by Tristan Allen | Nov 5, 2018 | Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy, Scenarios planning
My dad broke his back in a motorcycle crash. It was a time when spinal injuries weren’t well understood and he didn’t walk again. He was nineteen. In those post-war years, being a paraplegic put some pressure on your job prospects. It took three years to get my dad...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 30, 2018 | Future forecasting, Future landscaping, Innovation coaching, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy
Drive into any town on any day of the week and you’ll join the masses sitting in their cars getting stressed. While you sit there, cyclists and skateboarders will glide by, and they may get to work before you or they may not. And you might think: look at those losers...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 10, 2018 | Future forecasting, Innovation coaching, Innovation strategy, Scenarios planning
Millennials are a pain in the backside. They dominate the room during ideation sessions, and management teams are fixated on them as the single most important customer segment. So much has been written about the behaviours and preferences of the millennial generation...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 8, 2018 | Consumer insight, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy
If your boss drops £1million into your bank account today there’s a good chance you won’t mind too much. In fact, you might feel pretty good about it. Whether there are strings attached or not, you’d probably be inclined to like the act and appreciate whatever the...
by Tristan Allen | Sep 10, 2018 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, General, Innovation coaching, Innovation training, Innovation workshops
It’s that time of year again. You’re all back from holiday (except the empty nesters, who are grabbing a kid-free cheap break) and the FD/CFO has issued the first instruction that will turn into the annual budget pitch-fest. Quarter 4 gets busy. Everybody is chasing a...
by Tristan Allen | Aug 16, 2018 | future thinking, Innovation coaching, Innovation strategy
Not a single day passes at the moment without a flurry of reposted technology predictions of the future. It has probably always been like this with a timely skew to topical themes. Today it’s technology. Apparently, it’s going to change us, our relationships and the...
