Tickets features the visionaries, producers and operators behind some of the world’s most exciting and innovative live experiences.
Joining the dots between disciplines, Tickets seeks to find out what goes into bringing amazing ideas, companies and concepts to life.
In this our second season we’re exploring the future of education, and how emerging forms of technology and entertainment are changing the ways we learn and interact.
All content for Tickets is the property of Howard Gray and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
Tickets features the visionaries, producers and operators behind some of the world’s most exciting and innovative live experiences.
Joining the dots between disciplines, Tickets seeks to find out what goes into bringing amazing ideas, companies and concepts to life.
In this our second season we’re exploring the future of education, and how emerging forms of technology and entertainment are changing the ways we learn and interact.
The evolution of spaces to places with Bart Higgins, Partner at WhatIf Innovation
Tickets
1 hour 2 seconds
7 years ago
The evolution of spaces to places with Bart Higgins, Partner at WhatIf Innovation
As the retail apocalypse looms large, the hospitality and entertainment industries are sitting up to take note, and the world of commercial office real estate is coming under threat like never before. The big question is what happens next.
On the guest list today is Bart Higgins, a partner at the international innovation consultancy WhatIf.
Bart runs the firm’s 4D Experience practice, helping companies across retail, workspace, hospitality and entertainment identify new business models, create better experiences and build their internal capabilities.
In this conversation Bart shares his insights into what other industries can learn from retail’s struggles, the future of the company town, and how real estate owners can reimagine the experiences they provide.
Episode overview:
05:00 Lucky breaks and designing a workplace for Wired Magazine
13:00 Reimagining retail store design - people, place and technology
19:00 Lessons from Little Waitrose and Whole Foods
27:00 The new commercial opportunity in the world of work
30:00 The office apocalypse, the 3 models of real estate ownership, and 3 big shifts
37:00 The future of the company town
42:00 Advice for real estate developers
45:00 The emergence of an important new hybrid role
47:30 Managing tension between old and new working styles
52:00 Thinking human
55:00 Iron Maiden and supermarket shocks
Tickets
Tickets features the visionaries, producers and operators behind some of the world’s most exciting and innovative live experiences.
Joining the dots between disciplines, Tickets seeks to find out what goes into bringing amazing ideas, companies and concepts to life.
In this our second season we’re exploring the future of education, and how emerging forms of technology and entertainment are changing the ways we learn and interact.
