The retail sector is caught between new customer expectations and technological pressures resulting from a newly emerging competitive dynamic. Without disruptive innovation, the decline is inevitable, according to experts. If you want to remain successful in retail for a long time to come, you have to bring along a multitude of qualities.
We completely agree with Charles Eames when it comes to classifying innovative materials in architectural concepts: »The details are not the details. They make the design«. Because they are an essential part of the whole process, we have been taking a curious look at the latest developments.
Our mission is to anticipate the needs of a changing society and transform them into unique hotel concepts. We can only develop environments that function in the long term if we have understood the demands the connected guest will make on the use of rooms and buildings in the future.
In the last article, we focused on challenges facing retailers and defined »smartness« as the success formula for the store of the future. It brings together all the factors for long-term success with future shopping.
Everyone is talking about New Work – agile working methods, new leadership styles, non-hierarchical companies, and cultural change. What, in our opinion, still isn’t being discussed enough is what just the work environment itself can do for corporate change and a forward-looking approach.
The shops of the future have a lot to offer. They need to have a soul – and decelerate the customer. An interview on the modern store with Katharina Agilar from 7places and Frank Dittel from DIA – Dittel Architekten.
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