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Retail High Street Revival The UK retail sector is experiencing a resurgence in physical store high street revivals, with shops expanding and reestablishing their in-store presence. Forrester forecasts that physical retail will make up almost 80% of global retail sales in 2025. This trend...
Good intentions need to be activated to make an impact. What starts as a new way to view employment and work relationships needs tangible actions to become a reality. Prioritising an employee-centric workplace at the heart of your goal helps you choose the right...
Following on from the turbulent last six months, we have experienced projects being put on hold, go-live dates moving out or resource being reduced to focus on business as usual. The impact this has had around businesses’ internal innovation and continuous improvement programmes has...
There is real comfort in paper. A simple sheet or large pile, a physical document, one you can carry around and read anywhere, where you can put your highlighter to full use to flag key points and where you can annotate comments in the...
Get ready. The workplace of the future has arrived more suddenly than anyone could have imagined. When it comes to “where”, “when” and “how” we work, behaviours have shifted across all of the world’s economies. It seems not so long ago we were all...
Many companies are investing in some sort of data project – data analytics, big data, AI, machine learning data science. However, independent data projects do not make you data-driven. As we move into the ‘new normal’ the importance of deeper insights has never been...
In a period of months in 2020 pretty much everything has changed for leaders of organisations. The new imperatives for success are wide-ranging, challenging, here now and include: Empowering and engaging a remote workforce less sure about their future Updating technology and supply chain...
The concept of New Work is about seeing and conceiving the workplace in a people-centric manner to make your company an employer of choice. In our previous blog, we explored some of the component parts of this model and how it could benefit your...
Like it or not, workplaces are regenerating. Do you move with the times and stay ahead of the game or resist reform and risk becoming a place of the past? An article in the Financial Times in August suggested that The Future of Work...
At Nine Feet Tall we like to remind ourselves of the Henry Kissinger quote: “A diamond is just a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.” Well, the coronavirus pandemic has certainly brought about more pressure, disruption and challenges to businesses than would have...