Strategy
Questions are the key for innovation, progress, growth, exploration, and so many business issues and personal development too. For if there is no question, there is no drive to search for answers. For as long as I remember I’ve been a questioner. I’ve questioned myself a lot, learned
Strategy
Let’s kick off 2022 with a few simple reminders about innovation and, more specifically, things you should know by now but that you still might get wrong. I already addressed a few of these ideas these last few years but never in the same article: 1. Customer-centric is a
As Stéphanie did a few days ago [https://www.icopilots.com/looking-back-at-2021-part-1/], I’m going to try to wrap up 2021 with a few highlights and ideas for the next five years. No surprise about the predominance of covid during these last two years in our work, the management of
Our Mobility-as-a-Service Report (MaaS) commissioned by the French National Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME [https://www.ademe.fr/en]) and the General for Infrastructure, Transport, and the Sea (DGITM [https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/direction-generale-des-infrastructures-des-transports-et-mer-dgitm] ) is now available. It was researched and produced with my friends Julien de Labaca [http:
As the year came to a recent close, here are my 2021 highlights in the telegraphic form: from work adaptations to personal achievements as well as challenges and gratefulness. Catch up with you soon! Work Transformed Further Building on our 2020 experiences we launched our Icopilots Webschool [https://icopilots.thinkific.
As a quick end-of-the-year note, I was delighted by the 30 min documentary produced by The Verge on the smartphone early-stage market in the early nineties. It is a fantastic template to understand quite a few things: * How inventors are rarely innovators. * Why early actors mostly can’t see the
Scaling culture change in the industry is a complex process. Everyone understands that this requires time until you need to come up with quick wins nonetheless. A few years ago I was already sharing about a few key ingredients to building a mentoring culture [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/what-it-takes-to-build-a-mentoring-culture-that-delivers] and
While I’m on a semi-summer break, I wanted to answer a request I often have (not only from my MBA students but also from my corporate customers): “Philippe, what kind of books would you recommend to boost our innovation mindset?”. Glad you asked! Here are five of the most
While being the uncontested leader in 2014, by 2020, Samsung had lost China entirely. From an 18% market share of the Chinese mobile phone market in 2014 to a measly 2% in 2018, by 2020, Samsung had virtually disappeared from the Chinese mainland market. What went wrong, and why should
Yesterday, I gave a seminar on rupture innovation for Naval Group; the French defense contractor specialized in naval-based defense platforms. We did not discuss anything specific about their business or any NDA-related issue, so they kindly agreed that I’d share the slides; here they are (in French):
Beginner
After years in the making, months of preparation, and tests, we are officially launching our startup web training program. A web school for entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and innovators.