The business value was clear, and the innovation was to use technology in an easy to understand customer journey that merged the in-store and online channels and made those channels work for each another to create the nearest weve yet come to omnichannel. There is a seamless offline to online link: Style Share can also be integrated into the brands website and app so that people can vote online without needing to go into the store. Having selected the clothes, the customer could go to the changing room to try them on, and alert staff to go and get different sizes using a touch screen. a virtual store where customers navigate aisles, click items to find out more Idea: Ads are everywhere but most of them are irrelevant and really dont make any sense for people viewing them. The teams themselves came from all over Tesco including from Tesco Bank, Tesco Mobile, stores and some of our supplier partners. 48 teams completed the challenge, with 46 of those presenting to the judges a very exciting event as each team had just minutes to persuade the panel of the winning attributes of their solution. There was a real buzz in the air as the teams got to work, with pressure and excitement building as they worked to the tight timeline. Enhance their experience by letting them set a shopping date with friends / flat mates / colleagues and shop having fun and benefitting from others suggestions / opinions as they shop. Most of us will say we know what it takes to be healthy, but there remains a yawning chasm between what we know to be important, and what we actually do. In real-time we saw the coffees requirements appear in a down-projected image on the baristas work table, along with a circle slowly growing around the description words to show the estimated countdown to the customers arrival. Our administration will contact you shortly. 43 teams hack for 24 hours at our most successful India Hackathon yet! Winner: Gang of Four, with their hack to help customers choose the fastest queue for checkout. We liked how both these teams took the ultimate customer experience to mean ease existing conscious customer frustrations an important lesson for our retail world. The calibre of hacks was outstanding and extremely inspiring.
As a result, I have slightly changed my vision about business-model and MVP. The Hackathon was so much fun. The overall winners were the Barcode Monsters. We also gave two commendations: Clear Returns looked at how to use data to filter products by dietary requirements and envisioned how customers could highlight products by wearing a device such as Google Glass. After 24 hours of hacking, the teams presented to a panel of judges comprising Vidya Laxman, Vineeth Suresh, Tilak Doddapenani and Abraham Cheria from Tesco India, Sue Lance from Tesco UK and Rashmi Mohan, previously of Yahoo Labs member and currently an independent technologist. make an immediate impact on the market Please note: Foodlisto is a hack and works best on larger screens. Remove Despite limited amount of time, 11 teams have presented their solutions in terms of 14 presentations. Rashmi also took the podium as guest speaker to give the audience his insights into the Innovation Mindset. The brief was to create the 'ultimate customer experience' in 24 hours and we were up against nine other teams. Tesco Magic UK (Matt Bennett, Lawrence Rayner, Carl Knibbs, Ross Arnone, Adam Cohen-Rose)A data visualisation tool that brings customer data to life so they can gain a better insight into their relationship with Tesco. Another highlight of our sprint was actually running our own mini-trial of the idea, but the real sense of success was realised on the last day of my visit. This information will be recorded anonymously and will not be distributed with anyone outside of Tesco. First prize: Tickets to attend Web Summit in Lisbon They had really thought through the customer journey by finding the easiest way for customers to scan product labels not through barcodes (which can be fiddly to scan with a camera phone), or iBeacons (which cost the retailer to install and maintain) but SnowShoes, a passive tag that can be placed on the phones screen and presents a unique arrangement of what the phone thinks are fingers touching it. had 24 hours to come up with an innovative technology solution to one of these Looking ahead, it was fascinating and effective experiment. Working on the theme The Future is Now, the hackers had 24 hours to produce a working prototype and pitch a solution to an existing problem to our panel of judges. I think collaboration between Head Office and other areas of the business is something that should be encouraged, and I would urge anyone from Stores, Distribution and CSCs to look out for future innovation events and wholeheartedly participate. generate over 20m revenue in year one, Create bespoke categories for their favourites, List sort those categories that are created, Edit and update the name and the contents of categories that are created. It was a chance to meet loads of inquisitive and passionate colleagues. compete and network . We recommend you are on a laptop or desktop computer. How can we use our customers data The team built most of this journey in their hack and demonstrated it to great success. Team: Brogrammers CoreTeka decided to organize hackathon with real challenges and provide the participants with the opportunity to understand and solve the problems of Ukrainian companies. Idea: To develop a new shopping experience to our customers, especially those who are more likely to shop online. such a short period of time.. From Cab to Lab: a Dotcom delivery drivers secondment with Tesco Labs, Launching Tesco on If This Then That (IFTTT.com). This post was first published on Retail Week, Our first ever external hackathon asks the question, how can we help people make healthier choices?. The opportunity to create something that answered one of my many: Why dont we have something that? questions, was too tempting to pass up. So thats why weve decided that the focus of this hackathon will be on helping customers to easily make healthier food choices in store and online, and to feel inspired to change for the better. Jury, mentors, and visitors were impressed by the real demos of participants projects. A simple yet brilliant idea, which lets children learn about nutrition and its impact on their health, rather than piling sweeties into the trolley.
