Newsletter - innovation copilots (Page 7)

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Newsletter

🟢 The year the GAFAM could disappear. Episode 2, Microsoft

In this series of five articles, I will discuss each of the current GAFAMs as 2023 might be the year their reign of supremacy on our life, work, and social connection comes to an end.

Newsletter

🟢 The year the GAFAMs could disappear. Episode 1, Google

In this series of five articles, I will discuss each of the current GAFAMs as 2023 might be the year their reign of supremacy on our life, work, and social connection comes to an end.

Expert

🟢 How to benchmark an innovation ecosystem

To kick off the new year, I wanted to share one of the tools we've used for many years and many different customers. It's about benchmarking an innovation ecosystem.

Newsletter

🟢 Layered learning in service of culture shift

Based on a programme we designed and have been running for a few years with a French administration facing critical changes, let's illustrate and share our approach to layered learning in implementing cultural change.

Strategy

🟢 When luxury innovates the second-hand market

Changing your posture in the market, extending new offers to some of the customers you were not reaching out to directly, or simply innovating your services rarely feels groundbreaking. Yet it's a vast field of untapped opportunities.

Weak Signals

🟢 How (removing) friction is the secret sauce to digital innovation

Digital has become such a force that we've become blinded and frequently fail to understand the core mechanisms at play. Sometimes though, these mechanisms cut both ways. Let's discuss how removing friction is critical to leverage digital and can also become toxic.

Culture

🟢 Adapting your innovation process to different team cultures

Today it's all about a more nuanced and practical discussion on how to apply innovation frameworks depending on which type of team culture you're dealing with. And because we never have much time in innovation, let's boil it down to three types of culture.

Strategy

🟢 What's to learn from how (most) DTC startups failed

Direct-to-Consumer startups (DTC, or sometimes DTM for direct-to-market) were all the craze

Toolbox

🟢 The 12 types of intrapreneurship programs you should know about

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.

Hot Takes

🟢 Five points about Twitter's business model to help you navigate Elon's Musk acquisition

Given the hectic flow of news regarding Elon Musk acquiring Twitter, then not doing it, then finally doing it... I though it'd be interesting to give some pointers about Twitters as a business and what could be the next steps.

Weak Signals

🟢 Just how far can the market's light penetrate your organization?

I'm going back today on the innovation portfolio discussion from a different perspective. The one that is concerned about customer-centricity, why size is an unavoidable problem, and what to do about it.

Toolbox

🟢 The Magic Spot framework

The Magic Spot is the oldest framework I built when I started to consult with startups and then, tried to explain to MBA students there was some logic in the madness.