by Tristan Allen | Dec 17, 2021 | General, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development, Product lifecycle, Scenarios planning
Right through COVID-19 lockdowns, established, proactive business has been morphing into new versions of itself. At the same time, start-ups have been making huge noise. Individuals and groups of entrepreneurs are re-starting, re-surging, re-energising and finding new...
by Tristan Allen | Mar 10, 2021 | Consumer insight, Future landscaping, Innovation consulting, Innovation training, Innovation workshops, scenario planning
Without catalysts, the facts you see are the facts as they are – not as they will be. The analysis was right, but the facts were wrong. If you’ve read much of room44’s content over the last few years, you’ll know that our passion is revealing insight and trends from...
by Tristan Allen | Jan 12, 2021 | Future forecasting, General, Innovation consulting, Innovation workshops, scenario planning, Strategy
Expo 2020 posed 50 questions that were relevant when the organisers were planning the event. Since then, Expo 2020 has been postponed by a year and many of the known knowns have become irrelevant or accelerated. Take a look at the attached list of 50 questions...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 25, 2020 | Design Thinking, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, ideation, Innovation consulting, Innovation workshops
Times are tough and nothing is as it was, so it’s understandable that brands are taking a long, hard look at what they do next. We get that. But when you write to us, or occasionally call, to say, ‘We’re planning an ideation session/hackathon/creative competition and...
by Tristan Allen | Aug 20, 2020 | Future forecasting, future thinking, General, ideation, Innovation training, Innovation workshops
The next few months are impossible to predict and therefore difficult to plan, so think different. Blend specialism with generalism. When I got my first job, the first thing my bank did was send me a credit card: instant debt. So I started to run my finances like many...
by Tristan Allen | Jul 19, 2020 | Company lifecycle, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation training, Innovation workshops
I don’t mean, hey wake up and smell the coffee – you’re going out of business!!! I mean, change is happening and you are being affected. There’s an opportunity to innovate if you read the signs of disruption and act before your approach becomes “an exaggerated...
