How much time are you spending at home and what are you doing when you’re there? Have we changed our idea of home and has technology anything to do with it? And where are the business opportunities for companies in the home space, and how comfortable are consumers with them? In this episode of the DockPod, coming to you from Accenture's flagship R&D and global innovation centre in Dublin, we dig into new research on the smart home and its surprising conclusions about why, despite a huge amount of home technology, are homes remain largely tech free. Our guests on this episode include Accenture’s Rachel Earley, who has authored a new report for The Dock called Putting the Human First in the Future Home; Architect, designer and artist Roisin Murphy, who has more insight than nearly anyone about what we get up to behind our hall doors; And Justin Cullen, who is the founding partner of Jolt Esquire and is chairperson of Maximum Media.

Is now the best time to be a consumer? Do our rising expectations reflect our innate desires as humans or are we spiraling out of control? April Durrett from our Fjord team, Dr Mairead Brady from Trinity College Dublin and design director John Moriarty discuss working at the coalface of spiraling consumer expectations and demands.

DockPod is presented and produced by Laurence Mackin and Sinead O’Shea.

In this episode, Laurence Mackin and Sinead O’Shea are joined by fellow Docker Derek McGrath, Tara Levins from Accenture Ireland, and Neva Elliot McGinley, CEO of Crash Ensemble, to discuss how hierarchy has both helped and undermined their working lives, and what we can learn from different workplaces and their approach to structure, from “flatocracies” and lattices structures to the “wolves who meet in the woods”.

DockPod is presented by Laurence Mackin and Sinead O’Shea and is produced by Sinead O’Shea.

In our first episode, we discuss failure. It’s the ability to experiment, to encounter setback and to handle failure that creates real success. Failure is not a pleasant experience but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn from it. Our guests are The Dock’s Director Ryan Shanks, Jess Majekodunmi from our Client Innovation Services team, and Lorna Ross, who leads our Human Insights Lab.

DockPod is presented by Laurence Mackin and Sinead O’Shea and produced by Sinead O’Shea.