Angela Prentner-Smith will be co-hosting a design session at Friday's Milk Bar with Sarah Drummond, of Snook, on what a working day in the future might look like.
Ahead of the Milk Bar we asked Angela a few questions: 1. What brings you to the Milk Bar Meet Up? Well I set up the Milk Bar due to frustrations I was having with events and networking. I wanted a place where we could talk about what's coming next as opposed to what's happening now. How can we make things better? Are there better ways of doing things? What’s coming next for us, what will we have to prepare for next, are there better ways of doing things? I love to hear and learn from other people's thoughts on these issues, and so the Milk Bar was born! 2. You will be co-hosting a design session that shows what a work day in the future might look like. Can you tell us a bit more about why you chose this topic for the Milk Bar? Sarah and I designed this topic to get people thinking about what the future might look like. The great thing about the future is that we are designing it as we go, without even knowing it. What we as business people need to do is to proactively design it, rather than let it happen to us. The exercise draws on the tools of service design and design thinking to get people thinking and doing rather than just listening. 3. Why do you think it is important for organisations to prepare for the future? The world is changing so quickly. Digital and technological advancements have meant even the safest of businesses and industries are threatened by disruptors. In order to keep up with customer expectations, employee expectations, the changing workplace landscape and competitors, businesses need to be on the front foot. 4.What do you think the most important trend is going to be for your business in the next 5 years? For This is Milk – I think the trend towards employee learning is key. The critical component that will help any business to deal with constant change is constant learning. If we aren’t learning, we can’t keep up with change, we can’t inform our business strategies with the latest information and we won’t deliver the best to our customers. So for a business that's all about change and transformation the key to our success will be in constant learning and changing ourselves! There is data to back this up, but it seems obvious to me! Don’t stagnate, and keep learning to keep successful. Meet Angela at the Milk Bar on Friday 5 August 2016, 17:30-19:30 at Snook Interchange Glasgow, 84 Miller Street, Glasgow.
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With just over a week until our second Milk Bar event on Friday 5 August, we'd like to introduce you to the speakers we've got lined up to talk and host workshops on the topic of Horizon Watching.
Denis YordanovDigital Intern, This is Milk What business leaders can gain from our Horizon Watching service. Information has always been important - not only for business, but to society as a whole. And information has always been around us, be it in the form of books, newspapers, or word of mouth. However, in recent decades, the amount of information available to us has increased exponentially and is increasing at even faster rates.
Annina ClaessonMarketing Intern, This is Milk Marketing Intern Annina talks about her experience in Cell 8 and what she's learned along the way. I imagine that anyone's This is Milk story starts with the name. I was looking through the University of Glasgow's Internship Hub vacancies when I came across a strangely-monikered company looking for a Marketing Intern. After it became clear that this company did not in fact deal in dairy, but rather business improvement, my attention and interest was immediately caught by its emphasis on people, and its drive to stand out from the crowd of grey suits. My background was vastly different from business consultancy, but that did not seem to be a disadvantage at This is Milk. It was different. From what I could glean from the job description and the website, This is Milk seemed like a place where I could make a real contribution, and have fun in the process.
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