How bricks-and-mortar stores struggle with digital service propositions
I always like hearing insights from actual employees about company philosophy. A recent forum post, in response to an article about Amazon’s increasing dominance over the publishing industry and a question about why there is no similar warehouse distribution competitor of the same scale, is quite revealing about how one of the most successful “bricks [...]
The Greatest Service Innovation No-One Uses
Jane is a mother on a mission: to buy all the food she needs to feed her little family over the next week. That little family, consisting of her two year old toddler, Layla, and her four year old brother, Robert, have come with her to the supermarket. Layla is excited at the sight of [...]
Using technology to help staff create magical customer experiences
When talking about how to use technology to improve the customer experience, we often think about the technology that the customer overtly interacts with – a touchscreen, for example, or an app. However, where it gets really interesting is when the technology is used in the background to create a little moment of magic that [...]
3 Strategies to Blur the Boundaries between Virtual and Physical Spaces
Currently, in the majority of high street retailers, the physical, “in-store” customer experience and virtual, “online” customer experience are separate and distinct. In this follow up to our earlier paper, How the Internet is Transforming the Physical Retail Experience, we focus on how retailers can converge technology and the physical environment to create a better [...]
How the Internet is Transforming the Physical Retail Experience
Many high street retailers around the world are beginning to struggle as internet competitors take away their customers. What can retailers with physical stores do to reverse this trend? In this, the first in a series of Flywheel whitepapers developed from an original article developed for Capgemini, we explore the three ways retailers can evolve [...]
Design Process: linking services, organisations and space
In a recent post, The Client is Always Right, highlighting the importance of a well run engagement process with clients, we asked: How do you innovate around the physical environment, making it better for customers or learners, when space and the way we use it is so culturally ingrained in an organisation’s behaviour? How do [...]
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