🔵 Cruising in Chaos - Part 4, The logic of becoming the casino
In this series of articles for the summer, I explore the key differences between innovation during linear and relatively stable times and those like... now.
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🟢 Venture clienting is the innovation flavor of the month. Does it work?
Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Venture clienting is only a tool among many others, and while it can be a fantastic way to boost an innovation program, it also has limits.
Venture clienting is having its moment (again)
Most corporations now seem to understand that startups being pushed into large
We dream of HER, we fear HAL… but we’ll get SAP
Like Sam Altman, we dream of HER. You know, Scarlett Johansson’s voice, the gentle omnipresence of an AI that anticipates our needs, laughs at our jokes, and understands our deepest aspirations. A technology that feels like companionship. And like Stanley Kubrick, we fear HAL. The archetype of the cold,
AI innovation isn’t one-size-fits-all
Google rolled out its flagship healthcare AI, Med‑Gemini, with fanfare, until a board‑certified neurologist publicly called out a major screw-up: the AI “invented” a brain structure called the “basilar ganglia” (seemingly confusing the basal ganglia with the basilar artery).
Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part
Strategyzer and the Dunning-Kruger effect
There's something no one really says out loud in the innovation field: Strategyzer's tools are at best a mixed blessing; oftentimes just a pain in the ass.
The short version is that spending a few hours filling in a Business Model Canvas (BMC) will give you
Consulting as Gen X: Is being the “Lost Generation” a secret weapon?
Don't ask why (or blame my age), but I was pondering yesterday whether there was any value in being a Gen Xer in the consulting business.
Remember who we are?
Probably not. That's our feature as a generation. Always forgotten.
We are the generation that got
Navigating high uncertainty markets
An interview with KEDGE Business School back from 2021 about the COVID crisis that still sounds about right to me if you change COVID for Trump, Taiwan, Gaza, Ukraine, or AI...