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...
by Tristan Allen | May 3, 2020 | Company lifecycle, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation workshops
Back on the 6th of February we posted a blog called ‘The way you do anything is the way you do everything. Innovation in 2020’ and reminded you that 2020 was 10% done already. Unfortunately, it’s also true that nothing we know in May was how we...
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...
