Not sure that traditional innovation conferences can get there. This means delivering focused keynotes in the context of a) a specific market problem and b) a specific company culture. This is interesting for us and small consultancies in general I guess… As a matter of fact, I also realized that
When I wrote the “Mentoring by FabMob” white paper [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/mentoring-by-fabmob-download-the-white-paper], I was already hinting at an example of use of mentoring to facilitate the cultural integration in the case of acquisition of a new entity. I do not wish to go into the well documented difficulties
To somehow follow-up on yesterday’s post, another question that I find extremely revealing about the strategy of any company is: what’s your key innovation metric? Here again, no room for big formulas or complex constructions. If you have to gauge if your company is doing well on innovation,
Imagine your company has one of the most advanced big data platform you can think of in your market. Imagine you have access to an unparalleled level of insights and forecasts about who your customers are, what they want, and how they think. Here comes the question I’d like
October 2018 cover of the Dutch QUOTE magazine.Just assessing every day how the narrative on startups has been reversed in Europe from « This is how we’re going to save the economy! » to « What is this mess? ». The message we’re not changing entrepreneurship a Startup Weekend at a
Every new startup or tech company that enters a market faces the risk that it will be hacked and its technology subverted beyond its goal. Frustrated Tesla owners openly repair and hack their own cars: https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1048816630174765057 US Farmers trying to fight off John DEERE predatory
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I’m still in the ongoing process of waking up a few of my customers (and the readers of this blog) on why the Chinese market is such a specific and fast one. Three years ago, I was pointing the inexorable move of the Chinese government toward clean energies, and
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In June, I was writing about « Platforms’ Dark Patterns » as a cautionary forecast on how the GAFA / BATX will evolve to sustain their constant push for pervasiveness in our daily lives. Today, Facebook announced « Portal,» an always-on connected home camera to keep in contact with family and friends… through the
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Understanding the Apple Watch is hard. In September 2014, Jean-Claude BIVER, President of LVMH Watchmaking Division (Tag Heuer, Zenith, Hublot), famously said: This [Apple] watch has no sex appeal. It’s too feminine and looks too much like the smartwatches already on the market. To be totally honest, it looks
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After years of working with every kind of startup program — read: incubators, accelerators, tech clusters, public tech transfer, universities, entrepreneurs’ networks, corporate platforms, and various EU initiatives — I keep asking myself: are we still learning anything new about startups? For early stage startups, there are basically only three things to
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A powerful statement from Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie FILS-AIME about what business they are in and who they are competing against: He counted the exact number of minutes per day and said that outside of the time a consumer spends eating, sleeping, working, and going to school,
As many professionals in my field, I get this question a lot: « What is the most common misconception about innovation? » The short answer is that most of the time, innovation is discussed and operated as a single thing. It’s not. It’s a complex blend of diverse forms of