Samsung announced a tremendous partnership strategy yesterday. It asks the question if hardware manufacturers can survive the platform era?
The case for self-cannibalization
Self-cannibalization is often understood as something normal in business when you have to jump to the new version of an old best-seller. In innovation? It’s not that simple…
How to run a startup, a quick and dirty guide
I've read too many startup post-mortems lately. "If only we would have done X instead of Y and Z we would have wasted less time and money and maybe survived"....
Why is your innovation program missing out the next market wave, again and again.
I’m often surprised to see leading companies with solid innovation programs, missing obvious market turnarounds. They record the same weak signals and trends that I do, they understand them as...
Digital is Over for Europe, Now What?
This is a discussion replaying my last keynote about digital markets in Europe, why ‘digital is over’, and why Europe still has many options to leapfrog the US and (maybe) fend of China as much as possible.
The Mean Startup, How GE Failed at Doing Innovation By The Book
The « Mean Startup » explores how GE fell from grace and got close to bankruptcy while applying at a large scale lean startup methodology and Harvard Business Review best practices.
The 10,000 People Startup
I’ll be in Shanghai next week and Jia Tong University in partnership with Kedge Business School asked me to give a keynote on one of the topics we work on...
Digital is over
Many companies are still investing a lot of time and money to play catch up and embark in the digital revolution. The only problem is that in 2018 digital is over. Digital is like electricity. It’s always on, pervasive, low cost and no one brags about being an electric business anymore.
Of N-Curves And S-Curves
Most innovators are equipped with hammers and tend to see all new markets as nails. Except they don’t have hammers, they have S-Curve models…
The fundamentals of opposable marketing
Checking for opposable marketing is a very robust acid test for any business. Just look for a minute at a company webpage and you’ll get if they have something real to sell, or if they’re just pushing products out of the factories and hoping for the best.
The startup game and its metagame
Innovation is a game played at the startup, industry, and ecosystemic level. And the common resource of these games is vastly misunderstood. It’s risk.
How to explain innovation to your boss
I wouldn’t like to be you having to explain to my boss what is innovation, and why he’s not doing it right. But it happens that as consultants this is pretty much what we do every day. Here’s how…
Risk, the most valuable currency between startups and the industry
Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting a keynote titled "Trading Risk, the Most Valuable Currency Between Startups and the Industry" for the CEA at the LETI Days event. The main points of...