IADS Exclusive: 2024 IADS Academy

The IADS Academy programme, a 29-year-old tailor-made mentoring workshop open only to our members’ high potentials, promotes cooperation and future orientation. Over the years, the IADS Academy has trained 190+ executives from 29 companies in 22 countries, some of whom reached top positions in member and non-member companies (for IADS member companies alone, 4 CEOs). 
The 2024 topic was as follows:
AI and department store activities - Given the number of possible AI applications, how can retailers develop a decision-making tool (in terms of investments, teams and time)? 
Once in the forecast, how can they decide and prioritise the right areas of application (examples: product development, customer loyalty, in-store operations, productivity-saving operations...)?
The following is an attempt to report all insights the Academy group considered and worked on during the journey to their final presentation shown to the IADS member CEOs. 

IADS provides its members with a weekly in-depth analysis on retail-oriented topics. 

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