by Tristan Allen | May 19, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops
People often refer to innovation as what happens in the future. But, for us, the future means what happens in this budget year. In 2019, Millennials still hold the top spot in the most important consumer rankings (depending on what you sell). They are, of course,...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 29, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends
Sometimes innovation feels too hard and takes too long to begin when common sense says ‘good enough’ is fine. Radical solutions may be the best way forward but a single step moves the game on far enough for the next step to feel more possible – and the...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 26, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, General, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Product development, Product lifecycle
I just heard a lovely exposition on the ways modern corporate business is wrestling with the recruitment issue. On Reid Hoffman’s Masters of Scale podcast, ironically called Take bigger risks, the show sponsor is Mastercard. The Mastercard Center for...
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 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...
by Tristan Allen | Mar 21, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy, Innovation workshops
Presenting at a trade event gets the creative juices flowing. Sometimes this can be a good thing. Sometimes it leads to other ideas. This is what happened this week. I was invited to present a short deck at Pro2Pac at London’s Excel. Appended to the annual IFE...
