by Tristan Allen | Nov 19, 2021 | Company lifecycle, Future forecasting, future thinking, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, scenario planning, Strategy
Maybe now it’s time to think about innovation. Pivoting to grow Being honest, if room44 had stayed wedded to its core business at the start of 2019, we probably wouldn’t be here today. When the pandemic shut the UK economy down, we had already opened a new venture...
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 | Jun 2, 2020 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, General, 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 | Mar 19, 2020 | Design Thinking, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation coaching, Innovation consulting
Plan for normality and keep a focus on the future, whenever and whatever that might be. The highly unusual situation we’re in isn’t forever. It’d be foolish to underestimate the effect that COVID-19 is having and will continue to have on our day-to-day...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 21, 2019 | Design Thinking, Future landscaping, General, Innovation consulting, Innovation strategy, Innovation training
Our passive drift towards a world where sensors, monitors and machine learning pose a real challenge to innovating companies. Trust is a testimonial The signals from our research on future trends tell us that commerce for new brands is going to get tougher. While...
