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Joylab has been working on a joint venture with National Theatre Wales and NoFit State to create a product that arts and cultural organisations can use to find out more about live audiences. Audience development with limited resources is one of the big challenges if you are an arts or cultural organisations. At most live Read the full article…

Once upon a time, a man wearing pink shoes called Dirk said to me “Hey! Come over to Holland and tell our retailers all about your innovation lab thing”. So who am I to disagree. Last week, I spoke at the Emerce Retail Conference in Holland. And, my respect for all things Dutch is high (no Read the full article…

It’s been a year-long labour of love for JOYLAB’s CX Director Fergus Roche but it’s finally here. The definitive ‘how to’ guide to Innovation through rapid R&D and setting up the in-house lab. Authored by Fergus and published by Econsultancy. The best practise guide details how you can emulate the successes of Tesco, Walmart M&S and Nordstrom by creating Read the full article…

In retail and marketing the conversation is currently awash with talk of innovation, digital transformation the customer experience and step change moments. Retail technology incubators have sprung and are springing up all around. Those like the guys at True Start and Forward Partners are ‘catalysts’ for growing startups with a kernel of an idea and Read the full article…

After authoring the best practice guide for Econsultancy: Innovation through Rapid R&D – How to run your own in-house LAB, we’ve been busy responding to requests from brands like EE, Clarks & the BBC to help implement our methodology in-house. Feedback from clients has been great, so much so that we’ve been asked to deliver Read the full article…

I’ve made reference in the past to tech’ often – weirdly, being an inhibitor of progress, at least in the world of ecommerce where proprietary platforms rule the roost and the costs of implementation prohibit rapid/volume testing. Or at least they did… The rise of product layers such as Qubit and the like are a Read the full article…

One thing that is painfully obvious, is that not one brand has all the bases covered. At the moment it feels like – at least in the trade press and conference conversation, that there’s a land grab to become the omnichannel retailer of the future. This feeling engenders an air of panic. Those that don’t Read the full article…

Research is everything. In every walk of life, being well informed is the key to success. Your customers aren’t going blithely into their purchases. Far from it – the myriad of ways they can research your brand proposition, products and services mean it’s almost impossible to uncover the benefits (or detractors) of buying into you Read the full article…

Fetishising innovation allows it to be a peripheral and aspirational activity. Change, improvement and disruption need to become part of the everyday work of senior executives. How much longer can you afford to hide behind the low-hanging fruit? Are you fed up with the word innovation? Personally, I’m sick of it, not least because I Read the full article…

I can remember when the three founders of Joylab first encountered the term ‘omnichannel’. Eyes were rolled and tongues clicked at the emergence of yet another buzzword. People were just getting their heads round the idea of multichannel but here was something Bigger. More world-changing. More, well, Omni. Joylab works at the intersection of design, Read the full article…