by Tristan Allen | Oct 30, 2017 | General, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy
Innovation is more than the MVP. It’s all about where you plan to go, not where you start out. In the maker and entrepreneurial world right now, there is pressure to ship. If you aren’t shipping, you aren’t creating an audience or a customer base. The minimal viable...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 20, 2017 | future thinking, General, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy
Design thinking needs to deliver actionable output. Without a meaningful plan from a project, there’s little point in doing it at all – unless you want to be seen as interesting but unrewarding. Selection of the best development concepts is by far the...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 20, 2017 | Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation coaching, Innovation strategy
Who are you? What are you? Who will you be? Who do you want to be? Every entrepreneurial advice website asks us these questions. From vegan fundamentalists thru endurance sport to straightforward start-up centric podcasts and blogs, the advice is to work out what...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 18, 2017 | General, Scenarios planning
Carl Jung, the father of analytical psychology, defined two types of thinking – directed and non-directed. Directed thinking is, as the name suggests, a process where thoughts are directed using pre-prepared stimuli. Ideation applied to business-based tasks can...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 16, 2017 | General, Innovation coaching
Back in the day, Toyota rolled out their business system and we all got excited about saving cost. It worked for then. Today we need something different. But an innovation template? Really? Today, the cost of waste isn’t quite so easy to see. Factories used to...