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How Digital is Transforming Physical Experiences

How Digital is Transforming Physical Experiences

By Tom Weaver on December 3, 2010

This week, Tom Weaver, a Director of Flywheel, is guest blogging on Capgemini’s Customer Experience blog, discussing the changing nature of the customer experience in physical environments as digital channels continue to mature. An interesting shift is taking place in the world of the workplace: cheap mobile technology has allowed workers to work from many [...]

Posted in Living, Shopping Tagged customer experience, digital, experience, retail strategy, space Leave a response

5 property centred organisations that need to change in a virtual society

5 property centred organisations that need to change in a virtual society

By Tom Weaver on August 29, 2010

In an increasingly virtual society, a number of organisations or organisational types with large property portfolios or physical presences on our high streets and in our malls are struggling to adapt to the new order. With the news that Blockbuster is preparing for a “pre-planned” bankruptcy in September, Fastcompany have posed the question: How should [...]

Posted in Learning, Shopping, Socialising Tagged customer experience, experience, learning space, real estate, retail strategy, space, supermarket, technology 9 Responses

The Client Is Always Right: The Importance of Engagement

The Client Is Always Right: The Importance of Engagement

By Tom Weaver on August 27, 2010

Earlier this week, we posted an article about five local or global organisations that had redefined the customer experience, from a cinema chain to a grocery store. A number of people subsequently contacted us to ask whether we had seen the BBC series Mary Queen of Shops, and whether it was similar to the work [...]

Posted in Shopping Tagged customer experience, design, design process, engagement, retail strategy 3 Responses

5 businesses that have redefined customer experiences

5 businesses that have redefined customer experiences

By Chris Evans on August 24, 2010

In this day and age, attracting new customers in an over-crowded consumer market can take some ingenious thinking. By not just being another “me-too”, and creating a unique customer experience, no matter how small the organisation, it is possible to work within the same market but create a compelling distinction from your competitors. The following [...]

Posted in Shopping, Socialising Tagged cinema, customer experience, dining, experience, restaurant, retail strategy, supermarket 3 Responses

Brand, and the Petrol Station Experience

Brand, and the Petrol Station Experience

By Tom Weaver on June 21, 2010

The former CEO of Shell, John Hofmeister, has some interesting insights about the power of negative customer experiences on the brand of Shell and oil companies in general, from a customer centred perspective: Every day, tens of millions of people around the world stop at a retail gasoline station. For many, it is the most [...]

Posted in Living Tagged branding, customer experience, journey, retail strategy, scripts, technology 4 Responses

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