Culture
I've helped design, worked with, visited, and oftentimes also rebooted many intrapreneurship programs since 2007. The most central and undiscussed design choice for these programs is that one employee (or a small team) will be their project's internal leader. With some common-sense rules and as light
Strategy
After two years of a global pandemic, quite a few retail businesses show their weaknesses. As Warren Buffet famously said, you find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out. Selling coffee is one of these markets that is heavily shaken. After more than ten years of trying
Toolbox
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...
Strategy
I presented last year how the systemic bottleneck analysis [https://www.icopilots.com/market-predictions-with-systemic-bottleneck-analysis/] was one of the key tools I've been using for years when discussing the future of any market. As a quick refresher: a systemic bottleneck is a turn point event that is building up
Only a few weeks ago closed most of its physical store's tryouts [https://www.icopilots.com/amazon-power-move/], but for Amazon Fresh and Whole Food. At the time, we discussed both the scale at which Amazon operates and their lust for automation. Right on cue, Amazon is pushing for
Hot Takes
Glossier has been a trailblazer in the beauty market, and Emily Weiss considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs of these last years. After creating Into the Gloss, an immensely successful beauty and fashion blog garnering more than 10 million views a month, in 2014, Weiss launched Glossier, a direct-to-market
Toolbox
A key innovation signal is when technology gets past a certain point of adoption with early adopters and finds a beachhead to the early core market. This transition is what makes or breaks an innovation--adopting the 'new' by said core market. In 1991, Geoffrey Moore was the first
Strategy
In 2021 I was working on a comprehensive benchmark of the Foodtech and Agtech ecosystems worldwide for one of the largest biotech clusters in Europe. Think of their role in the market as plucking the best deeptech startups ahead of the curve, bringing them the best nutrients possible to promote
Weak Signals
I wrote about NFT technology yesterday and didn't want to get too much in the weeds in an already long post. Still, I'd like to point at a key concept that startups and corporate innovators often miss: the crutch technology. When you're pushing a
The title of this article should have been: "I tried to write something about NFT technology in less than 10 min, and I failed miserably." I did succeed in going down this huge rabbit hole and back, though. Care to join?
Hot Takes
When I train executives or startupers on building business models, there's always a painful step: understanding that the product is only a feature of the business, not the end-game. This is true to the point that there might be a vast disconnect between the value a company delivers
Weak Signals
Last week, one of my dearest clients, Erasmus Center for Women and Organisations (Rotterdam School of Management), without me having to ask for it, shared about my book on their public Linkedin profile. Beyond the initial ego boost, it made me ask the following questions: how do we raise each