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 | 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 | Aug 31, 2018 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, General, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Product development
We all know that plastic is filling up our oceans. Environmentally-aware clothing brand, Finisterre, puts it like this, “A smog of microscopic plastic particles is suffocating our oceans, permeating every corner of our marine life, ecosystems and coastlines. Very...
by Tristan Allen | Aug 28, 2018 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, future thinking, General, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops
The Light Phone was announced after a Kickstarter campaign in 2015. It’s a concept that makes perfect sense in today’s market and taps into a current vibe. It’s a simple solution to a strongly signalled unmet need, and App developers will hate it. Standing up in front...
by Tristan Allen | Aug 7, 2018 | Consumer insight, Future forecasting, future thinking, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends
Presenting a set of opportunities that don’t reference what we know as fact gets a mixed reaction. The way the idea is received is limited by imagination. Companies are designed to run efficiently in one direction, and anyone offering the idea that a left or right...
by Tristan Allen | Jul 5, 2018 | Design Thinking, Innovation coaching, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends
There’s a growing trend that’s being called ‘complexity’. You’ll hear more about it as more people try to convince you that it’s a problem. So, from me to you: innovation is as complex as you want to make it – and as simple. Here’s the boring bit: Complexity derives...
