by Tristan Allen | Dec 29, 2017 | Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation coaching, Innovation strategy
How to innovate in 2018 and beyond? From vegan fundamentalists thru endurance sport to straightforward start-up centric podcasts and blogs, the advice is to work out what value you are trying to deliver to your newly-described niche. Who are you? What are you? Who...
by Tristan Allen | Dec 28, 2017 | Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy
Good design or circular design. Lego shows us how. There are more than 11.5 million children under 16 in the UK. Over the course of 2016 they were given, or bought, an average of nine toys each, costing £105 per child on average. That’s £1.9 billion in total. The US...
by Tristan Allen | Dec 21, 2017 | Future forecasting, Future landscaping, General, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy, Scenarios planning
The innovation landscape for 2018 is so exciting and so uncertain that it’s hard to know which way to turn. Which idea to invest in, which competitor to watch, which customer to target? We’re at the tipping point of so many technological developments and...
by Tristan Allen | Dec 20, 2017 | Future forecasting, General, Innovation consultancy
There’s a trend building for 2018 that’s soon going to be part of the innovator’s landscape. It has the backing of major design thinkers and of social enterprise campaigners. Even if it hasn’t reached the mainstream or doesn’t sit on your radar yet – it will. The...
by Tristan Allen | Dec 19, 2017 | Future forecasting, General, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Scenarios planning
Hollywood studios used to control the entire movie industry. From storyboard to distribution, their grip on production and consumption was absolute – until television was born. TV disrupted everything. Studio staff left, starting independent production companies...