by Tristan Allen | Sep 30, 2019 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation strategy, Strategy
Raspberries There’s a farm in the UK that grows raspberries. It has always had pickers to come in and harvest the crops at the right time, but now it’s working with an automated picker and the results are looking good. The robot does the work of a person, and does it...
by Tristan Allen | Sep 13, 2019 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Product development, Product lifecycle, Scenarios planning, Strategic endpoint, Strategy
At room44 we have to maintain an agnostic view of every client’s business. To deliver landscaping strategies that present our customers with perspectives they couldn’t see for themselves, by themselves, and to be able to extrapolate an idea into a product concept that...
by Tristan Allen | Sep 13, 2019 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, Innovation, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Product development
Apple was innovative. Now it launches no new ideas and has fallen behind in the AI stakes. Mid-term, what will Apple do to pull it back? While it was the first $trillion company, and makes more profit than any of its key rivals, it hasn’t invested in gathering data in...
by Tristan Allen | Sep 13, 2019 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, Innovation training, Innovation trends
Innovation, ‘new’ product development and creative strategy all have one thing in common; they are forward thinking concepts. Ideas that you have today will launch in the future, into a future market landscape and meet a need for a future consumer. Nothing...
by Tristan Allen | Sep 6, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Design Thinking, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Product development, Product lifecycle
We all procrastinate. It’s time for my lunchtime run, but I’ll just finish working through these emails… The lawn needs mowing, but I think I’ll go for that run I missed at lunchtime… There’s a deck I need to proof-read, but I’ve found a fascinating piece in the...