If you are wondering whether your organisation is mentoring-ready or whether it is right for you. Keep watching.
Disneyland is not clean by mistake
As I’m heading to give another 3 days MBA class on business models in Paris tomorrow, I’m preparing to exchange on many strategic topics. While there are quite a few...
Mentoring Design
Still view mentoring as a nice-to-have HR career dev tool? Take another look and see how mentoring design can serve your strategy.
2020 China Market Report
Totem Media has had the finger on the pulse on the Chinese market for quite a few years now. I never worked with them, but their insights on the evolution...
How to harness intuitive leadership
Intuitive Leadership has become trendy but also a necessity. But how can we develop it if we don’t understand it?
Can hardware manufacturers survive the platform economy?
Samsung announced a tremendous partnership strategy yesterday. It asks the question if hardware manufacturers can survive the platform era?
SoftBank and the problem of Tech investment in Europe
SoftBank recent fails and the imminent arrival of US tech investors in Europe is getting many tech and business journalists excited. I think we shouldn’t be so enthusiastic and rapidly refocus how we see tech investment in Europe.
What is tech anyway?
Why have these four letters of « tech » been so central to innovation and market growth these last decades and how do we still misinterpret them?
Framing the problem you are solving
An update on one of the tools we use to copilot innovation project with startups or industrials, and a peak at the logic behind these tools.
The Female Code book
I will be contributing a chapter about decoding emotions at work to the book « The Female Code » which will be out this summer. Stay tuned.
Dark kitchens: from software to physical cloud
Innovation trends such as « dark kitchens » in food delivery business, might seems far away from your market. You might actually not realize how they paint a target on your industry’s back.
Innovation culture needs feminine values
Masculine values are central to many things in business, but not for innovation where feminine values are critical. If only there was a simple way to get more of them… Oh, wait.
My 2017 innovation radar vs. Benedict Evans’ 2020 tech assessment
Forecasts about technology might actually see where tech is going, but more importantly they put into light the underlying key cycles in society and the industry.
Scroll: Can digital media get away from ads?
Ads are both a boon and a problem for digital media groups. Today Vox Media launches an alternative business model worth considering.
Should startups public funding be randomly distributed?
I discuss quite a lot how corporations could or should rewrite their innovation playbook. But what about public offices in charge of funding entrepreneurship?
2020, A chance to reboot your innovation process?
Most large companies now have a mature innovation process, associated with on-going frustrations and often, disillusionment. In 2020, we may have an opportunity to shake things up…
Clayton Christensen
https://youtu.be/tvos4nORf_Y Clayton Christensen passed away two days ago. I will have never met him. And as influential as he was for many of us on innovation strategy, I thought it...
Shaping digital
Although deepfakes might be discussed a lot these days, we might not realize that a deeper level the digital economy is shaped so that we don’t distinguish information from promotion anymore.