Analyst Profile
Robert Parker
Group Vice President
As group vice president, Bob Parker is responsible for the research direction at both IDC Manufacturing Insights and IDC Retail Insights, two of IDC’s industry business units that provide global, fact-based research and analysis on best practices and the use of information technology that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas.
Mr. Parker blogs regularly in the IDC Retail Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/retail). His Twitter handle is roberteparker.
Mr. Parker has extensive experience in the retail industry throughout his career in management, as a consultant, and in research. Prior to joining IDC to oversee the launch of these business units, Mr. Parker spent over six years at AMR Research where he launched the e-commerce research program, the most successful new program in the company's history. He also ran the Retail Advisory practice for AMR.
As a turnaround consultant, Mr. Parker served as acting CIO of two multi-store retailers including an apparel chain and a New England based confectionary retailer. As a principal at Internet Service Provider, TDI, he led e-commerce projects for several media companies and oversaw the overhaul of the store systems and networks at a specialty food store. While in IT management, Mr. Parker worked for consumer products companies and was deeply involved in automating the reconciliation of market development funds with retail channel partners.
Mr. Parker holds an MBA, with a concentration in decision support systems, from New Hampshire College. His undergraduate work was done at Rivier College where he received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Accounting.
Mr. Parker is a frequent speaker at industry and technology vendor events and is regularly quoted in the business, technology, and trade press.
Research Authored by Robert Parker
SAPPHIRE NOW 2010: SAP Broadens Offerings and Sets Out a Road Map for an In-Memory Future
Henry D. Morris, Bo Lykkegaard, Mary Wardley, Robert Parker, Ruediger Spies, Stephen D. Drake, Praveen Sengar, Gard Little, Kimberly Knickle, Michael Fauscette, Alan Tong, Ricardo Villate, Brian McDonough, Mariana Zamoszczyk, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Raymond Boggs
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223698
Vendor Profile
This IDC Vendor Profile presents a review of SAP's user conference, SAPPHIRE NOW 2010.
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Worldwide Retail IT Spending Guide, Version 1, 2009
Nina Bonagura, Ivano Ortis, Giuliana Folco, Gary Koch, Arun Chandramohan, Roman Maceška, Renato Troya, Matias Berardi, Chin-Boon Lim, Robert Parker, Christopher Holmes
Nov 2009 - Doc # GRI220913
Pivot Table
This Global Retail Insights Pivot Table presents our best estimates and forecasts for the worldwide retail IT opportunity. This Pivot Table provides IT spending forecasts for the following subindustries: apparel and accessory s ...
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