Inheritance being cashed in: management is converting a long-held position into current business on purpose
The model's full reasoning — Q4 2017 call → NOWe need answer YES or NO. Need analyze transcript. Question asks: Does management describe that company is NOW DELIBERATELY CONVERTING SOMETHING IT HAS LONG HELD OR LONG BUILT INTO CURRENT BUSINESS — asset, position, capability, relationship, body of work accumulated over extended period and NOT previously producing meaningful results now actively drawn on, monetized, put to work — with real present-tense business already coming from it, and management conveying conversion still early relative to what holding can yield. Need identify in transcript. Management discusses strategic initiatives. Key: "we utilized our loyalty program, Shoe Perks, and the tremendous data we have on our 12 million most loyal customers to develop customer segmentation. We’ve been then identified our highest value customers to better understand how they shop with us by channel and product categories. We believe this will begin to transform how we connect with consumers and fuel future sales growth." Also "We have very rich data that our analyst team will mind help our marketers, our merchant team and our real estate team, achieve the goals we set with them. Once this process is complete, we will leverage customer insights to better serve our customer and further differentiate the Shoe Carnival brand down to the store level. We are really excited about how this will shape our future growth. During the second quarter of fiscal 2018, we will be launching Shoe Perks 2.0, which is designed to incentivize our high value customers..." Also "we’ve also launched an SMS program in the third quarter..." "We also created a new platform for our digital store front..." "re-launched our mobile app..." "vendor drop-ship initiative..." "brand landing page..." These are new initiatives, not necessarily long-held. But the question: "something it has long held or long built" - Shoe Perks loyalty program and data on 12 million loyal customers. They have had loyalty program? They say "we utilized our loyalty program, Shoe Perks, and the tremendous data we have on our 12 million most loyal customers to develop customer segmentation." This implies they have had Shoe Perks and data for a while. Now they are using it to develop customer segmentation, CRM strategy.
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