Originally on Retail Week The question everyone is asking now, as the country is locked down, is when normality will resume and even to what extent it is possible to bring back ‘retail as usual’. I’m a lockdown veteran – martial law in Poland in 1981 and the fallout from Chernobyl – and my view …[ read more ]
Horror stories abound with a full on car crash when Dad is on high profile Zoom Videoconferencing and the kids waltz in, perfectly oblivious to the situation and 3 mln viewers on the other side. The correct behaviour is not to panic but to bring them into the meeting and introduce them and their Teddy …[ read more ]
Originally published on Retail Week Twenty-five years ago, Cyberia opened as the first cafe with full internet access in the world, located at 39 Whitfield Street in London’s Fitzrovia.Created to give Londoners a glimpse of the newly accessible internet, Cyberia was a warm, non-geeky place, infused with the smell of coffee from the second Lavazza coffee machine in town (the first …[ read more ]
April Fools Cancelled Not business as usual this month, as instead of preparing Easter Sales, our remote teams are facing an increasingly uphill struggle to keep the show on the road. The economy is currently experiencing a death by a thousand cuts and with the current predictions of recovery being that of an “I” shape, …[ read more ]
Work From Home for Rapid Response Squads Black swan event happened on our watch and crisis tool kit is emerging as necessity is indeed the mother of all inventions. New weapons for comms In less than 2 weeks we have moved our teams from comfy physical offices to remote working set ups at home. The …[ read more ]
Working-from-home tsunami Week 1 is behind us and it has brought us some winners but also some bitter losers. Courtesy of coronavirus, over 6 mln people in UK, 1mln Londoners as well as millions across Europe and even more in US , have finally left their daily torture of long commute. Many of the newly …[ read more ]
Boom! Full remote working has arrived and you have to lead your team thru it. Many of us have done a day or two, with a few of our teams at home or remote. Not many companies have dived it fully developing all singing and dancing home workers set up. It flies against the preconceived …[ read more ]
The world of technology hit London’s West End in September 1994 when, for the first time, people could walk into a café, pick up their email and ‘surf the net’ for only £2.50 per hour. The physical and virtual worlds have been converging ever since, and purchases of physical goods have increasingly migrated to virtual …[ read more ]
Eva will be attending the IGen conference on the 28th November 2019 email for invitations Sponsored by: Nuveen Real Estate 8.45-9.15 REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST 9.15-9.30 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Mark Faithfull, Editor, Retail Property Analyst Myles White, Head of European Retail, Nuveen Real Estate SESSION 1: CONSUMERS 9.30-10.00 MODERN LIVES: Work, live, shop Microsoft’s new …[ read more ]
The Era of Shopocene is fast coming to an end as high street shops are becoming a relic of the past. But high streets are not just places to shop, they’re valuble social, cultural and commercial spaces too. The Mayor must do more to protect them. In a sci-fi novel written in the1950s, the hero …[ read more ]
