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 | Jun 6, 2020 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation consulting, scenario planning, Strategy
Enforced or voluntary migration puts people into survival mode and catalyses market disruption and growth in the places they go to. The job losses due to COVID-19 present an opportunity for those who have been forced to move on. Your ex-staff are your new competitors....
by Tristan Allen | Jun 2, 2020 | Case Studies, Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, scenario planning
New normal Inevitably, the events of the last three months have disrupted business and personal planning. Unprecedented circumstances have that effect. Just before the world went into COVID-19-enforced lockdown, the UK was fixated on Brexit and guess what? It...
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 5, 2020 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training, scenario planning, Strategy
With restrictions on social movement in place, isolation means different things to different people. Furloughed Being sent home and furloughed means no work, some money and lots of time to spend with family or to get creative in. Working from home means spending all...
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...
