Weak Signals
For years I've been consulting and working on how to crack the code for blending technology and digital with luxury. I might just have a fair idea of how to get there now (and no, it's not easy).
Weak Signals
As every year, last July, I shared a list of five books to boost your innovation mindset. Let's update the list with five new books that you might find interesting if you've been reading us for a while or just started. Â My mindset when recommending books
Culture
Some stories read like a joke but also illustrate entirely different corporate cultures and innovation strategies. In 2019, Facebook (now Meta) announced the launch of Libra, a proprietary cryptocurrency to be launched in 2020. After the second or third rebranding (Novi), trying to package the whole project through different third-parties
Technology rarely gets into the market where we planned or thought it would. As of 2022, self-driving individual cars and taxis are still in prototype mode worldwide (although now legal in a few regions from China to California). But if quite underwhelming in regards to the industry's grand
Culture
Porsche is doing something interesting in the market. While most automakers dabbed into startups with hackathons (#killmenow), mostly failed or underappreciated intrapreneurship programs, and plain venture investment, Porsche is getting to the next step. They aim to launch six real startups within the next three years in partnership with the
For the last years, most startup ecosystems accepted that trying to birth the next Facebook was mission impossible. The password to the future was deeptech. Not anymore. Let's try to understand why "diptech" is the new black.
Hot Takes
The NASDAQ shedding 30% of its value overnight has had a wonderful consequence for startups: every single investor now only speaks of unit economics. And Europe is now following suit. For most startups, the novelty is a system shock. We are talking about the end of pitching a future business
Hot Takes
Well, here we are – or more precisely, here they are. Be assured that I'm not going to add comments to the flood of discussions and analysis. Not to mention that although my personal feelings about how the U.S. is dangerously becoming a sh*thole country (to quote
Hot Takes
The European Commission is about to present a new policy roadmap for innovation ecosystems called "A New European Innovation Agenda." The incentive is clear: European innovation ecosystems are still not on par with US ones. It would be a long (undoubtedly interesting) discussion to understand what's
I've been saying that Tesla is not a car company for many years. The car is admittedly an essential moving piece (pun intended) of their business, but it's only the product. Tesla is, first and foremost, an energy company monetized with high-end electric cars. Their crucial
Toolbox
This week, let's share one of the tools of the trade of business model innovation. It's a quick and super-efficient template to help industrials create value out of services, not engineering products. Which is always quite culturally challenging for many of them.
Culture
For many years we have seen many approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, from unconscious biases training to evangelize about the benefits of diversity in the boardroom. Whilst understanding the benefits of DEI creates awareness and potentially motivates people, leaders, and organizations to initiate some changes in themselves, it is