Weak Signals 🟢 Is luxury soluble in technology? In 2015 I discussed to which extent technology could be leveraged by luxury brands and if tech brands could ever invade the luxury space. Let's see where we are in 2022.
Hot Takes There's a (giant) canary in the self-driving coalmine With around 26 million inhabitants, Shanghai is the third-largest city in
Hot Takes Selling pickaxes during the NFT goldrush Surfing on the growing anger about Apple's 30% cut on
Innovation Culture One intrapreneur team, one project? Bad idea. I've helped design, worked with, visited, and oftentimes also rebooted
Innovation Strategy The war for coffee is still raging After two years of a global pandemic, quite a few retail businesses
Toolbox 🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 1 Few corporations have been capable of transitioning from a pipeline to an innovation portfolio. We can blame well-known business books for oversimplifying the issues at stake, but also, the non-linearity of a portfolio strategy genuinely baffles most executives. Let's share some insights...
Innovation Strategy The obvious EV bottleneck I presented last year how the systemic bottleneck analysis [https://www.icopilots.
Amazon Whole Food: it's not about the store dummy Only a few weeks ago closed most of its physical store'
Hot Takes Is Glossier pulling a WeWork? Glossier has been a trailblazer in the beauty market, and Emily Weiss
Toolbox As tech crosses the chasm A key innovation signal is when technology gets past a certain point
Innovation Strategy Seeing beyond Foodtech In 2021 I was working on a comprehensive benchmark of the Foodtech
Weak Signals Where's the crutch technology? I wrote about NFT technology yesterday and didn't want to