I had the fortune of attending the inaugural Aberdeen Retail Leadership Summit (June 17-18, NY) and I was quite impressed with the extensive interaction, provocative discussions, and multi-industry thought leadership Aberdeen brought to the show. There were a number of interesting speakers, panels and insightful conversations to be had with the numerous intra industry executives at the show. The key messages seemed to focus on the ability to deal with change and how to leverage myriad data touch points and media channels to....