A list of articles for professionals or founders just entering the innovation field who want to get acquainted with key concepts without getting too much into the weeds yet.
Hot Takes
In just a few days, we'll know if Apple mixed reality goggles is a dead or live Shrödinger's cat. My bet consistently was against such a launch as there is no content nor problem to solve, and Apple never enters a market first. Or when they
Hot Takes
In a seminal keynote from 2011, Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad, became instantaneously famous – or infamous, depending on your current job description – by stating that advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable. The keynote is all over the place and more a stream of consciousness rather than
Newsletter
I often state that for innovators, there's not much difference between strategy and marketing, if any at all. Mostly, innovators don't have much time or bandwidth to get early adopters on board, so they must be practical about what they want to communicate. In my book,
Hot Takes
I was on Twitter for 14 years and five months. I canceled my account yesterday. Is there anything to say that hasn't been said these last few months? Should I have waited for the new CEO (or the one that will come after her) to turn things around?
Hot Takes
This is the weakest flex ever, but our website has been crawled, and its public content scrapped by Google to train its large language mode AI. It also means we've been on the map for all ChatGPT versions and other competing models, trying to catch up on OpenAI.
Newsletter
Gartner Hype Cycle has become a standard tool for most corporations involved in technology (but at this point, who's not?). In my experience, it's still poorly understood and often leads to wishful and sometimes even magical thinking. Let's try to fix that.
Hot Takes
Among the many things that are not much discussed when considering ChatGPT dangers and biases is that it was built from predominantly English-speaking content. Just like China deep learning systems are only working on content in Mandarin, these systems have inherent cultural biases that obviously impact the quality of the
Beginner
One innovation tool we often use is the "canary in the coal mine." I've been illustrating and writing about quite a few in different contexts these last few years but never really explained the tool and how to use it. So, here goes...
Weak Signals
Imagine you're the Mars company, and your best-seller product is the iconic candy bar with nougat and caramel coated with milk chocolate. Now answer this question: Who are your most *direct* competitors? Can you list as quickly as possible five or six of them? I give you a
Beginner
Why the different forms of innovation can only move at a different speed. Not so much because some are slower or faster, but because they impact different layers of the market infrastructure.
Beginner
After years in the making, months of preparation, and tests, we are officially launching our startup web training program. A web school for entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and innovators.
Beginner
Here are the last two videos (in French) extracted from the mentoring webinar [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/mentoring-101/] with Véronique Chapelain from Pole emploi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/veroniquechapelain]. In this last section we discuss how implementing mentoring programmes involves making choices about matching mentors and mentees [https://innovation-copilots.