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 | 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...
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 | Feb 25, 2019 | Case Studies, Future forecasting, future thinking, Innovation strategy
The tension that sits between selling a future strategic position and selling value now is not easily fixed. Everybody understands why the pull of the future is less strong than the current target and the £1 revenue in your pocket is worth more than the £10 you may...
