I’m often surprised to see leading companies with solid innovation programs missing obvious market turnarounds. They record the same weak signals and trends that I do, they understand them as well or better than I do, but they fail to act on them appropriately. In my experience, the key
Natasha JEN formulates a very calm and articulate deconstruction of the design thinking craze. Just like open innovation, lean methodologies, effectuation, or intrapreneurship… design thinking is a methodology that is better at selling the idea that there is a one-size-fits-all solution to every corporate strategic hurdle than actually delivering anything
Worldline [https://worldline.com] has been one of the key customers I’ve been implementing a company-wide strategic mentoring program (you will spot me here and there presenting, gesticulating and laughing in the short video). During the last four years, I’ve been starting up, designing, implementing, training, tweaking, measuring
We discussed in the previous article the idea of the weak singularity, where all connected devices tend to be harvested by a few massive platforms as a global sensor network targeting us for ads (or broader influence strategies). The follow-up of this trend is what we call Platforms’ Dark Patterns,
As I did mid-year 2017 [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/my-innovation-radar-for-2017], I will start today a discussion on what I have on my innovation radar. This is what I believe will shape both B2B and B2C markets for the next two to three years. Unlike last year, I will split it
Philippe had been hinting at one of the combined tools we’d like to share: the culture and innovation frameworks. The culture framework that we’ve been using for years informally when helping organisations in their strategic transformations is the “other side” of the innovation framework Philippe has been sharing
Among other things, China's innovation now leads the on-demand mobility revolution with more and more electric vehicles and… bikes. While I was already forewarning my customers in luxury, automotive, energy, and retail for years, this is hopefully obvious for everyone. The country's size, the problems it
Strategy
I won’t develop fully the tools and how to use them in this article. It’s all about giving a first tour of the concepts and how simple they are. The first illustration is how powerful CUSTOMER-driven companies (Amazon) connect their culture, leading with strategic empathy to identify emerging
After Google this is now Microsoft that tries to wow us with their vision of the future, introducing Surface Hub 2. Past the obvious elegance and desirability of the product we have to ask if Microsoft will manage to regain its splendor. The strategy is now more and more obvious:
Your innovation culture is as good as you are at holding two opinions at the same time on weak signals, until they are sorted out by the market. This implies that you monitor weak signals. This also implies you know how to form opinions about them and are not afraid
Strategy
In August 2011, Marc ANDRESSEN [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen] was famously forewarning us in the Wall Street Journal that software is eating the world. Since then his prediction came to full realization and whether you call it the web, digital, or data, software indeed ate the
Toolbox
Most industrial market have endured their own Copernican revolution lately. Whether it was because of mobile, sheer customers discontent or the future threat of artificial intelligence, is of no real importance at this point. What is clear is that the old innovation playbook involving trickling down military technology to B2B