by Tristan Allen | Jan 24, 2022 | Consumer insight, General, Product development
If you’ve read any of room44’s output you’ll know that we run a diversified business model across sectors that include eBike sales and service under the www.fullycharged.com brand. Across the Fully Charged business and particularly Fully Charged...
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 | Jun 15, 2020 | Company lifecycle, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Product development, scenario planning
Supply chains and the hospitality market are decoupling, signalling a resurgence of mindful consumption in a high street near you. New demand will bring back variety to the domestic landscape. Twelve weeks ago you: probably had to explain what a Zoom meeting...
by Tristan Allen | Nov 12, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Design Thinking, Future landscaping, Innovation coaching, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development, Product lifecycle, scenario planning, Strategy
As you sit down to write your 2020 budget plan, ask yourself this question: how different will this plan make us look by this time next year? It’s likely, in many cases, that the answer is, ‘it won’t.’ This is something we can help to change. Here’s why and here’s...
by Tristan Allen | Nov 11, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Innovation workshops, Product development, Product lifecycle, scenario planning, Strategy
Retail space is display space. Not selling space. It’s three years since British Home Stores went into administration. Three years, and so many signals that UK retail is not in a happy place, yet successive retail failures quickly followed. The demise of Toys ‘R’ Us...
by Tristan Allen | Sep 13, 2019 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, Innovation trends, Product development, Product lifecycle, Scenarios planning, Strategic endpoint, Strategy
At room44 we have to maintain an agnostic view of every client’s business. To deliver landscaping strategies that present our customers with perspectives they couldn’t see for themselves, by themselves, and to be able to extrapolate an idea into a product concept that...