A consultant is someone that… A consultant is someone that spent 10,000 hours on a subject that is really critical for your business once every 3 years.
The gospel of disruption One of the most balanced article I read on innovation and the disruption myth was from 2014. It’s “The Disruption Machine – What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.” from Jill LEPORE. [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine] > Disruptive innovation is a theory about why businesses
Rear-view innovation And in the end, the game-changers are not the ones that understand Ford’s quote “When If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”… The game changers are the ones who make it understandable for their whole organization.
♟ The startup game and its metagame While startups are not failing more, they’re just more vocal about it. This is a good thing. Hopefully, it will hep dismiss the illusion that a) anyone can launch a successful startup and b) the next stage of economic growth for Western countries will come from under-staffed, ill-prepared tech
Startups fail 3 times… Initially, 80% of startups fail at designing a workable solution to early adopters’ problem, from whom they can learn. Out of the remaining 20%, 80% fail at building on-going traction from a core market. Eventually, 80% of the few that survive fail at scaling this traction up, because they weren’
HR and Innovation from Expectra’s interview At the end of last year, Expectra interviewed me to include my expert opinion about HR and innovation in their monthly debate [http://www.leblogexpectra.fr/13793_13793.html]. They asked the question “Innovation in the business: Do HR have to be involved?” [http://www.leblogexpectra.fr/13793_13793.html]
Should Mentors of Entrepeneurs be Trained or their Experience is Enough? Should Mentors of Entrepreneurs be Trained or their Experience is Enough? [https://www.slideshare.net/merkapt/should-mentors-of-entrepreneurs-be-trained-or-their-experience-is-enough] from INNOVATION COPILOTS [https://www.slideshare.net/merkapt]