by Tristan Allen | May 19, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops
People often refer to innovation as what happens in the future. But, for us, the future means what happens in this budget year. In 2019, Millennials still hold the top spot in the most important consumer rankings (depending on what you sell). They are, of course,...
by Tristan Allen | May 11, 2019 | Design Thinking, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development
It’s been suggested that children are too young to sit in classrooms and that they should come back when they’re old enough to know they need to learn something. In the Innovation Ecosystem podcast, “Technonomics and why my profits might disappear”, McKinsey advisor...
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....
by Tristan Allen | Apr 29, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends
Sometimes innovation feels too hard and takes too long to begin when common sense says ‘good enough’ is fine. Radical solutions may be the best way forward but a single step moves the game on far enough for the next step to feel more possible – and the...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 26, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, General, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Product development, Product lifecycle
I just heard a lovely exposition on the ways modern corporate business is wrestling with the recruitment issue. On Reid Hoffman’s Masters of Scale podcast, ironically called Take bigger risks, the show sponsor is Mastercard. The Mastercard Center for...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 4, 2019 | Innovation coaching, Innovation consulting, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops
Not being able to anticipate change is a common problem in companies where financial and sales targets rule. It’s really easy for the CFO to kill an idea, a conjecture or to argue a trend because the data won’t support a forecast. It can’t. Data is...
