by Tristan Allen | Jul 3, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development, scenario planning, Strategy
We are often asked why it’s important to know what a trend might do to a business when the business is doing just fine. It’s simple: everything changes, and your business will too. Being alert to opportunity allows you time to prepare and to work to a plan, rather...
by Tristan Allen | Jul 3, 2019 | Case Studies, Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development, Product lifecycle, scenario planning, Scenarios planning, Strategy
This is a tale of missed opportunity. It features an emerging trend, an industry struggling to grow and short-term decision making. In March 2017, we picked up chatter about a concept that we thought would interest the insurance industry. We interviewed the UCLA...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 27, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation trends, Product development, Product lifecycle
This may be a bit uncomfortable for some of you, so let’s start by talking about something that many people find funny. I’m from Cornwall, and for many years there’s been a small but vocal movement for Cornish independence from the UK. Funny? It depends who you are...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 20, 2019 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking
It’s safe in the future isn’t it? No data, no risk of being wrong, no real problems sit out there waiting for you, because you’re really busy today and just don’t have the time to worry. Except, there’s a nagging doubt in the back of your mind that you may be...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 20, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Product development, scenario planning, Strategy
Since the banking crisis changed (or in some cases, confirmed) the general perception of bankers (think rhyming slang), there’s been a need for visible change in the financial industry. Eventually it did arrive. Technology improved enough to create products that...
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...
