Innovation Copilots
We are a consultancy agency focused on { Leapfrog } innovation. Here we share our tools and thought processes. Want a weekly deep dive? Subscribe below.

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🔴 What is a canary in the coal mine?

🔴 What is a canary in the coal mine?

🔴 How to kill a Facebook (or any network effect-based business for that matter)

🔴 How to kill a Facebook (or any network effect-based business for that matter)

⏮ 🔴 [ Looking back at ] 15 years of mentoring

⏮ 🔴 [ Looking back at ] 15 years of mentoring

⏮ 🔴 [ Looking back at ] how platforms and big tech scale

⏮ 🔴 [ Looking back at ] how platforms and big tech scale

🟧 🔴 [ Dutch week ] Technology and the 'doe normaal' mindset

🟧 🔴 [ Dutch week ] Technology and the 'doe normaal' mindset

🔴 Innovation, the feminine way

🔴 Innovation, the feminine way

🔴 Timing technology push and market pull for incubation programs

🔴 Timing technology push and market pull for incubation programs

🔴 Does innovation deliver progress? (It's complicated)

🔴 Does innovation deliver progress? (It's complicated)

🔴 The Romanesco effect: Reimagining, Diversification, and Reduction.

🔴 The Romanesco effect: Reimagining, Diversification, and Reduction.

🔴 Is Amazon Healthcare inevitable in Europe? (Yes)

🔴 Is Amazon Healthcare inevitable in Europe? (Yes)

🔴 Growth engine vs. Network effect vs. Flywheel

🔴 Growth engine vs. Network effect vs. Flywheel

🔴 The sausage factory of trending blog posts

🔴 The sausage factory of trending blog posts

🔴 Cracking the code for blending technology and luxury together

🔴 Cracking the code for blending technology and luxury together

🔴 From Deeptech to Diptech

🔴 From Deeptech to Diptech

🔴 9 Strategies for service innovation

🔴 9 Strategies for service innovation

🔴 Is Citroën's AMI leapfrogging Tesla's master plan?

🔴 Is Citroën's AMI leapfrogging Tesla's master plan?

🔴 Apple discretely unveils Apple cars; not the Apple Car

🔴 Apple discretely unveils Apple cars; not the Apple Car

🔴 Does business research matter?

🔴 Does business research matter?

🔴 What the video-game market tells us about innovation trends

🔴 What the video-game market tells us about innovation trends

🔴 The pace layers of innovation

🔴 The pace layers of innovation

🔴 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 3

🔴 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 3

🔴 Can Google get AR off the ground?

🔴 Can Google get AR off the ground?

🔴 The fundamentals of opposable marketing

🔴 The fundamentals of opposable marketing

🔴 Omega and Swatch, a model for exploring market innovation

🔴 Omega and Swatch, a model for exploring market innovation

🔴 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 2

🔴 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 2

🔴 Is luxury soluble in technology?

🔴 Is luxury soluble in technology?

