Our practical hacks, tools, and frameworks were designed through more than 15 years of consulting on innovation for startups and multinationals.
These last weeks have been, hectic and you’ve seen me posting a bit less than usual. Among other things, I spent quite some time giving webinars to a few of our industrial customers in Europe. The need to address innovation programs retooling is quite pressing for everyone. A part
Since the first edition of my white paper about strategic mentoring in 2015, I have observed, designed and supported many mentoring programs. Organizations who had managed to incorporate mentoring as part of their culture seemed to have navigated the COVID-19 crisis much better than others. This second edition of the
Since 2009, I’ve been giving a few times a year a class on business model design for the executive MBA students of Kedge Business School, in Marseille, Paris, and Shanghai. It’s usually a fully packed 3-day class where we discuss the difference between managers and leaders as the
In this 5th video in the #emotionsatwork series, I am sharing a simple technique to help you rewire your thinking, re-evaluate a situation and upgrade your response to emotional events, whilst staying authentic and true to your values. It is about embodying your values even in the midst of emotional
I very often discussed this logic for innovators: start with the problem then explain your added value as you solve it, and lastly describe the product as the how to do it. This is your strategy; this is also your innovation marketing. If there’s a difference, you’re doing
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Here are the last two videos (in French) extracted from the mentoring webinar [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/mentoring-101/] with VĂ©ronique 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.
Mentoring is talked about in so many contexts and with so many different forms that I feel it is key to come back to basics. Here are two short videos (in French) extracted from a much longer webinar / interview with VĂ©ronique Chapelain, Director of Executive Talents Development at PĂ´le emploi
Mentoring is not just about career development. Mentoring is, first and foremost, a dialogue, a mutually beneficial relationship, and a shared learning experience. And when you multiply that practice so that it reaches a critical mass in your organisation, then you are creating a culture that lives and breathes feminine
I wrote in 2016 about one of the tools we use to define the four types of problems innovators focus on. As I explained then, this kind of tool is admittedly a cheap sleight of hand. We reduce the complexity of the market to just four simple options. But this
Since 2007, we’ve designed and delivered many corporate trainings for execs and management teams on innovation, strategy, culture change, etc. They were rarely stand-alone programs, but were always designed to support a consulting mission we had with a company. Following that, their goal has always been to allow the
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This article presents our innovation framework, which we’ve been using and refining since 2009. I already made a case in 2016 for letting go of the now generic business model canvas. Long story short: it’s a fantastic training tool. As such, it’s very open and can be
1. Do not write for an audience I know this goes against all good marketing advice, which say  “you should know your audience”, “you should speak their language”, etc. Etc. You know that already. But somehow too much empathy leads to self-censorship. And writing is about self-expression, so you see