by Tristan Allen | Mar 21, 2019 | Consumer insight, Design Thinking, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy, Innovation workshops
Presenting at a trade event gets the creative juices flowing. Sometimes this can be a good thing. Sometimes it leads to other ideas. This is what happened this week. I was invited to present a short deck at Pro2Pac at London’s Excel. Appended to the annual IFE...
by Tristan Allen | Apr 19, 2018 | Future forecasting, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, Strategy
The Internet of Everything is a misnomer. It suggests that everything innovative should be plugged in, and implies that if it isn’t, it’s not worth our time. Digital is everything. Is it really? Solicitors are switched on, but not necessarily plugged in. Can you...
by Tristan Allen | Feb 13, 2018 | Consumer insight, General, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy, Innovation consulting
We’re looking at the plastic packaging industry at the moment. We know we can make a consumer-facing difference here but, to be honest, it’s a hard nut to crack. Nobody wants to take the leap in case they have a price to pay, so all parts of the supply chain...
by Tristan Allen | Jan 25, 2018 | Future forecasting, future thinking, General, Innovation consultancy, Product lifecycle, Scenarios planning
There’s a trend building for 2018 that’s soon going to be part of every innovator’s landscape, not just a few. It has the backing of major design thinkers and of social enterprise campaigners. Even if it hasn’t reached the mainstream or doesn’t sit on your radar yet –...
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...
