by Tristan Allen | Jun 28, 2019 | Company lifecycle, Design Thinking, future thinking, Innovation, Innovation consulting, Innovation trends, Product development
Five years ago, the then UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced that the Government would invest in the north of the country, to drive economic and business development into a region that, to some people’s minds, had been forgotten for too long. The...
by Tristan Allen | Mar 27, 2018 | Consumer insight, Future forecasting, Future landscaping, future thinking, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy, Innovation trends, scenario planning, Scenarios planning, Strategic endpoint
We meet regularly to review client responses to questions we ask. It’s one way of being able to form aggregate views of companies and markets that aren’t available to anybody else – even the deep web. When we talk to project personnel, we gather perspectives that are...
by Tristan Allen | Nov 22, 2017 | future thinking, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy
You might call it scenarios planning, market mapping or simply cutting the risk of innovation. Either way, how you anticipate future market development, how you fit into it and how you cut the risk of innovation, is what sets you apart. It isn’t always a...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 30, 2017 | General, Innovation coaching, Innovation consultancy
Innovation is more than the MVP. It’s all about where you plan to go, not where you start out. In the maker and entrepreneurial world right now, there is pressure to ship. If you aren’t shipping, you aren’t creating an audience or a customer base. The minimal viable...
by Tristan Allen | Oct 11, 2017 | Future forecasting, future thinking, General, Innovation consultancy, Innovation strategy
This is the second in a short series of weekly posts discussing each stage of the Design Thinking process. In the first article in this mini-series I challenged the absolute structure of the process and suggested that our ability to empathise with a subject is...
