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"....
My perspectives on the future of digital economy in 42 bullet-points
I have been doing a lot of work on the future of digital economy for various multinationals these last months. Part of the work is to map the key driving...
Innovation is not about being smart and fast
We use innovation to say many things, which usually translates in being smart and fast about it. This is a wide-spread fallacy. Let’s understand why…
Business Model Canvas for Innovators
I’ve been sharing for many years our own business model canvas that we’ve been using with a wide range of customers (from startups to multinationals) in many industries. If you ever been frustrated with the generic business model canvas and were not really able to activate it and gets real life results with it, well, there is a reason. And you might want to check this.
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...
The Culture Framework
Philippe had been hinting at one of the combined tools we’d like to share: the culture and business frameworks. The culture framework that we’ve been using for years informally when...
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.
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…
12 Things we learned in 10 years of consulting
After launching our consulting business in 2007, we finally moved to Amsterdam and made a soft reboot of our activity to better adjust to our lifestyle. After 10 years of consulting, these are 12 things we learned and we still focus on.
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...