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Philippe MEDA

Since 2007, Philippe has collaborated with hundreds of startups and advised numerous multinational corporations on disruptive innovation strategies. He also teaches MBA courses in Europe and Shanghai.

the riddler - innovation copilots

25 Hints that you might be a startup

In 2015, I was (poorly) rapping on how early stage ventures were systematically called “startups” because pretty much everyone has vested interests in labeling them as such. [https://www.icopilots.com/11760] We’re now in 2017 and there is always a deeply rooted misconception about what is a startup.

platform innovation

Keeping platform innovation in perspective

You have all seen this striking illustration of the platform shifts we lived this last decade: Uber owns zero taxi, AirBnB zero hotel, etc. Don’t we just forget that this is business as usual in the innovation playfield? One of the key reason we don’t see it as

Why I mostly don’t go to innovation conferences anymore

Why I mostly don’t go to innovation conferences anymore

I don’t care so much for technology roadshows, prospective think tanks, and other events where the future is explained to the rest of us while we frantically retweet catchy slogans of software eating the world. And for sure, I feel bad for European startups and tech giants feeling they

invisible technology - keynote

My next keynote on Invisible Technology

When technology is so impactful and ubiquitous for our lives, it ends up disappearing in the background of everything we do. It becomes an invisible part of the operating system of our lives. Electricity has become in most of the world such an invisible technology. The very mundanity of plugging

cogs - innovation copilots

How to reverse your innovation pipeline

Traditional innovation pipelines take hundreds of ideas at year one, refine twenty or thirty of them, prototype a dozen tops, kill them along the way, and try to exit with a single market-viable product after three years. This process bets on the fact that you’ll have a gold nugget

A consultant is someone that…

A consultant is someone that spent 10,000 hours on a subject that is really critical for your business once every 3 years.

The gospel of disruption

One of the most balanced article I read on innovation and the disruption myth was from 2014. It’s “The Disruption Machine – What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.” from Jill LEPORE. [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine] > Disruptive innovation is a theory about why businesses