by Tristan Allen | Jul 15, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, General, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops
If your metric of ‘ideation’ success is to fill a wall with coloured squares, you will probably never miss your target at an innovation workshop. Sticky notes are the friend of the unskilled moderator. Of course, sticky notes are a great thing, functionally. The...
by Tristan Allen | Jul 15, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, future thinking, General, Innovation, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Product development, Strategy
When it’s done effectively, innovation defines a roadmap, sets explicit objectives, and provides a guide for everyone in your organisation to follow. There are two issues that innovation must resolve to succeed: The need for change must be owned right across an...
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 28, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Design Thinking, future thinking, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation trends, Product development
Five years ago, the then UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced that the Government would invest in the north of the country, to drive economic and business development into a region that, to some people’s minds, had been forgotten for too long. The...
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 | 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....
