Cover [https://www.cover.build/] is a startup I’ve been following for quite a while. It’s based in Los Angeles and its job is straightforward: > We design, permit, manufacture, and install beautiful backyard homes in Los Angeles. Completely custom to your property, no subcontractors to deal with,
Technology
A quick reminder that my thought-provoking question from 2017: When Star Wars will be shot on iPhone? [https://www.icopilots.com/predicting-when-star-wars-will-be-shot-with-iphones/] is less and less provoking. This is now mainstream Apple marketing, where “shooting” means a movie and now just DSLR-quality pictures: We Are still a few years before
The CES (Consumer Electronic Show) is held annually in Las Vegas. Journalists flock to the event and bombard social media with pictures, articles, and videos of improbable products that will never see the light of the market. Historically, the rock stars of the show have been connected to fridges and
Strategy
If you follow me, you know I was in Lyon (France) last month to be the master of ceremony at BlendWebMix [https://www.blendwebmix.com/]. During two days, the idea of “Tech for Good” was discussed and debated by tech people, designers and businesses. With the strategic help of the
Sébastien MEUNIER [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastien-meunier/] from France 3 TV, asked to me to do a quick interview at #BlendWebMix [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/meet-me-at-blendwebmix/] a few days ago. He asked me what was an “innovation strategist”, how I was making money and a few other things about
I’ll be hosting the BlendWebMix conference in Lyon (France) on November 13 and 14. This year program is about “Tech for Good”. You’ve seen this central theme running with most of the tech conferences lately and it’s probably not going to stop anytime soon. If you’re
Since my TEDx talk Emotions at Work 4-5 years ago, I have been writing a few articles about how emotions can have a very useful place in companies and add value to innovation strategies. What I haven’t written about yet is what I’ve been doing these past few
During my summer break from writing on the blog, I spent a lot of time reading articles on the innovation mindset. Although, it’s encouraging to see this topic gaining traction recently how to define what is a 'mindset' is anything but vague. The way I go about
Strategy
We probably had the famous 5 levels of autonomous vehicles wrong. We often lose track of innovation as a practical and market endeavor, not just a technology benchmark. If up to now, we viewed the progress to full autonomy as a matter of progressively making the driver role disappear, we
Strategy
I’m glad to be sharing this article about Claire Déprez, Innovative Management Programme Leader at Worldline, the youngest of the transformation leaders I’ve interviewed. I’ve met Claire in 2014 when she was a mentee in the mentoring pilot programme I designed for them. The year after, she