by Tristan Allen | Feb 8, 2021 | Future forecasting, General, scenario planning, Strategy
History tells us that the likelihood of most companies surviving much beyond the founder’s involvement is slim. Many businesses get bought, absorbed into other companies or simply fail. In fact, according to John Elkann at Fiat, only 49 companies per million last...
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 | 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 | 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 8, 2020 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, future thinking, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Strategy
At the risk of repeating myself to regular readers, the secret to being a successful innovator is as simple as climbing a 50ft rope and ringing a bell. And just like climbing the rope, innovation is really simple to understand and really hard to do. The answer? Figure...
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...
