Weak Signals
Beware of the apostles of the future
As we are approaching the end of the year and our 1,000th blog article (🤯), I wanted to focus more on how we perceive and use the future as innovators.
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The future is never hindered by a lack of technology
In just a few weeks, it will be ten years that I'm using the example of lab-grown meat to explain Moore's law and other derivative tech power laws. Start in 2013 with a €250,000 small burger entirely grown in a lab from beef cells that
Weak Signals
Dipping your strategic toes in the future
As we are approaching the end of the year and our 1,000th blog article (🤯), I wanted to focus more on how we perceive and use the future as innovators.
Hot Takes
The acceleration fallacy
These last few days, there have been several comparisons about how fast ChatGDP reached 1 million users, and you probably caught a few of those. ChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just 5 days. To compare, it took Netflix 41 months, FB - 10 months, and Instagram - 2.5
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🟢 When luxury innovates the second-hand market
Changing your posture in the market, extending new offers to some of the customers you were not reaching out to directly, or simply innovating your services rarely feels groundbreaking. Yet it's a vast field of untapped opportunities.
Strategy
The truth about the first-mover advantage
In 1988, Marvin B. Lieberman and David B. Montgomery, both eminent professors at Stanford Business School, theorized the notion of first-mover advantage (FMA) in a ground-breaking article. The idea gets hold of the collective mind of innovators and business strategists as a core law of nature: pioneering firms would generate
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Midjounrey, Chatgpt, and the pressure cooker effect of rupture innovation
All the recent commotion about midjourney, dall-e, stable diffusion or (even more recently) chatgpt is rather interesting. ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users! — Sam Altman (@sama) December 5, 2022 The current hype illustrates perfectly the core laws of rupture innovation. 1. Ruptures are fuelled by a
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The teslanomics of electric trucks
You have probably read that Tesla is finally delivering its full electric class 8 semi-trailer truck, only three years late. And among the many reasons this truck has been delivered with such tardiness, one of them is probably worth remembering: the battery physics and economics simply didn't work.
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7 Questions to map your future
I evoked last week how clever expedients are useful for innovators, and I wanted to share one example this Friday. It's a simple brain twister Shell developed when bright people were roaming their offices. It can be used as a game or interactive facilitation technique about how a
Weak Signals
🟢 How (removing) friction is the secret sauce to digital innovation
Digital has become such a force that we've become blinded and frequently fail to understand the core mechanisms at play. Sometimes though, these mechanisms cut both ways. Let's discuss how removing friction is critical to leverage digital and can also become toxic.
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The Model Y as a Big Mac index
I wanted to share an interesting snapshot from Bloomberg discussing the cost of a Tesla Model as a Big Mac index. The Big Mac index is a proxy often used to discuss purchasing power parity between different countries by comparing the price of the famous burger. Given that McDonald'
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The problem(s) with ideation in innovation programs
Whether you deal with an intrapreneurship program or another flavor of corporate innovation, chances are that you are starting with an ideation phase. Over the years, the very existence of such an initial step has become a vividly blinking red flag for me. The reasons are that ideation is... 1.