Well, Firstly, Happy New Year! – Hope you had a fabulous break over the festive period and were able to do what you wanted to do! – I wanted to relax, spend time with family and eat lots. I did all three – so I’m happy!
Also – I’m hoping you were able to listen to my first podcast, which was titled as… My First Podcast. It’s available on all major platforms – you could open up your podcast app if you have an iOS device, search for Think Lean Get Digital – and my podcast will appear! You can do the same for Google, Spoitfy and many many more.
And on my second podcast coming next week – titled (for the moment) My Second Podcast, I’ll be talking a little more about skills and jobs. How they’re changing – but more so how you don’t have to go down the traditional route – which is usually, school – college – University – Job – work – retire.
And this leads to me how behaviors are changing. Shopping behaviors – but also, our general behaviors for example, how we listen to music.
That’s right – you may have seen or heard, HMV (His Masters Voice)…. is closing.
Why?… well, simple really. When was the last time you bought a CD? When was the last time you went on the high street to buy a DVD?
These habits are changing.
We stream our music. We have so many platforms to do it on. Even YouTube now have a music/stream app – where you can listen to music.
It effectively means – we don’t need to own music. We don’t need to have the space for it. We don’t need to own a physical copy.
Indeed – there’ll be some DJ’s, musicians, etc… experts in the field that will own, that will want the physical copy… and that is absolutely fine – as that is their ‘bread and butter’. But they’ll soon shift to the on-line streaming behaviors of the consumers. Similar to how photographers moved from 35mm film to Digital.
I’ll continue to share updates of the high street – and how digital, how technology and how thinking lean – is changing our environment. I’m sure we’ll have more and more well known names from the High Street disappear over 2019….