Our practical hacks, tools, and frameworks were designed through more than 15 years of consulting on innovation for startups and multinationals.
I have already published a few things about the notion of opposable marketing, which, to frame it, just asks the question: do you say something meaningful to your market? Being cost-efficient, having good quality, paying attention to customers, etc. All that means nothing. Because no one does the opposite of
Philippe had been hinting at one of the combined tools we’d like to share: the culture and innovation frameworks. The culture framework that we’ve been using for years informally when helping organisations in their strategic transformations is the “other side” of the innovation framework Philippe has been sharing
Advanced
Most industrial market have endured their own Copernican revolution lately. Whether it was because of mobile, sheer customers discontent or the future threat of artificial intelligence, is of no real importance at this point. What is clear is that the old innovation playbook involving trickling down military technology to B2B
As announced last month, the white paper Mentoring by FabMob (La Fabrique des Mobilités), an organization aiming to facilitate learning and innovation for actors of the mobility sector, is finally available for all to download [https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/FabMob/fab-mob-livreblancmentorat5] (those who read French anyway for now). Here
Beginner
As we discussed the difference between a minimum viable product (MVP) and a minimum viable business to begin the week, I thought it would be interesting to go back to an evergreen article from 2018 on General Electric and how the lean startup principles ended up being rather fatal to them.
Expert
Toolbox
While the first wave of the digital revolution is now well over, most corporations are victims of some level of rude awakening. Surprisingly enough for me, the sovereign cure for their lack of strategic vision has been isolated: startups. As it seems, six-month-old post-internet companies without cash-flow are deemed better
After a few years designing and supporting reverse mentoring programmes, many of the same issues keep coming back. Reverse mentoring is often a great strategy to support the digital transformation of an organisation since it connects senior decision makers with junior digital natives. The idea is simple, by encouraging cross-generational
Toolbox
Follow this link [https://www.meetup.com//en-AU/Darmstadt-InnovationM-Round-Table/events/239564199/?_locale=en-AU&showDescription=true] for further details.
Two weeks in Shanghai working with dozens of MBA students holding managerial and executive positions in various industries always ground me back to the basics of business. One of the most basic questioning that managers, innovators, or would-be entrepreneurs are asked is: can you explain your business? The answer is
To foster innovation in large corporations, several key and « difficult to get » ingredients need to be gathered: creativity, market awareness and risk mindset whilst being reassuring to existing customers with a solid, efficient structure. Mentoring for innovation not only requires being great at what you are doing but also having
Forget all your romantic ideas about what a good entrepreneurial mentor is: experienced in entrepreneurship, he/she has started several companies in his/her lifetime, has failed a couple of times and learned from it and succeeded enough time to still be active now. He has mentored several startupers so