either for distribution or for Grocery Home Shopping delivery? This information would be relayed to colleagues via an app, picking would be done immediately, and the customer would have their items delivered directly to their car. All the data and insight generated from Foodlisto will be passed to the Tesco.com grocery development team to help them improve the overall customer experience*. Winners: Antony Turner and Roger Bowler Clay Cross Extra
We will be happy to see everyone at our next events! ), and lots of breakout sessions and checkpoints along the way, to make sure all teams were on track for the final pitches.
2nd Runner up: Smart Shoppers, with a solution to show ongoing deals and recommend shopping items with just a tap of your phone. (Please note that this competition is only open to Tesco colleagues, and that you must be able to get to the Bengaluru offices to participate remote participation will not be available). Tesco colleagues can register online today using the link circulated please see communications for details! TechHack (Dheeraj Kysetti, Prashant Pandey, Rupasmite Devi).
Wawel To achieve this we are currently looking for willing recruits to use Foodlisto and categorise their favourites for us. Were delighted to announce that the 24 hour event will be running on 21-22 September, and teams will be competing to harness the technology of the future and produce a working prototype to present to a panel of judges. Tesco Labs showed us Quick Coffee, a way to make it easy for customers to buy and pick up their coffee as they approached the coffee shop. business challenges: Jo Hickson, We really didnt expect it, so we were delighted to get 3. on Help wanted with our grocery shopping experiment!
Garments would carry a swing-tag with a unique hashtag, customers simply scan the item using NFC technology and can instantly see lots of images of other customers wearing the item on large in-store screens. However, as proven by hackathon, the mentors advice has formed new directions for further projects development course. 1st Place a braille catalogue of products for visually impaired customers and enabling to serve them better? We benefited immensely from their expertise and individual specialist skills. but basically for the duration of our experiment please be aware that the names and contents of the food categories you create on Foodlisto will be recorded and shared internally at Tesco. Working to the theme of Future Trends, the teams (many of whom worked through the night) produced a wide range of very impressive solutions, from new delivery models through to collaborative shopping propositions, voice-activated assistants, and the two-factor authentication for online shoppers. The teams presented their ideas and plans while business representatives unveiled their challenges. The second hackathon day was devoted to working on projects and it turned out to be a mega-productive as every team was allowed to take part in mentoring session, that is to communicate with and receive feedback from mentors: experts and market practitioners. Participants can opt for the type of participation in hackathon (depending on their objectives): to present his/her own idea, to join another team or to take up business challenge. It was fantastic to see teams from so many different disciplines come together to create such innovative solutions in such a short amount of time. Over 100 entrepreneurs from start-ups and external companies competed to come up with the best new consumer health-related app or service, in just 48 hours.
