by Tristan Allen | Jul 15, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, General, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops
If your metric of ‘ideation’ success is to fill a wall with coloured squares, you will probably never miss your target at an innovation workshop. Sticky notes are the friend of the unskilled moderator. Of course, sticky notes are a great thing, functionally. The...
by Tristan Allen | Jul 15, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, future thinking, General, Innovation, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Product development, Strategy
When it’s done effectively, innovation defines a roadmap, sets explicit objectives, and provides a guide for everyone in your organisation to follow. There are two issues that innovation must resolve to succeed: The need for change must be owned right across an...
by Tristan Allen | Jul 3, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development, scenario planning, Strategy
We are often asked why it’s important to know what a trend might do to a business when the business is doing just fine. It’s simple: everything changes, and your business will too. Being alert to opportunity allows you time to prepare and to work to a plan, rather...
by Tristan Allen | Jul 3, 2019 | Case Studies, Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development, Product lifecycle, scenario planning, Scenarios planning, Strategy
This is a tale of missed opportunity. It features an emerging trend, an industry struggling to grow and short-term decision making. In March 2017, we picked up chatter about a concept that we thought would interest the insurance industry. We interviewed the UCLA...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 28, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Design Thinking, future thinking, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation trends, Product development
Five years ago, the then UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced that the Government would invest in the north of the country, to drive economic and business development into a region that, to some people’s minds, had been forgotten for too long. The...
by Tristan Allen | Jun 27, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation trends, Product development, Product lifecycle
This may be a bit uncomfortable for some of you, so let’s start by talking about something that many people find funny. I’m from Cornwall, and for many years there’s been a small but vocal movement for Cornish independence from the UK. Funny? It depends who you are...
