Hot Takes
I often discuss how uncertainties bubble up in unpredictable ways in any market, if only to explain that, non, you can't pipeline innovation. Today, I was even surprised myself by the number of unexpected events in the news. In no specific order: 🤖 The quite spectacular $52 billion U.
Strategy
This week in the newsletter, I detail the key points of my latest keynote on corporate incubation.
Hot Takes
As ChatGPT unexpectedly tumbled out of stealth mode a few weeks ago, a few enormous flashpoint discussions are looming. One of them? Copyrights. Being anything but an expert in the matter, today, I wanted to simply share an article from Helen JIANG that details how copyright laws were born in
Hot Takes
I'll present a keynote at Tech Summit Amsterdam tomorrow (March 28). The title is '5 Practical Steps To Ensure Your Corporate Innovation Program Is Not Killed After 18 Months' (yes, that's a mouthful). I'll explain how to get your corporate incubation program
Hot Takes
We've discussed for years how Silicon Valley and the local fauna of tech bros have become a toxic force for the global innovation ecosystem. From focusing only on short-term pizza-delivery businesses, building up unprofitable platforms trying to blitzscale their way to de facto monopolies, or pure and simple
Newsletter
Digital, digital, digital! For most, it seems to be black magic, or worse, a concept so simple that everyone gets it now! Well, it's neither (even if I'm not entirely sure about black magic). Let me share a framework on 'what is digital' that I've been refining for a few years...
Hot Takes
For the last five years, I've been trying to decide if I would entirely stop working with startups, keep a regular but minimal activity, or keep on trucking and running (or participating) in various programs totaling about 120 startups a year. Spoiler alert, the answer is a little
Hot Takes
This is a quick update to signal that I'll speak at Tech Summit Europe, Amsterdam, on March 28. The event is held at the Postillion hotel and business center in the city's south business and financial district (about 20 min away from the central station with
Newsletter
As we share our more recent customer cases, I am taking the opportunity to reflect on the critical strategic learnings about implementing mentoring at scale. Our approach with Thales Avionics was slightly different than the one we started with Worldline back in 2014, so I thought it was worth giving
Hot Takes
As often discussed, disruptions are vastly counterintuitive as we see them as sudden and unexpected, while they are always slow to bubble up. Regarding artificial intelligence, we can believe or not that Microsoft and ChatGPT are now racing ahead, but we might want to go back to the big picture.
Toolbox
In October 2012, I was already writing about the Lean Startup and the whole MVP fallacy. As I still get many questions about it, it's probably worth translating the article from French (with some cleaning up) and sharing it again.
Newsletter
This week we're done with the GAFAMs and ChatGPT! Let's go back to a key innovation mindset component and some tools. I give you the Kobayashi Maru dilemma... (and yes, I briefly considered trolling Star Trek fans with a Star Wars picture 😱).