Empowered staff
Empowered staff are the lynchpins of cultural change. As you can see from the copy below, Ryanair is intent on letting prospective employees know that their work isn’t going to be hindered by half-hearted commitment to digital products.
It’s this kind of messaging that attracts the best from agency land, those that want to have their own baby.
In-housing
Whilst the copy below is intent on making applicants aware that commitment is needed to move to Dublin, it also highlights another message. Development is done in-house.
This trend for bringing functions back in house was identified in the SoDA report 2014, where 62% of client respondents admitted to working with two agencies or fewer. 22% of agencies were undertaking more ’embedded’ work with clients.
70:20:10
Again, Ryanair Labs’ focus on innovation, shown below, is designed to appeal to the empowered workforce but it also hones in on the notion of having freedom to create.
This tallies with the much vaunted 70:20:10 model that dictates innovation is best served by spending 70% of time and resource on core products, 20% on young and mid-stage products and 10% on new products.
Imagining experiences and prototyping has an important role to play in ensuring Ryanair never again lags so far behind competition when it comes to digital.
Startup draw
The startup has fully entered the worker psyche over the past ten years, thanks to the amazing success of relatively young companies online.
Ryanair recognises that the culture of early-stage companies (play hard and work hard within a self-contained unit with responsiblity for its actions) backed up by large company resource is an attractive draw. Especially for those that work in restricted and corporate surroundings.
Good pay
An obvious attraction is good pay and benefits. Digital professionals rode out the recession on the back of enormous demand for their talent. Prospective employees want the right culture and responsiblity, but they don’t want to take a pay cut.
Marketing Week’s Salary Survey showed a 14.4% increase in the wage packet of marketing directors from 2013 to 2014.
Ryanair CMO Kenny Jacobs will be speaking at our Festival of Marketing event in November, a two day celebration of the modern marketing industry, featuring speakers from brands including Tesco, Barclays, FT.com and more.
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