by Tristan Allen | Feb 26, 2018 | Future forecasting, Future landscaping, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Scenarios planning
A piece appeared in LinkedIn last week, entitled ‘Pharma’s broken business model: An industry on the brink of terminal decline.’ The contention is that the pharmaceutical industry is broken beyond repair and will slide into inexorable oblivion. The reasons?...
by Tristan Allen | Feb 22, 2018 | Innovation, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Product development, Scenarios planning
Sure, we’ve all heard the happy innovation-by-accident stories: Post-It, Viagra, Gorilla Glass… but your transformation and future-proofing is not going to happen this way. The way we help people like you to innovate is to shine a light on new opportunities. The...
by Tristan Allen | Feb 18, 2018 | General, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy
We take holiday planning very seriously, don’t we? It’s one of those times in the year when we leave very little to chance because of the scale of our investment – both in time and money. It’s very common to find that companies – or the...
by Tristan Allen | Feb 15, 2018 | Consumer insight, Future forecasting, future thinking, Innovation trends
Technology vs education. The race is on, and the trends are both interesting and useful. As a means to see what to expect in the shape of a future market or consumer opportunity, reading trends is vital. How we source insight and interpret it is also important – if...
by Tristan Allen | Feb 13, 2018 | Consumer insight, General, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting
We’re looking at the plastic packaging industry at the moment. We know we can make a consumer-facing difference here but, to be honest, it’s a hard nut to crack. Nobody wants to take the leap in case they have a price to pay, so all parts of the supply chain...
