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 ]
October in New York is a warm and cosy affair, with our team hard at work setting up Xmas campaings for our UK clients in the Big Apple as well as hunting for retail gold and new store concepts. Spooky Showfields New York retail has been battered with occupancy rates plummeting over the last 18 …[ read more ]
Originally posted at Digiblox.org The UK High Street is losing over 2500 retail stores per year (LDC, Aug 2019)) while 80% of fashion stores are predicted to close by 2025. Yet UK girls and boys look more fashionable than ever, with trendy stripy trousers or polka dot tops, hipster beards for the men and colourful hair …[ read more ]
21st November 2019, Russel Square A roundtable discussion on the potential to transform London’s city centre into a thriving social city centre. Central London is home to iconic green and public spaces, national museums and cultural attractions, world-famous retail districts, top universities, the machinery of both national and city-wide government, and the monarchy. It is responsible for one-third of London’s jobs, …[ read more ]
The internet’s turning 50. Come celebrate with Here East and Plexal. About this Event From the event: Eva Pascoe’s talk starts at 1.11.50 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkklt6lhEWQ&feature=youtu.be At 10.30pm on 29 October 1969, a team led by Professor Leonard Kleinrock sent a message from a computer at the University of California (UCLA) to a computer at the Stanford …[ read more ]