Chloé de Ruffray - What is Trend Research?
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Chloé de Ruffray - What is Trend Research?
The challenge to being ahead of the trend . . . is finding out how does the problem you're solving touch customers' lives. If you are a good systems thinker you can almost always find a point at which that problem connects with something that they care about.
assess each trend against three dimensions—Innovation Target, Priority, and Response—positioning each trend on the CTR accordingly
Proving entails seeking out data, stories, and conversations to validate whether a collection of ideas can justifiably be described as a trend.
people) can we dedicate to the application of this trend? How should this guide how we apply the trend? If we lack the resources to apply this trend, what can we do to change this? What do our customers—and potential customers—expect from us? How could this trend help us serve those expectations or positively change them?
A great trend is a unique curated observation about the accelerating present.