We didnt win but we were happy with our idea and are planning on selling it into one of our retail clients. A system On arrival at the Labs, Luke introduced me to the rest of the Tesco Labs team, who made me very welcome for the duration of my stay, and freely gave their help and support to Luke and me. I should know, Ive got over 540 favourites!! We want tolearn more about our customers appetite for organising their favourites this way and also which categories are created. And Ometria explored how to really engage with wish-lists that would work across multiple retailers. An Startupnight offers you a great opportunity to get valuable information, meet interesting and expe, Technicians, tourism professionals, designers, economists, and others interested in tourism! the business over 10m in year one, Come up with an idea that will The 5th annual Tesco Labs India Hackathon 2016 took place on 22-23 September. But customers cannot check-out on Foodlisto itself.). the need for a paper receipt at checkout by providing an option for customers We had real customers in to give brutally honest opinions on the teams ideas; sushi and lots of healthy goodies from The Food Doctor (as well as the obligatory pizza! Tesco, as one of the worlds largest food retailers, is super keen to create strategies that can improve health for the long term, and to play a major role in addressing this problem. I acknowledge that the collection and use of my personal data will follow the treatment as described on their, Remote Rhapsody Online Hackathon by Deutsche Telekom, Hackea tu destino! Window signage and in-store screens would highlight the item. Our very own Nick Lansley tells us what it was like to judge at the Retail Week Hackathon. Congratulations! Two mentoring sessions were held, during which teams have received several tips in terms of minor adjustments of project development course or were dramatically criticized. Would you want to lead your , 6 - 12 months business incubation and acceleration + AWS Activate credits $5000 (R91.000), It is open to coders, designers, artists, retailers, entrepreneurs, product & data specialists, and creatives. Participants can sign up individually, in pairs, or as a te, Digital marketing students at the IESEG School of Management, ESILV, School 42, Epitech, ESPI, HETIC, or ESTACA in Paris! Double (Suryanarayan Raju, Gopal Krushna
Several teams have enthusiastically taken up challenges and presented 2 solutions! Bugs Slayers (Devika Awasthi, Anurag Mishra, Sreenivas T, Shubham Chaturvedi, Manjunathan Raman). 1st Runner up: Robo Cards, whose solution was a robot which is able to use portable electronic devices, and complete transactions, as well as humans. Those using smartphones can skip ads and order required products through a simple voice command (for example Order 1kg Potatoes, 2 tomatoes and 1 litre of milk using COD) with the order then delivered to your default address.
Another team, working on Raben challenge Adjustive part for other consignment bills, has developed a general program for all types of consignment bills and demonstrated it by printing one sample during the presentation. The main hackathons aim is development of IT-community and improvement of IT-specialists competence from the point of view of developing their ideas and products. explore the ideas from this year too., Lakshmi Madhavarao, Congratulations to our winning teams! This was the first time a colleague from Stores had been invited to Tesco Labs, so the pressure was on not only to represent my own store (Chesterfield Extra), but also to make my visit a success so that other colleagues from Stores, Distribution Centres and CSCs around the country might be able to follow in my footsteps. Dragons Poland (Urszula Thanks to everyone who participated and congratulations to our winners! We decided to utilise our unique expertise and opted out of creating an app, instead we designed an in-store installation and named it Style Share. Over a period of 6 weeks, from mid December 2014 to the end of January 2015, we will collect all category names that get created and the products within them. Foodlisto allows customers to login with their existing Tesco.com grocery details and: (*Customers can also add products to their actual Tesco.com basket using Foodlisto. *Data Caveat: for more information on the security and privacy of your data, please see, http://www.tesco.com/help/privacy-and-cookies/. I presented my idea during pitching on the first day, several people came to me and said that my idea had already been partially realized and they shared their experience. Thank you to all competitors and everybody who came to support them during their pitches to the judges. If you are using a computer, ads will be personalized based on your social feeds, with the best deals then suggested. The winner, Kega Retail, was chosen because their outstanding hack created a customer journey that travelled across online and in-store channels, with each channel helping the other in an innovative bi-directional manner. Those using smartphones can skip ads and order required products through a simple voice command (for example Order 1kg Potatoes, 2 tomatoes and 1 litre of milk using COD) with the order then delivered to your default address. now being trialled in a store in the Czech Republic and we cant wait to Improving health is one of the worlds biggest and growing challenges.
Each team will have a matter of minutes to pitch and demonstrate their idea to our panel of judges, who will be looking for a combination of an exciting use of new technology, a smooth and enjoyable user experience, and how applicable the solution is to the business. Finally the customer could pay there and then (for the benefit of staff, the lights go green!
