Oliver Wyman and FMI Forge Thought Leadership Partnership to Chart the Changing Food Retail Environment
March 21, 2016
WHO:
WHAT
The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Oliver Wyman recently released their first annual journal, Boardroom, which highlights strategic insights to help senior executives successfully guide their companies in the ever-changing food retail environment.
Boardroom provides a platform for the industry’s latest thinking on emerging food retail management and market issues from world-class experts at the respective organizations. In the inaugural issue, leading experts in food retail offer original perspectives on a selection of the most critical issues executives must confront in boardrooms across the country and around the world.
WHY:
Boardroom is an invaluable tool for food retail C-suite executives as they work with their management teams to drive rapid performance improvement; transform merchandising and operations capabilities; and position their businesses for long-term success.
The journal covers issues on the industry’s cutting edge along with evergreen topics that have taken on a new urgency and expanded significance. Topics include:
- Growth Strategies: What is the next source of profitable growth and how to survive it?
- Food Safety: How do you build a culture of food safety in your organization?
- Cyber and Crisis: How should executives handle crisis management, including cyber security risks, in food retail?
- Omnichannel: How do you fulfill customer demand via click & collect? How can you capitalize on increasingly omnichannel operations?
- Health care: What are the opportunities for retailers in consumer-centric health care markets? And are consumers ready for retail health care?
WHERE:
Boardroom has been mailed out in a print edition to an exclusive list of FMI members and Oliver Wyman clients. The online edition is live now for all interested parties to enjoy here.
WHEN:
The journal is available for download immediately.
Additionally, FMI will host six blog posts over the next six weeks focusing on a core topic in the journal, including a Q&A with Oliver Wyman partners and authors journal articles. These posts will be available on the FMI blog here.