Culture
Last week I was having a deep meaningful conversation with my dear friend Margreeth van der Oord about the “business as usual” state of the world: despite the many crisis, everyone is focused on maintaining life as it is and not many question or act differently. This lead me to
Following up on yesterday's article about Apple WWDC announcements, an obvious – and yet amazing – new possibility is to use an iPhone as a webcam for a Mac. Think about this: How many other platforms do we know that can interoperate software and hardware as seamlessly as that? Apple
After yesterday Apple's WWDC 2022 annual keynote, it's difficult to zoom out from the myriad of software tweaks and products announcement (only a new Mac, really). Let's deep dive into what might have been discretely unveiled. Apple cars.
Hot Takes
In a world shaken by so many struggles, we're starting today a short series questioning the logic and practices of business schools, academia, and executive education.
Hot Takes
Culture
To go even further on the topic of team introspection, I thought I’d share some guidelines or tips to help you and your team. The challenges we want to overcome are: to create trust and dispel fears of negative consequences in order to allow an open and truthful sharing,
Toolbox
Why the different forms of innovation can only move at a different speed. Not so much because some are slower or faster, but because they impact different layers of the market infrastructure.
Hot Takes
For digital platforms aiming to become a global business, the most obvious strategy has been for decades to just run ahead of everyone, reach critical mass as fast as possible, and lock in the market within your platform. If it works, you're a de facto monopoly and should
The last entry in our innovation portfolio series deals with the most important of it all: your organizational culture.
If you read this blog – or better, if you've been working with us – you know that we frequently rely on our innovation and culture frameworks. Both are designed to highlight the core mechanisms at play in strategizing an innovation project, connecting the dots with operations, and serving as
When you work with startups, you sometimes get the impression that everyone is chasing dumb pizza-delivery businesses that will make them rich overnight or investing in improbable moonshot technologies where quantum computing will cure cancer. The boring but important daily stuff? No one really cares about it. If you want
I often feel I'm the only one surprised that no one really cares about monitoring the real survival rate of startups. Most public incubators in Europe will tell you they have around 20% or less failure after five years. But in 2012 a study financed by the European