The Retail industry faces major challenges across the world: an uncertain economy, new digital competition, and a new generation of customers who are highly informed and more demanding. Regardless of these shifts, the basics remain unchanged: Retailers who accurately anticipate their customers’ wants and needs - offering the right product, in the right place, at the right time, and for the right price – wins it. Retailers generate colossal amounts of data every day. Those Retailers who are able to integrate a business intelligence strategy have a competitive advantage and can harvest useful information. Such organisations do not focus only on traditional reporting and/or analytics but on predictive analytics to deliver robust products and top-line. For today’s retailers, hunches and experience, that mid and senior level management brought to the table, have been replaced with logical frameworks and business strategies. To compete in such an environment, organisations should leverage an authoritative grouping of Data Science & Advanced Analytics, technology and management to be able to compete and win market share.