How to see markets beyond the curve, catch weak signals, and anticipate turnarounds to leverage change and disruptions
If you’ve read any business book in your life, it’s painfully obvious that the industry has been trying to offset the problem of relying on predictive business plans to innovate, (a) forever and (b) without much success. Everything that has been written about business has been connected to
Clayton Christensen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Christensen] passed away two days ago. I will have never met him. And as influential as he was for many of us on innovation strategy, I thought it would be interesting to remember that he was not only focused on that.
It’s starting to be clearer for everyone that the GAFA are not “startups” anymore, but incumbents in defensive mode. While I was exploring this as an early signal in mid-2018, the platforms’ dark patterns [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/my-innovation-radar-2018-part-2-platforms-dark-patterns/] are now shamelessly visible. Just recently, Google has been tweaking
The narrative of David vs. Goliath has been constantly used to describe how startups and industries interact with each other. Startups are frail but smart and nimble, and industrials are powerful but slow-moving, yada yada... You know the story. In 2013, I read the latest Malcolm Gladwell book on this
The CES (Consumer Electronic Show) is held annually in Las Vegas. Journalists flock to the event and bombard social media with pictures, articles, and videos of improbable products that will never see the light of the market. Historically, the rock stars of the show have been connected to fridges and
I’m glad to be sharing this article about Claire Déprez, Innovative Management Programme Leader at Worldline, the youngest of the transformation leaders I’ve interviewed. I’ve met Claire in 2014 when she was a mentee in the mentoring pilot programme I designed for them. The year after, she
Uber is intended to hit the stock market at a valuation of $82.4bn. Here’s a few things to keep in mind: The target valuation was initially $100bn, but since Lyft was introduced on the stock market on March 28 and lost already 27% of its initial valuation, Uber
Am I the only one that wonder why we still ask rock-star CEOs what was their recipe for success? I understand the father figure thing. But the 2019 market, its digital environment and socio-economics have nothing much to do with what they had to face in 2004. What can a
Weak Signals
In a recent article on Medium called The End of the Ad-Supported Web, Julien Genestoux puts the finger on many things I was obsessing with these last few months about ad monetization. You may want to read the article first; my additional comments are below. The main gripe with ad
For this fifth interview of a transformation leader, I met with Karin Parmentier. Do not be fooled by her French-sounding surname she is a straight talking, to the point, Dutch woman who developed her HR transformation expertise with Deloitte, and now with her own company and partners, she is transforming
Two weeks ago I had to rent a car from Hertz. It was one of the blandest experience I’ve had with a customer desk in a very long time. This is not a rant on Hertz or this particular team. I could guess that my customer experience by all
As many professionals in my field, I get this question a lot: « What is the most common misconception about innovation? » The short answer is that most of the time, innovation is discussed and operated as a single thing. It’s not. It’s a complex blend of diverse forms of