Beginner
🟢 The pace layers of innovation
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.
Toolbox
Our practical hacks, tools, and frameworks were designed through more than 15 years of consulting on innovation for startups and multinationals.
🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 3
The last entry in our innovation portfolio series deals with the most important of it all: your organizational culture.
Advanced
From business model to flywheel effect
If you read this blog – or better, if you've been working with us – you know that we frequently rely on our innovation and culture frameworks. Both are designed to highlight the core mechanisms at play in strategizing an innovation project, connecting the dots with operations, and serving as
Toolbox
🟢 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!
Toolbox
🟢 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...
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As tech crosses the chasm
A key innovation signal is when technology gets past a certain point of adoption with early adopters and finds a beachhead to the early core market. This transition is what makes or breaks an innovation--adopting the 'new' by said core market. In 1991, Geoffrey Moore was the first
Weak Signals
Where's the crutch technology?
I wrote about NFT technology yesterday and didn't want to get too much in the weeds in an already long post. Still, I'd like to point at a key concept that startups and corporate innovators often miss: the crutch technology. When you're pushing a
Expert
🟢 The explore/exploit fallacy in innovation
I'm encountering more and more this explore/exploit framework with the innovation departments of large corps. Explore/exploit means that they are two modes in the organization. Some teams will be in the first one, while the rest of the organization will be in the other: Thank you,
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Report 📄
Our Mobility-as-a-Service Report (MaaS) commissioned by the French National Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME [https://www.ademe.fr/en]) and the General for Infrastructure, Transport, and the Sea (DGITM [https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/direction-generale-des-infrastructures-des-transports-et-mer-dgitm] ) is now available. It was researched and produced with my friends Julien de Labaca [http:
Startup Web Training
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.
Market predictions with systemic bottleneck analysis
A few days ago, I discussed [https://www.icopilots.com/covid-19-whos-going-to-recover-profit-or-disappear/] how systemic bottleneck analysis could be a reliable way to make market predictions in a high uncertainty context. While I’m often baffled that consulting firms never really share how the prediction sausage is made, I truly believe it’
Covid-19, Who’s going to recover, profit or disappear?
I’ll be giving tomorrow a free public webinar on my next Covid-19 predictions, in partnership with Kedge Business School EMBA at 12:30 PM (CET). The talk will be about predictions as it is the fun part, but the key idea for me is to share some perspectives on