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 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 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...
by Tristan Allen | Mar 12, 2019 | Design Thinking, future thinking, General, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, scenario planning, Scenarios planning
A few years ago, probably 2012 or so, there was a right old kerfuffle when some bright spark fitted a skateboard with a petrol engine, and the craze for powered personal mobility took off. For the first time, a semi-viable alternative to a bike was available and early...
by Tristan Allen | Mar 7, 2019 | Design Thinking, General, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Product development, Product lifecycle, scenario planning
There’s a feeling among company managers that external perspectives can’t add much to business strategy. It’s an opinion we hear fairly often and yet, McKinsey seems to be doing OK. Is this because buyers of management consultancy just want to buy in resource to get a...
