Innovation’s edge effects
A keynote for part of the French ENGIE managing team on innovation’s edge
effects, and why these effects have now become the underlying drivers of market
change.
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Car manufacturers are the new Nokia
For anyone seriously involved in innovation, it’s stunning to realize that the
industry learned nothing from early 2000s Nokia. People still think of the car
industry as a hardware business. It’s all about the car, the engine, the brakes,
the dashboard, the performance, the security, and the comfort.
How to accept the future, even when it’s explained to you?
In 1974, Arthur C. Clarke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke]
trying to explain the future to a reporter and his son… “I wonder though, what
sort of a life that would be, like in term of social terms, when our whole life
is built around computers?”
All unsuccessful innovation are alike…
https://twitter.com/Merkapt/status/683579293469925376
🟢 Startups are Schrödinger’s cats
You’re not a startup…
You’re not a startup, you’re a headline filler for tech journalists chasing tomorrow’s jargon.
You’re not a startup, you’re a branding token for cities desperate to look alive.
You’re not a startup, you’re a stage prop in the theatre of corporate innovation-washing.
You’
A roadmap to disruption
I discussed Uberization at length in a recent article. But this is just a model of disruption, among many others. To be complete, I should at least also speak about Teslaization, which I believe to be more dangerous for many companies and their relation to by-the-book disruption. These three states