by Tristan Allen | Apr 23, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking
Look through your LinkedIn feed any day of any week and you’ll find a discussion about homeworking. An enlightened manager will be lauded as a visionary for letting a team work from home for some of the week, and somewhere in the thread there’ll be a comment and the...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 14, 2019 | Innovation, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Product lifecycle
Meet Soda. She’s going to show you how disruption happens. Talking to client companies often starts the same way. We see a trend that could be a threat and/or an opportunity and take it to them. The client is too busy with work to worry about a problem they haven’t...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 9, 2019 | Design Thinking, future thinking, Innovation consultancy, Product development
The ideas economy is great. Having ideas is where innovation starts. However, unless ideas translate into action, a launch and an experience that consumers value, what started out as a good idea with potential will never make it as an innovation. There’s a saying that...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 4, 2019 | Innovation coaching, Innovation consulting, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops
Not being able to anticipate change is a common problem in companies where financial and sales targets rule. It’s really easy for the CFO to kill an idea, a conjecture or to argue a trend because the data won’t support a forecast. It can’t. Data is...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 1, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future landscaping, Innovation, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Scenarios planning
To stay relevant to your customers over the next couple of years you’ll need to be aware of mega trends: the very biggest macro factors. Mega trends are those irreversible, slow-to-grow changes that we tend not to recognise as quickly as we might. It’s a bit...
