Newsletter
My next two weeks in June are pretty busy as they always are before seemingly everyone escapes to their favored action spot overnight. Consecutively, I'll pause the newsletter and the series about my "10 Strategic Insights for 2025" for the next two weeks. It's
Hot Takes
Last July, I was writing about the death of the web. I wasn't alone and it wasn't the first time someone would dare type these oh-so provocative words. The web is dead. Long live the internetThe web -- not to mention social-media apps -- has been
Newsletter
We pursue our exploration of the short-term shifts that will most certainly impact your innovation strategy within the next few years. This week we discuss geopolitics.
Strategy
Google, like many other big corporations, is signaling the end of its big ideas innovation lab. Alphabet’s famed innovation and design lab, X, recognized for pioneering projects such as Waymo and Google Glass, is now pivoting towards transforming its projects into standalone startups. X is a diverse group of
AI
The core insight We are all caught in the current AI hype, and justifiably so. ChatGPT and others already give us a taste of a future when any type of data, as complex and numerous as possible, will be transformed into a simple conversation with an artificial mind giving us
AI
Following the latest Google I/O conference, where the search giant presents its new tools and innovations to the public, the question that was front and center was, "How would Google deal with AI crippling its ad business model?" As I was discussing back in January 2023: The
Strategy
An interesting controversy started two days ago when the latest Apple ad promoting their new iPad model raised hell from... pretty much everyone. The video is the kind of high production value we're accustomed to with Apple, and it shows a huge hydraulic press crunching together musical instruments,
Newsletter
In this series, I will share the nine key insights I deeply believe you should be aware of to drive any business into our short-term and yet very volatile future...
Technology
For the next few weeks, I'm taking up the challenge of explaining all the mechanisms at play that lead a technological invention to become an innovation in the market. Which is probably more difficult than what physicists do when they try to explain the universe : )
Hot Takes
If you still need to understand what a platform is, look no further than Tesla's announcement regarding its supercharger network. Other automakers recently licensed the use for it. Tesla is slowing its deployment. Tesla Axes Most of Supercharger Team in Blow to Other AutomakersTesla Inc. eliminated almost its
Culture
When discussing innovation (changing the market), it's often overlooked that your brand will hold you back, sometimes drastically. A brand embodies your market's tacit and explicit expectations about what you deliver. If in doubt about it, or even if you don't know how much
Technology
For the next few weeks, I'm taking up the challenge of explaining all the mechanisms at play that lead a technological invention to become an innovation in the market. Which is probably more difficult than what physicists do when they try to explain the universe : )