SHOPSMART AUTOS – CUSTOMER INFORMATION – JANUARY 14, 2021

Luxury after Covid-19: Changed for (the) Good? (PT.5)

The following actions can help to establish a new leadership framework, which could also serve for future emergencies:
  • Create dashboards and an intranet-based virtual newsroom featuring key performance indicators and information on the outbreak, worker/customer safety and business performance.
  • Develop scenarios for future consumption based on the evolution of the pandemic, assessing the likely impact on the profit and loss statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
  • Nominate and empower a narrow committee of crisis leaders to make rapid decisions, bringing in functional experts and external advisers where the topic demands.
  • Establish a project management office to coordinate and support the committee.
  • Periodically reassess the situation and adjust priorities and plans.
  • Delegate to a smaller task force when that suits the objective.
  • Ensure that internal and external communications are crisp and timely.
Maximize short-term financial, operational and brand resilience The following actions can help maximize short-term financial, operational and brand resilience:
Stay relevant to customers.
  • Reassure them, explaining all the measures being taken to protect people.
  • Foster a sense of community amid social distancing, through engaging editorial content, virtual social gatherings and crowd-funded initiatives involving customers.
  • Give one-on-one attention to top customers.

Protect the top line.
  • Invest more in online sales and marketing, particularly in areas hit hardest by the pandemic.
  • Update your CRM playbook to engage and sell to customers in the new circumstances; tactics could include virtual shopping sessions and direct messaging of top customers by store managers, for instance.
  • For all initiatives, quickly evaluate expected upside and related costs.
  • Start preparing for the recovery, setting clear go/no-go deadlines for decisions.
  • Test new approaches to the next sales campaign (such as a virtual showroom or trunk shows).

Adjust operating expenditure and capital expenditure.
  • Postpone fashion shows and other “nonconverting” marketing activities.
  • Consider reallocating media investment from outdoor to mobile.
  • Postpone all nonstrategic capex, such as store openings scheduled in affected countries.
  • Manage retail costs and other costs, such as hiring, training, visual merchandising modules and props updates.


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