Our practical hacks, tools, and frameworks were designed through more than 15 years of consulting on innovation for startups and multinationals.
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I don't write enough about the luxury market, although when I look back at all those years, I've been pretty active on various (always exciting) missions. The sector's need for secrecy certainly doesn't help. But also, I'm coming at it
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A new innovation prompt this week using the concept of bisociation. Never heard of the term? Exactly!
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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,
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I had on hold for quite a few weeks an article on how I sometimes use some tools to help generate and challenge business ideas or formulate different business models around new technology. One of the tools I've been using for years is the TRIZ methodology. It'
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I often used a simple trick when discussing turbulent zones in any market and trying to monitor as weak signals might become trends. I check how many events have been recently going on on a quick PESTEL checklist. If more than 3 or 4 of the letters have been checked
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I'm taking a few days off this week. Still, I wanted to share a simple reminder of how we often see innovation as a customer-driven process. And in so many cases, it's anything but.
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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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In October 2012, I was already writing about the Lean Startup and the whole MVP fallacy. As I still get many questions about it, it's probably worth translating the article from French (with some cleaning up) and sharing it again.
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This week we're done with the GAFAMs and ChatGPT! Let's go back to a key innovation mindset component and some tools. I give you the Kobayashi Maru dilemma... (and yes, I briefly considered trolling Star Trek fans with a Star Wars picture 😱).
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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.
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When I started to travel and regularly work in Shanghai back then, many things were surprising in how technology was developed and incorporated into everyday life. Many things that would later make China a tech super-power were junky at best. But they were there, burgeoning from duct tape, exposed wires,
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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