by Tristan Allen | Jul 6, 2020 | Design Thinking, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends
Established brands, with overhead management and ’growth’ as performance metrics aren’t likely to innovate for the right reasons, if at all. The innovation ceiling gets in the way. Do you work with a brand that has market share? Is your KPI to increase it? Welcome to...
by Tristan Allen | Jul 3, 2020 | Company lifecycle, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, future thinking, General, Innovation, Innovation consulting, innovation process, Innovation trends
When nothing in the data indicates what your future holds, you must work out what will keep your product relevant to its market. This is what innovation consulting takes care of. Clients can be contrary. What they say they want and what they actually want aren’t...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 15, 2020 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, scenario planning, Strategy
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller* When a crisis, calamity or catastrophe hits, you can be sure of one thing: there’ll be a load of...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 1, 2020 | Company lifecycle, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, scenario planning, Scenarios planning, Strategy
For many businesses, Q4 may be the next best time to launch an innovation, internally or externally. But now is the best time to focus on what comes next. For millions of people sent home from the workplace, the COVID-19 crisis might be providing their first...
by Tristan Allen | Mar 13, 2020 | Company lifecycle, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, ideation, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends
In the good old days, we could take a view of markets and see the probable changes that were readable from viewable trends. That was when the pace of change was fast – now things have stepped up to a whole new level. Long-term thinking. Future thinking....
by Tristan Allen | Dec 11, 2019 | future thinking, General, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation trends
During project research, we stumble across thousands of facts that can’t be used for that project but are still interesting – maybe we’ll be able to use them one day. Below are just ten examples. Some are fun, some are serious. All of them useful in the right...