Our store colleague and Globeathon winner, Antony, gives his perspective on why collaboration across the whole business is so important for Tesco. On 13 and 14 June, Tesco colleagues and suppliers from the Czech Republic, India, Poland and the UK came together to compete in the eighth annual Tesco Global Hackathon. Together the judges chose their first, second and third prize winners, while an audience of colleagues from our Technology team voted for a Peoples Choice prize-winner. 2nd Place Were looking forward to the next event already! How you can help: Hack: Collaborative shopping solution: an app that notifies customers when their friends, family and neighbours are planning to visit a store. Home / Blog / Hackathon Ideas for Retail: Coreteka Organized the First in Eastern Europe Event for IT-specialists. Staff in the store would be alerted to make the item available and answer questions (thanks to staff tablet computers showing detailed information) should the customer wish. A , Deutsche Telekom's tech incubator hubraum is looking for developers, designers, and doers to join them in developing new applications for the Telekom Voicification Suite. Another key goal for us is to bring together lots of talented people, and give them an opportunity to meet new people, network, create something fantastic, and have fun! innovate the skin care business The winners of the Most Ambitious category were Grey Matter, who worked on a solution to crowdsource the Tesco delivery system, powered by Blockchain.
As a major retailer, we at Tesco have a responsibility to help people make healthier choices so much so, that we have publicly pledged to help tackle the global obesity crisis by encouraging our colleagues and customers to live healthily. 3rd Place The Bankers created an app which allows our customers to budget for their shop and track how much they throw away, with the aim of reducing food waste. Our team has come from Ivano-Frankivsk to take part in the first hackathon in Eastern Europe devoted to retail and logistics to solve the problems of Ukrainian business. them to add items to the basket using a mobile barcode scanner. Favouriteson the Tesco.comwebsite, actually refers to past purchases in store or online and, with wide palates and big families, can become a very long list for a regular Tesco shopper. How can we help our customers be It came closest to the ultimate customer experience theme of the Hackathon. 1st Place Sams Elite created a customer mobile app for real time visibility, tracking and information of their order, including any order changes, precise delivery time, driver and van info and delivery feedback. Ive attended the mentoring session. Our team got a chance to showcase the skills weve learnt since joining the Tesco Bank graduate programme. You are a team player and see the great ad, South African entrepreneurs, industry professionals, techies, students, and other SMEs with experience or interest in the application of technology to the retail industry! Therefore, 9 business challenges from Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine, Raben Ukraine, DTEK, Citrus, UMT were presented at the hackathon. I was beginning to feel a real sense of satisfaction by this point. If, on the other hand, the customer continues to pass the store and keep walking, they receive a second push notification with an offer that is hopefully enticing enough for the customer to be persuaded into the store. What wed like to do now with Foodlisto: finalists from Europe and India. colleagues to quickly and easily identify products that are about to expire. If youve never been involved in a hackathon, nows your chance! In particular, one team that was solving UMT challenge Control of trucks driving up the ramp, recorded the video involving team members cars to present their solution in action. The last option was the least one every team expected. Hack: A McDonalds-style drive-through delivery model for groceries. Project pitching was the most exciting moment of the first day. We really didnt expect it, so we were delighted to get 3rd place. It is just amazing to see what can be done in This year there were over 100 people taking part, in 16 teams. Antony commented: Neither of us has much technical knowledge, and we dont know how to code so it goes to show what you can achieve with a good idea!. Customers are also encouraged to participate, so there are rewards and discounts for the most likes. The organisers were also delighted to present a Peoples Choice award, which went to team Prodigies who created a way for customers to locate the least crowded store in their locale through the innovative use of I-dont-queue data. and add items to their basket virtually. Check out our photos of the event on Flikr. Save paper and time by using both sides of the shelf-edge label to display the promotion price on one side and standard price on the other side. This allows them to request items to be bought for them, and would reward the shopper with Clubcard points. And it seems theres the potential for us to make a massive difference: 54% of UK consumers say they want supermarkets to be doing more to improve the health of the nation, ahead of Government (51%), Doctors (47%) and local Councils (35%). Deloitte Digital presented us with Fit, an end-to-end fashion clothes choosing, trying-on and purchasing journey in-store. Earlier this month we took part in the Retail Week Hackathon held at the Emirates Stadium in north London. I accept to share my data with Hackathon.com. Its a common opinion that you have to be a coder to compete, but thats definitely not the case were looking for teams with a range of skills, so whether youre a comms specialist, a designer, security expert or product manager, we want you! Winners: James Davenport, Matthew Bennett, Oliver Joel and Lawrence Rayner (atHack of the Clones) But the journey doesnt end there: If a customer were to linger looking at items in a certain part of the store, ibeacons would pick this up. We encountered so many examples of thought through innovation where teams tested their ideas through research and refinement, checked business models and built a credible, tangible customer experience. This year, This extension to our Grocery Home Shopping site allows groups of people (e.g. Last years winning idea is shopping or enables an eco-friendly option for Click & Collect customers. It was agreed after a series of presentations to business leaders that preparations to introduce a pilot project could commence. in a house-share) to shop together each adding their own products, but being notified of cost savings that they could take advantage of through multi-purchases.
