Monthly Archives: February 2017

Ikea’s Wants to Help You Grow Your Own Food

Created by IKEA’s Copenhagen-based innovation and design lab Space10, whose mission is to “design a better and more sustainable way of living”, The Growroom is a spherical, multi-layered garden made out of plywood, developed to encourage people in urban environments to grow their own food locally and bring some greenery to concrete jungles worldwide. The…

Data is key for customer-centric brands

In a Warc Best Practice paper, How to develop a customer-centric organisation, Jonathan Earle, Commercial Marketing Director at Dixons Carphone, says “customer-centric companies are data-centric companies”. “Being customer-centric involves knowing your customers better than anyone else does coupled with a very clear raison d’être as to why you are in business. When both are in…