Tag Archives: Patterns

Daylight saving time is an insidious destroyer of your precious sleep patterns

  By Christopher Zara November 03, 2023 As long as we have to fall back this weekend anyway, let’s use that extra hour to ponder the impossible-to-overstate importance of getting a good night’s sleep. You could easily spend weeks scouring research on the link between poor sleep and poor health outcomes and still not get … Continue reading Daylight saving time is an insidious destroyer of your precious sleep patterns

API Design Patterns: Best Practices for Building Resilient APIs

API Design Patterns: Best Practices for Building Resilient APIs DAC / Jun 17, 2023   Introduction API design patterns are essential for creating reliable, scalable, and reusable code. This post explores the best practices and design principles for building APIs that are easy to use, maintain, and extend. API Design Patterns: A Quick Overview APIs … Continue reading API Design Patterns: Best Practices for Building Resilient APIs

Generative AI Causing Consumer Search Patterns To Change, Google Vs. Bing, Study Shows

Generative AI Causes Consumer Search Patterns To Change, Study Shows by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, May 9, 2023 Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) platforms have gained favor with marketers, with more than 80% in the United States reporting they have experimented with the technology. Sitecore, a digital experience software company, released the AI & Composable Marketing Software Survey … Continue reading Generative AI Causing Consumer Search Patterns To Change, Google Vs. Bing, Study Shows

eBay Ads Holiday Survey Reveals Search And Purchase Patterns

eBay Ads Holiday Survey Reveals Search And Purchase Patterns by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 22, 2022 Walmart and Target plan to begin offering deals earlier this year to keep up with soaring inflation holiday shopping and ease the pain for consumers at checkout. The strategies, announced Thursday, come as many expect holiday sales … Continue reading eBay Ads Holiday Survey Reveals Search And Purchase Patterns

Want Your Business to Grow? You Might Need to Break Some Patterns

Laura Patterson August 19, 2021 https://media.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/content.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/Want_Your_Business_to_Grow_You_Might_Need_to_Break_Some_Patterns.mp3 All of us rely on patterns, that is a recurrent automated response to help us save time, effort and potentially minimize risk. Sometimes however its necessary to change patterns to grow and improve business performance, that’s the focus of this episode.   Winning at a triathlon if you don’t … Continue reading Want Your Business to Grow? You Might Need to Break Some Patterns

Report: Pandemic Upended Grocery Shopping Patterns

Report: Pandemic Upended Grocery Shopping Patterns by Richard Whitman , Columnist, August 2, 2021 Retail marketing specialist 84.51° is out with some new research that concludes a new kind of grocery shopper has emerged in the wake of last year’s COVID-19 disruption: the hybrid shopper.  The Kroger subsidiary did the research to help food marketers … Continue reading Report: Pandemic Upended Grocery Shopping Patterns

3 Essential Agile Failure Patterns in 7:31 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work

Stefan Wolpers June 9, 2021 TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, the following three … Continue reading 3 Essential Agile Failure Patterns in 7:31 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work

The Impact of Coronavirus on Visitation Patterns and How Brands Can Get Creative

Liz Weinsten — April 2, 2020 Understanding the Effects and Finding the Light in Dark Times The impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has run rampant, affecting just about every industry not to mention the worldwide economy and humankind. The way brands market and sell their products, let alone conduct their business, has changed rapidly in a … Continue reading The Impact of Coronavirus on Visitation Patterns and How Brands Can Get Creative