We reallywant to know if this is useful and how you real people would use it. This hackathon has generated a lot of interest, and many of our partners and suppliers are supporting in one way or another be it providing mentors, judges, or donating prizes or delicious goodies for the hackers.
We started from scratch and with open minds, and within three days we had festooned the walls of the lab with flip chart sheets and post-it notes. There was a really great atmosphere throughout the event and we cant wait to see some of the ideas come to fruition over the coming months. When youve had that lightbulb moment its hard to switch it off, and for 70 budding inventors our seventh annual 24-hour Hackathon was the perfect place to turn bright ideas into reality. Foodlisto will not currently work on smartphones or screens smaller than an iPad in landscape view. I hadnt heard of a Hackathon before but discovered that its an intense coding competition where teams get 24 hours to build a prototype of a new app, to help solve a problem somewhere in the business. We loved the simplicity, the relatively low cost technology deployed, and its good fit with the theatre environment found in coffee shops. Those who wish to purchase can scan the QR code, and order the product. In the style of many fast food drive-throughs, customers would be able to drive directly to a tablet placed outside a store and select the items that they would like to purchase. * Disclaimer: other brands of cake (or is it a biscuit?) Enhance their experience by letting them set a shopping date with friends / flat mates / colleagues and shop having fun and benefitting from others suggestions / opinions as they shop. Teams were a mix of office and store colleagues, and guests from companies such as IBM, O2, Oracle and Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH). Taking this into account, I can say that hackathon was effective for me.
Around 130 entrepreneurs from start-ups and external companies will compete to come up with the best new consumer health-related app or service, and theyll be given 48 hours to do so.
augmented reality application designed to help reduce food waste by enabling In the UK, the winners, NutriScan took on the challenge of using our customers data to serve them better, and developed an app to help customers choose products based on dietary requirements. Hackathon Gant - Livepoint Onepoint - Inscription tudiants ici . Hackathon Ideas for Retail: Coreteka Organized the First in Eastern Europe Event for IT-specialists. Third prize: Tickets to Tech. It was great to see everyone doing what they do so well. Next time they are at the retailers web-store, those items would be more prominent. We decided to take up the challenge presented by Metro Cash&Carry Ukraine ustomers navigation on a trading floor. This was the second time Ive come to Head Office; the first being in March, when I took part in Tescos global hackathon. The University of Alicante In Torrevieja invites you to participate in an online hackathon Hack Your Dest, Do you want to make a difference and actively shape a sustainable future? The brief was to create the ultimate customer experience in 24 hours and we were up against nine other teams. Hunters Czech Republic (Zuzana Radicova, Milan Zelenka, Ondrej Basler, Jaroslav Havelik, Lukas It is our hypothesis that if there were a way for customers to organise, browse and shop their favourites more intuitively then customers may well become more satisfied with their overall order. Winner: Darren Gibson, Tesco Technology Grad Matthew Bennett was on the winning team and said: I feel delighted about winning and so proud of what the team achieved in this time. Meanwhile the third prize and coveted Peoples Choice award went to Antony Turner and Roger Bowler of our Clay Cross Extra store. As chairman of the Judging Panel for the inaugural Retail Week Hackathon, I can say on behalf of my fellow judges that weve witnessed some outstanding examples of innovation from a set of 10 inspiring teams. In general, 10 participants ideas and 9 business challenges were presented during pitching.