by Tristan Allen | Jun 29, 2017 | Scenarios planning
In March 2017, an endurance event took place in Australia. Not so new in concept but new to the current era, it combined the old-world charm of a challenge undertaken by Australian ancestors and new age technology. The challenge was to ride a bike, completely...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 27, 2017 | Innovation coaching
Innovation… when you have to tell shareholders that your markets face a new threat, you will also have the answer. To the ear of the professional innovator, the idea of an innovation process sounds counter-intuitive. Like creative accounting, the ring of the phrase...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 21, 2017 | Future forecasting
Innovation consultants and futurists are good at telling you how great / terrible the future will be. It depends who’s paying. Unsurprisingly, there is a mistrust of future predictions and a growing sense of anxiety about the nature of change we can expect. Frankly,...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 20, 2017 | Scenarios planning
Innovation is stranger than fiction. There are loads of predictions dating back to a time when the signals suggesting technologies we enjoy today weren’t so easy to see. The phrase ‘throwing a spanner into the works’ is thought to have originated in PG...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 19, 2017 | Innovation strategy
Why is zero based budgeting creeping into innovation? When your heads of innovation (open or otherwise) consider where to put their budget and what to fund, their people sit and wait. Will it be me? Will it be the girl from the next office? Who did the best pitch?...
