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IRU World Congress Keynote

IRU World Congress Keynote

My IRU World Congress keynote in Oman is coming up next week on Nov. 6 Here is what I can share for now: These last few years have been quite hectic for many markets such as real estate or retail, where new entrants such as AirBnB or « older » new entrants

If you’re selling mattresses online, are you a startup?

If you’re selling mattresses online, are you a startup?

We idealize startups as young (start-), fast-growing companies (-up) that innovate with new technology. In Europe, most of the startups you meet don’t grow fast. And to be clear, fast would ‘just’ mean reaching the first million euros in sales within a year or two. Such speed usually requires

Your process is not my customer experience

Two weeks ago I had to rent a car from Hertz. It was one of the blandest experience I’ve had with a customer desk in a very long time. This is not a rant on Hertz or this particular team. I could guess that my customer experience by all

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Innovation doesn’t fit in a pipeline

Most of the innovation programs that I encounter are still organized as R&D programs. We often call that the innovation pipeline fallacy. It's primarily due to the fact that most organizations don't get that innovation is not R&D and that consecutively innovation

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Cultural Transformation – Communities Over Tools

During the past few years, whether discussing mentoring programmes or cultural transformation with large corporations, I am faced with a disproportionate belief in “tools”. I think I need to clarify that it is not because as consultants we use tools that we sell tools. A keynote from Frédérique PAIN [https:

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Are Innovation Conferences Dead?

Not sure that traditional innovation conferences can get there. This means delivering focused keynotes in the context of a) a specific market problem and b) a specific company culture. This is interesting for us and small consultancies in general I guess… As a matter of fact, I also realized that

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M&A: Overcoming the Culture Shift Challenge

When I wrote the “Mentoring by FabMob” white paper [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/mentoring-by-fabmob-download-the-white-paper], I was already hinting at an example of use of mentoring to facilitate the cultural integration in the case of acquisition of a new entity. I do not wish to go into the well documented difficulties