by Tristan Allen | May 30, 2017 | Future forecasting
The predictions are that smartphones will be old technology within a few years. Commentators are sceptical. Try telling anyone you talk to and see what they say. And yet there are developments that may just be tolling the death knell for our favourite device: Bone...
by Tristan Allen | May 29, 2017 | Future forecasting
As directors of a business that has been successful your job is to see into the future. To know where your competitors and customers are headed and to get there first. To be ready with the solution to a need they haven’t seen for themselves yet. It’s not...
by Tristan Allen | May 26, 2017 | Scenarios planning
We all see stats and we draw comparisons between them. This thing happened after that thing so it happened because of it. Elon Musk is going to Mars. We’ll all want to go to Mars. Italy’s birth rate is dropping. China’s is rising. Ice cream sales rise at the same time...
by Tristan Allen | May 24, 2017 | Innovation strategy
Coming up with ideas is brilliant fun. Everyone gets involved and has their say. We may even plot a roadmap based on whatever the senior person in the room said that day. And then the coloured pens and flip charts get put away and we all go back to our desks having...
by Tristan Allen | May 22, 2017 | Future forecasting
Not a day passes without artificial intelligence making the news. The data collected from the constant and endless monitoring of our behaviours is mostly seen as a threat, not terribly well-defined, that the machines will use against us. It’s obviously true that...
