🟢 Is luxury soluble in technology?
In 2015 I discussed to which extent technology could be leveraged by luxury brands and if tech brands could ever invade the luxury space. Let's see where we are in 2022.
Philippe MEDA
There's a (giant) canary in the self-driving coalmine
With around 26 million inhabitants, Shanghai is the third-largest city in the world after Tokyo and Delhi, and it's currently under a hard lockdown. Shanghai is also one of the most active digital consumer markets, spearheaded by numerous delivery and supply-chain innovators.
One of them is JD.com
Selling pickaxes during the NFT goldrush
Surfing on the growing anger about Apple's 30% cut on the App Store, back in June 2021, Zuckerberg announced how he intended to monetize New Horizons (his new virtual reality metaverse project):
To help more creators make a living on our platforms, we’re going to keep paid
One intrapreneur team, one project? Bad idea.
I've helped design, worked with, visited, and oftentimes also rebooted many
intrapreneurship programs since 2007. The most central and undiscussed design
choice for these programs is that one employee (or a small team) will be their
project's internal leader. With some common-sense rules and as light
The war for coffee is still raging
After two years of a global pandemic, quite a few retail businesses show their
weaknesses. As Warren Buffet famously said, you find out who is swimming naked
when the tide goes out. Selling coffee is one of these markets that is heavily
shaken.
After more than ten years of trying
🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 1
Few corporations have been capable of transitioning from a pipeline to an innovation portfolio. We can blame well-known business books for oversimplifying the issues at stake, but also, the non-linearity of a portfolio strategy genuinely baffles most executives. Let's share some insights...
The obvious EV bottleneck
I presented last year how the systemic bottleneck analysis
[https://www.icopilots.com/market-predictions-with-systemic-bottleneck-analysis/]
was one of the key tools I've been using for years when discussing the future of
any market.
As a quick refresher: a systemic bottleneck is a turn point event that is
building up