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My Innovation Radar 2018 – Part 3, Chic and Mortar Retail

We have all witnessed how digital has transformed the retail market all across the planet. At first e-commerce, then Amazon and Alibaba platforms, then even more new entrants, more recently everyone is trying to jump in social media such as Instagram (courting young trendy « influencers »), etc. The consensus was that

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Innovation is like Oxycontin

Lee VINSEL [http://leevinsel.com/blog] is an associate professor at Virgina Tech. He gently explains that innovation is like oxycontin in the academic field. And that when he’s pitching innovation to university administrators he does what consultants do when they try to part a customer from its money:

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🌊 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 well or better than I do, but they fail to act on them appropriately. In my experience, the key

The design thinking craze

The design thinking craze

Natasha JEN formulates a very calm and articulate deconstruction of the design thinking craze. Just like open innovation, lean methodologies, effectuation, or intrapreneurship… design thinking is a methodology that is better at selling the idea that there is a one-size-fits-all solution to every corporate strategic hurdle than actually delivering anything

What it takes to build a mentoring culture that delivers

What it takes to build a mentoring culture that delivers

Worldline [https://worldline.com] has been one of the key customers I’ve been implementing a company-wide strategic mentoring program (you will spot me here and there presenting, gesticulating and laughing in the short video). During the last four years, I’ve been starting up, designing, implementing, training, tweaking, measuring

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My Innovation radar 2018 — Part 2, Platforms’ Dark Patterns

We discussed in the previous article the idea of the weak singularity, where all connected devices tend to be harvested by a few massive platforms as a global sensor network targeting us for ads (or broader influence strategies). The follow-up of this trend is what we call Platforms’ Dark Patterns,