🟢 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.
Philippe MEDA
Netflix and the problem of running without flywheel
For digital platforms aiming to become a global business, the most obvious strategy has been for decades to just run ahead of everyone, reach critical mass as fast as possible, and lock in the market within your platform. If it works, you're a de facto monopoly and should
🟢 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.
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
Public transportation is boring? Think again.
When you work with startups, you sometimes get the impression that everyone is chasing dumb pizza-delivery businesses that will make them rich overnight or investing in improbable moonshot technologies where quantum computing will cure cancer. The boring but important daily stuff? No one really cares about it.
If you want
What is the real survival rate of startups?
I often feel I'm the only one surprised that no one really cares about monitoring the real survival rate of startups.
Most public incubators in Europe will tell you they have around 20% or less failure after five years. But in 2012 a study financed by the European
🟢 Can Google get AR off the ground?
Google announced a new AR glasses prototype. What to make of it?
Whether you deal with VR (virtual reality) or AR (augmented reality) you need to solve three big problems at the same time:
* Find a real market problem to solve at scale.
* Build a hardware layer that is powerful