by Tristan Allen | Jun 27, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Consumer insight, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation trends, Product development, Product lifecycle
This may be a bit uncomfortable for some of you, so let’s start by talking about something that many people find funny. I’m from Cornwall, and for many years there’s been a small but vocal movement for Cornish independence from the UK. Funny? It depends who you are...
by Tristan Allen | May 8, 2018 | future thinking, Innovation coaching, Innovation consulting
One of the things I do as a side gig is to print t-shirts, the old way. Not perfectly Photoshopped, computer-created heat transfers, as most mass-produced (cheap) ones are today. This is a process that involves a craft knife, paper and ink. It creates a unique design...
by Tristan Allen | Dec 28, 2017 | Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, Innovation, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy
Good design or circular design. Lego shows us how. There are more than 11.5 million children under 16 in the UK. Over the course of 2016 they were given, or bought, an average of nine toys each, costing £105 per child on average. That’s £1.9 billion in total. The US...
by Tristan Allen | Nov 27, 2017 | Future forecasting, Future landscaping, Innovation consultancy, Scenarios planning
Read any newsfeed or journal, on any day of any week, and among the top stories will be how Amazon is taking over everything retail. Post-apocalyptic predictions of wasteland shopping malls and the demise of the consumer supply chain are legion. Twenty years ago,...
by Tristan Allen | Sep 6, 2017 | Future forecasting, future thinking, General, Innovation strategy
The second most used resource on this planet after water is – wait for it – sand. Sand is literally the foundation on which our urban landscape is built. Why is this interesting to innovation? In a nutshell, we’re running out. Thinking of sand as a...
