by Tristan Allen | Aug 31, 2017 | General, Innovation coaching
We tend to see the constant monitoring of our lives mostly as a threat. All our devices are emitting information dust that is being sucked into somebody’s cloud and aggregated into a cognitive system that is learning our behaviours. Every retailer we use a payment...
by Tristan Allen | Aug 31, 2017 | Future forecasting, Innovation strategy
Business craves to be newest, biggest, best, cheapest. While the media are fixated on the far future as a problem, brand managers and open-innovators get on with making things we can buy today and tomorrow. The two ends of the timeline are connected in some companies...
by Tristan Allen | Aug 30, 2017 | Innovation strategy
Success from innovation comes in two ways: gradually, then suddenly. I’m paraphrasing Ernest Hemingway and, admittedly, he was talking about bankruptcy, but let me explain. You might think that remedying an immediate situation is more urgent than harnessing a macro...
by Tristan Allen | Aug 30, 2017 | Scenarios planning
Integrated technology will see functionality designed into the fabric of our lives – literally. Technological advancement comes with upsides and downsides. While we watch for the first signs that robots are taking jobs, we can’t shake the idea that monotonous tasks...
by Tristan Allen | Aug 24, 2017 | General
Seeing the light and having a Eureka moment is great. The buzz lasts almost a minute. Then another e-mail comes in and all that promise is diluted, maybe even forgotten. And there goes another great idea. It’s even worse for Open Innovators. They get hit with a...
