by Tristan Allen | Jan 24, 2022 | Consumer insight, General, Product development
If you’ve read any of room44’s output you’ll know that we run a diversified business model across sectors that include eBike sales and service under the www.fullycharged.com brand. Across the Fully Charged business and particularly Fully Charged...
by Tristan Allen | May 24, 2021 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, future thinking, Innovation strategy, scenario planning
room44 takes a sideways look at non-obvious trends currently developing and asks; who does this affect? Chapter 1: Challenging questions: Politics in the UK. Cladding and negative equity. Interested party pacts. Listening and watching news in June 2021 it feels as if...
by Tristan Allen | Mar 10, 2021 | Consumer insight, Future landscaping, Innovation consulting, Innovation training, Innovation workshops, scenario planning
Without catalysts, the facts you see are the facts as they are – not as they will be. The analysis was right, but the facts were wrong. If you’ve read much of room44’s content over the last few years, you’ll know that our passion is revealing insight and trends from...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 21, 2020 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation consulting
If you feel that the chasmic changes we’re all experiencing will affect your relationship with your customers, now is the time to work on that issue. The future will take care of itself and you need to take care of you. What surprises our clients is how room44 pays...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 15, 2020 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, scenario planning, Strategy
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller* When a crisis, calamity or catastrophe hits, you can be sure of one thing: there’ll be a load of...
by Tristan Allen | Nov 11, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development, Product lifecycle, scenario planning, Strategy
Retail space is display space. Not selling space. It’s three years since British Home Stores went into administration. Three years, and so many signals that UK retail is not in a happy place, yet successive retail failures quickly followed. The demise of Toys ‘R’ Us...
