Consulting
Specialized Retail
Consulting for Powerful
Organizational Change
Tried and Tested Experience that Elevates the Performance of Your Retail Brand
Are you constantly chasing deadlines?
Are your teams being pushed beyond their limits?
Are you at risk of missing your forecasted goals?
Change your approach in getting to market and relieve the pressure.
Benefit 1
Smash the silos that teams traditionally work in so that you can deliver on what your customer wants.
Benefit 2
Open up time and space to develop innovative products so that you stay ahead of the competition.
Benefit 3
Retain your best talent by creating an environment where employees are thrive instead of just survive.
Get at the Root Causes of Poor Retail Performance
Deadlines are pushed out because market feedback is late. Go to market calendars are bloated with excess steps and are light on accountability. Teams are scrambling and have no time to work on innovation.
The Cycle of Inefficiency
The Cycle of Inefficiency is common and it repeats itself season after season. Retailers and brands get by with short term fixes to drag their products to market.
This ensures a positive impact to your bottom line, and will also preserves the energy and morale of your employees, thereby reducing attrition and improving culture.
The retailers and brands who work with us get these valuable results:
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Full-price sales and gross margins, increased.
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Overdevelopment of products, reduced.
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Traditional “siloes” of retail teams, shattered.
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Excess inventory, prevented.
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Best talent, retained, Bonus, their stress is reduced.
TESTIMONIALS
With a breadth and depth of decades of product creation experience both internally at the brand level as well as project-based work with industry leading consultancy firms, Liza Amlani draws from both simultaneously. She is truly an innovative and positive harbinger of the change and growth that are critical to the success of any organization.
Sandra Williams
Director of Materials – Columbia/Mountain Hardwear
CASE STUDY
Situation
A global, outdoor retailer was allowing design teams to work without development constraints. This results in a domino effect across teams where there was unnecessary development of product and no time to focus on innovative materials.
Intervention
We transformed the relationship between design and materials teams. These teams were rearranged to work in a partnership versus materials being in service to design. Further, we created a “materials-led” process versus a “design-led” one to slash development time and costs.
Result
Outdoor Retailer identified a 20% lift in time and space available for material innovation. This allows materials teams to be focused on valuable, long-term work versus in-season scrambling.
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