🔴 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 1

🔴 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 1

🔴 Going down the NFT rabbit hole

🔴 Going down the NFT rabbit hole

🔴 Hedging the economic cold war China

🔴 Hedging the economic cold war China

🔴 The explore/exploit fallacy in innovation

🔴 The explore/exploit fallacy in innovation

🔴 The war for coffee

🔴 The war for coffee

🔴 3 Things You Might Not Know About Asking Questions

🔴 3 Things You Might Not Know About Asking Questions

🔴 5 Things you know about innovation that are wrong

🔴 5 Things you know about innovation that are wrong

🔴 Pricing innovation

🔴 Pricing innovation

🦄 Startup Web Training

🦄 Startup Web Training

🔴 Engaging men in women’s issues – Beyond the buzz 4/4

🔴 Engaging men in women’s issues – Beyond the buzz 4/4

🔴 More Diversity – Beyond the Buzz 3/4

🔴 More Diversity – Beyond the Buzz 3/4

🔴 More Women - Beyond the buzz 2/4

🔴 More Women - Beyond the buzz 2/4

🔴 Fail Fast - Beyond the buzz 1/4

🔴 Fail Fast - Beyond the buzz 1/4

🔴 Emotions, survival, crisis & radical change

🔴 Emotions, survival, crisis & radical change

🔴 Mentoring design

🔴 Mentoring design

🔴 How to run a startup, a quick and dirty guide

🔴 How to run a startup, a quick and dirty guide

🔴 My perspectives on the future of the digital economy in 42 bullet-points

🔴 My perspectives on the future of the digital economy in 42 bullet-points

🔴 Interview – Innovative Management at Worldline

🔴 Interview – Innovative Management at Worldline

🔴 Interview – A Finance Transformation Expert at DSM

🔴 Interview – A Finance Transformation Expert at DSM

🧠 Innovation is not about being smart and fast

🧠 Innovation is not about being smart and fast

🔲 Our innovation framework

🔲 Our innovation framework

🔴 Interview – A change partner transforming HR at ING

🔴 Interview – A change partner transforming HR at ING

🔴 Interview – A Community Builder Playing the Long Game at BNP Paribas

🔴 Interview – A Community Builder Playing the Long Game at BNP Paribas

🔴 Interview – A Pragmatic Pioneer with a Portfolio Approach at Thales AVS

🔴 Interview – A Pragmatic Pioneer with a Portfolio Approach at Thales AVS

🔲 Our culture framework

🔲 Our culture framework

🔴 Interview – A Transformation Executive Leveraging Complexity Intelligence At Atos (Part 2)

🔴 Interview – A Transformation Executive Leveraging Complexity Intelligence At Atos (Part 2)

🔴 Interview – A Transformation Executive Leveraging Complexity Intelligence at Atos (Part 1)

🔴 Interview – A Transformation Executive Leveraging Complexity Intelligence at Atos (Part 1)

🔴 Interview – A digital intrapreneur breaking silos at Airbus

🔴 Interview – A digital intrapreneur breaking silos at Airbus

🔴 Digital is over for Europe, now what?

🔴 Digital is over for Europe, now what?

🔴 Mentoring by FabMob white paper

🔴 Mentoring by FabMob white paper

🔴 Fixing your innovation pipeline with a reverse pipeline

🔴 Fixing your innovation pipeline with a reverse pipeline

🔴 Of N-Curves And S-Curves

🔴 Of N-Curves And S-Curves

🔴 Emotions powered innovation

🔴 Emotions powered innovation

🔴 A full stack approach to corporate culture change

🔴 A full stack approach to corporate culture change

🔴 4 Keys to boost your reverse mentoring programme

🔴 4 Keys to boost your reverse mentoring programme

🔴 Why culture change fails

🔴 Why culture change fails

🔴 How to explain innovation to your boss

🔴 How to explain innovation to your boss

🔴 The keys to avoid mentoring matches hell

🔴 The keys to avoid mentoring matches hell

🔴 Startups are Schrödinger’s cats

🔴 Startups are Schrödinger’s cats

🔴 Risk, the most valuable currency between startups and the industry

🔴 Risk, the most valuable currency between startups and the industry

🔴 Emotions at work

🔴 Emotions at work

Latest _

Sep
30

🎮 Google kills Stadia; speaks about how incumbent it is, and maybe not a platform anymore

Yesterday, Google killed Stadia, their game streaming project. A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategyWe’ve made
3 min read
Sep
29

🔴 What is a canary in the coal mine?

One innovation tool we often use is the "canary in the coal mine." I've been illustrating and writing about quite a few in different contexts these last few years but never really explained the tool and how to use it. So, here goes...
4 min read
Sep
28

🧐 What is the age of the captain?

In 2018, a 5th grader mathematics problem given in a school in China took some part of the internet by
3 min read
Sep
27

🤑 Wide vs Deep, the margin strategy of innovators

For years, Apple has been vastly underrated in many sectors, such as mobile or games, and now as an ad
3 min read
Sep
26

🤖 Siemens is digesting, rebranding, and moving in, to a no-nonsense Industrial Metaverse

Last July, Siemens unveiled their new business accelerator dedicated to the metaverse. And before you start running away, thinking they
2 min read
Sep
23

🧬 Digital? It's not only pizza-delivery!

Most of the tech and digital news this year have been rather depressing if you ask me. Between Andreessen Horowitz
1 min read
Sep
22

😱 Tardigrade vs. Zombie technologies

To end the week, I'd like to share an interesting find about a legacy technology that still survives against all
3 min read
Sep
21

🔴 How to kill a Facebook (or any network effect-based business for that matter)

We talked many times over about network effects and their indisputable power. The question today is: Is there a self-defense manual against them? Or "How to kill a Facebook"?
8 min read
Sep
20

🪆 The Russian brain drain

Fascinating tweet from Johannes Wachs a few days ago: Preprint day: I measure developer brain drain from Russia since the
2 min read
Sep
19

🚀 Do we need more Silicon Valleys? (No)

I have been historically doubtful of reproducing innovation models imported from other cultures and ecosystems – I've been very polite right
3 min read