A list of articles for innovation practitioners with a few years of experience who wants to get beyond the usual buzzwords and weak sauce concepts with practical tools and concepts.
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I know what you think. Self-driving and autonomous cars have been promised with such enthusiasm that we'd thought they'd be all around already in 2020. Then... it got complicated. As a fair disclosure, I was also adamant about their fast propagation... in China (and maybe Japan)
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It's 2023, and we still haven't learned much about social media or what is called in Silicon Valley lingo "tech" platforms. We got used to personal data leaks, bots posing as your friends, election meddling, hate speech, and far more. From Facebook to Twitter
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Just last week, I was pointing at a few bubbles of risks that were about to burst. One of them was how citizens in Paris would react to the mayor asking them if they want to keep or reject micromobility solutions (as in fleet of e-scooters). 📈 A daily slice of
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I often discuss how uncertainties bubble up in unpredictable ways in any market, if only to explain that, non, you can't pipeline innovation. Today, I was even surprised myself by the number of unexpected events in the news. In no specific order: 🤖 The quite spectacular $52 billion U.
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As ChatGPT unexpectedly tumbled out of stealth mode a few weeks ago, a few enormous flashpoint discussions are looming. One of them? Copyrights. Being anything but an expert in the matter, today, I wanted to simply share an article from Helen JIANG that details how copyright laws were born in
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Digital, digital, digital! For most, it seems to be black magic, or worse, a concept so simple that everyone gets it now! Well, it's neither (even if I'm not entirely sure about black magic). Let me share a framework on 'what is digital' that I've been refining for a few years...
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I evoked last week how clever expedients are useful for innovators, and I wanted to share one example this Friday. It's a simple brain twister Shell developed when bright people were roaming their offices. It can be used as a game or interactive facilitation technique about how a
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I still feel that intrapreneurship is discussed as a very narrow and generic practice within corporate innovation circles, when it's a wide and proteiform continuum. Here I'll try to map a few iconic types of programs I have had to implement (or been involved with) since 2012.
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One of the most requested frameworks I often have from corporate customers is how Gartner's hype and innovation diffusion work together. To my knowledge, this is weirdly never discussed. So despite this summer's heat waves here goes...
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Not quite the summer's read for the beach (I know, I know) but an important article for startups and corporate innovators nonetheless. Why innovate if you don't bring change in the market at scale after all? And how do you plan for scale?
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This week, let's share one of the tools of the trade of business model innovation. It's a quick and super-efficient template to help industrials create value out of services, not engineering products. Which is always quite culturally challenging for many of them.
If you read this blog – or better, if you've been working with us – you know that we frequently rely on our innovation and culture frameworks. Both are designed to highlight the core mechanisms at play in strategizing an innovation project, connecting the dots with operations, and serving as