Work is changing and the desire for flexibility is increasing, now all we need to do is keep up.  Easy, right?