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
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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
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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
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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
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Last week, I shared the first part of Lucas den Boer’s rich interview. Here is part two where you will continue to read how he is using complexity intelligence skills such as strategic empathy, reconfigurable mindset and purposeful self-confidence to lead large scale business transformations at Atos, but also
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For this second transformation leader interview, I met with Lucas den Boer, currently Business Transformation Executive (C-level consultant) at Atos Benelux HQ in Amstelveen just South of Amsterdam. After a short tour through their atrium cafeteria and innovation rooms where they receive their clients for demo, we sat for an
In 1962, Avis facing the giant Hertz, was steadily moving out of the market. They pushed back and framed real manifestos devoid of corporate jargon: No.2ism. We are in the rent a car business, playing second fiddle to a giant. Above all, we’ve had to learn how to
I am very much surprised to see many analysts thinking seriously that Facebook facing a colossal data gate, could turn around and suddenly become customer-driven. This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Facebook will be Facebook. But to understand that, you must go past obvious solutionism (they should
For this first in the series of interviews of Transformation Leaders, I interviewed, at Airbus’ Leadership University, Laurent Fradin, Digital Transformation Leader, from the newly created Digital Transformation Office at Airbus. [We got the] digital wave in our face… [let’s] surf the wave… He calls himself a “communication guy”
