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Why I mostly don’t go to innovation conferences anymore

Why I mostly don’t go to innovation conferences anymore

I don’t care so much for technology roadshows, prospective think tanks, and other events where the future is explained to the rest of us while we frantically retweet catchy slogans of software eating the world. And for sure, I feel bad for European startups and tech giants feeling they

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My next keynote on Invisible Technology

When technology is so impactful and ubiquitous for our lives, it ends up disappearing in the background of everything we do. It becomes an invisible part of the operating system of our lives. Electricity has become in most of the world such an invisible technology. The very mundanity of plugging

cogs - innovation copilots

How to reverse your innovation pipeline

Traditional innovation pipelines take hundreds of ideas at year one, refine twenty or thirty of them, prototype a dozen tops, kill them along the way, and try to exit with a single market-viable product after three years. This process bets on the fact that you’ll have a gold nugget

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Mentoring for innovation culture

To foster innovation in large corporations, several key and « difficult to get » ingredients need to be gathered: creativity, market awareness and risk mindset whilst being reassuring to existing customers with a solid, efficient structure. Mentoring for innovation not only requires being great at what you are doing but also having

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.