by Tristan Allen | May 6, 2019 | Innovation, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Strategy
We’ve just had a public holiday in the UK. An extra day off gives us the chance to visit friends and family too far away to get to in a normal weekend. Take a child along on this trip and invariably they’ll hear, “ooh, haven’t you grown?” Children do grow....
by Tristan Allen | Apr 14, 2019 | Innovation, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Product lifecycle
Meet Soda. She’s going to show you how disruption happens. Talking to client companies often starts the same way. We see a trend that could be a threat and/or an opportunity and take it to them. The client is too busy with work to worry about a problem they haven’t...
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 | Feb 26, 2019 | Design Thinking, Innovation, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Product development, Product lifecycle, scenario planning
Getting innovation right takes time, and the only way to start is to start. The pace we work at is relentless. So is the pace of change: faster than ever before, and slower than we should expect. Slow is bad. If you’re slow, you aren’t keeping up – you’re losing...
by Tristan Allen | Sep 17, 2018 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development, scenario planning
Q4 is a busy time for CEOs and your board colleagues. Nailing the 2018 target is high on every CEO’s to-do list this month. Innovation might not be. On the other hand, you’re also looking at 2019 and starting to tighten up the plans your colleagues have been talking...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 19, 2018 | Design Thinking, Innovation, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy
Gary Player’s (iconic golfer, for the non-sports fans among you) famous mantra sums up nicely how it pays to put in the groundwork. There are many other sporting examples: David Beckham, Victoria Pendleton, Johnny Wilkinson… In the world of Design Thinking, we talk...
