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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.

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♟ 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’

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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]