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🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 2
In this second part of our series on how to build a proper corporate innovation portfolio, we are talking numbers, critical mass of projects, and optionality over serendipity!
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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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🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 1
Few corporations have been capable of transitioning from a pipeline to an innovation portfolio. We can blame well-known business books for oversimplifying the issues at stake, but also, the non-linearity of a portfolio strategy genuinely baffles most executives. Let's share some insights...
🟢 Mentoring design
Mentoring is not just about career development. Mentoring is, first and foremost, a dialogue, a mutually beneficial relationship, and a shared learning experience. And when you multiply that practice so that it reaches a critical mass in your organisation, then you are creating a culture that lives and breathes feminine
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🟢 My perspectives on the future of the digital economy in 42 bullet-points
🔳 Our culture framework
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
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Corporate Incubation is Like Fruit Flies Genetics
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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How to deal with startup fever in your company, part 1
While the first wave of the digital revolution is now well over, most corporations are victims of some level of rude awakening. Surprisingly enough for me, the sovereign cure for their lack of strategic vision has been isolated: startups. As it seems, six-month-old post-internet companies without cash-flow are deemed better
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🟢 4 Keys to boost your reverse mentoring programme
After a few years designing and supporting reverse mentoring programmes, many of the same issues keep coming back. Reverse mentoring is often a great strategy to support the digital transformation of an organisation since it connects senior decision makers with junior digital natives. The idea is simple, by encouraging cross-generational
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🟢 The keys to avoid mentoring matches hell
So you’ve started a mentoring programme and managed to create some mentor-mentee pairs… After a few months, you notice that some pairs are ok, some others or even many others are not seeing each other regularly, or even haven’t gone passed the first meeting. It may be a
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🔴 Writing your corporate incubation playbook – Part 2
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