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My last keynote with the FabMob [http://lafabriquedesmobilites.fr/] program, during a private event involving selected startups and industrials at Autonomy 2016 in Paris today. The idea was to discuss how corporate incubation end-of-party is coming quickly to Europe and illustrate the five most prevalent impediments that corporations have to
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Startups have become a cheap excuse for corporations in lack of innovation strategy. Itâs not even breaking news; if youâve been in the business of guiding companies through the innovation minefield for a while, youâve already endured several trends coming and going every three or four yearsâ
Scalability is a magic word for innovators. It is what sets Amazon apart from your local retail store, Uber from a taxi company, and Apple from Asus. It is also what ultimately differentiates startups from run-of-the-mill tech ventures. But scalability is a call difficult to answer, partly âbut not onlyâ
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So youâve started a mentoring programme and managed to create some mentor-mentee pairs⌠After a few months, you notice that some pairs are ok, some others or even many others are not seeing each other regularly, or even havenât gone passed the first meeting. It may be a
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As a quick follow-up on my first two articles on corporate innovation (part 1 [https://www.icopilots.com/writing-corporate-incubation-playbook-part-1] and part 2 [https://www.icopilots.com/writing-corporate-incubation-playbook-part-2]), Iâll be presenting a keynote on the relation between startups and corporations in Europe, for companies in the mobility market. The key
Itâs quite a trip to read the Wikipedia page on âbusiness model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_model]â where the business model canvas designed by Pigneur and Osterwalder is barely a footnote. In real life, there is probably just a handful of startups or multinationals that havenât
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Running a regular business is not simple, but itâs well-documented and can be taught in various ways. Itâs comparable to classical mechanics. On the other hand, innovation is the quantum physics of classical business. When its counter-intuitiveness has been laid out for you, you immediately feel like you
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Not many corporations believe that someone will just âwalk inâ, and steal their market away from them overnight. Playing at getting scared hits a weird, but clear, pleasure zone in our brain. Once the horror movie is finished playing, we consider our boring everyday life with a kind of new
In our first white paper preview [https://www.icopilots.com/strategic-mentoring#more-11319], we introduced a few of the key elements about mentoring and its connection to strategy. In order to give you a bit more meat on these bones, here is another part of the paper giving a specific angle
Iâve been working for the past few weeks on a new white paper about Strategic Mentoring for large corporations and multinational groups. The subtitle for now is âHow to Build the Fabled Connected Company & Engage Ever-Changing Marketsâ. Weâll probably keep it that way. : ) For now we are