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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.

Rear-view innovation

And in the end, the game-changers are not the ones that understand Ford’s quote “When If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”… The game changers are the ones who make it understandable for their whole organization.

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♟ The startup game and its metagame

While startups are not failing more, they’re just more vocal about it. This is a good thing. Hopefully, it will hep dismiss the illusion that a) anyone can launch a successful startup and b) the next stage of economic growth for Western countries will come from under-staffed, ill-prepared tech

Startups fail 3 times…

Initially, 80% of startups fail at designing a workable solution to early adopters’ problem, from whom they can learn. Out of the remaining 20%, 80% fail at building on-going traction from a core market. Eventually, 80% of the few that survive fail at scaling this traction up, because they weren’

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How well do you get business?

Having a strong sense of order and hierarchy, most of my MBA students –both in France and China– love to have some ranking on “How well do you get business?” A Mohs scale [https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=

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My innovation radar for 2017

As someone with the finger on the pulse of many technology fields in many markets, I tend to have a lateral view on trendy topics. I’m also a contrarian, so take that into account. But if I’d have to share what I have on my innovation radar for

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An innovator’s perspective on the Trumpocalypse

It’s way too soon or too late to start to be wise about the Trumpocalypse. Even if the 2005 European referendum in France and Brexit were no weak signals, they were very loud and clear bullhorns. Thank you. Well, anyway. My line of work is not in politics or