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AI research in healthcare? It's a mess

AI research in healthcare? It's a mess

Lately, a few sobering research papers have been published about AI (artificial intelligence) research in healthcare. Research on research might seem a vain redundancy. Maybe, but since 2015 there's been a massive wake-up call in the scientific community as we found that many research results couldn't

The innovation (portfolio) rule of 120

The innovation (portfolio) rule of 120

To properly manage a corporate innovation portfolio, I often refer to the "120 Rule", to explain that innovation is a quantitative game. A few days ago, I picked up the following data on the gross multiple U.S. venture capital firms would get on their initial startup investments.

Nicolas Cage and your swimming pool

Nicolas Cage and your swimming pool

In our age of data supposedly reigning supreme, our data culture is still very coarse. The two most simple issues we're still struggling with in my experience? How much of a sample size do you need to get to statistical relevance and correlation is not causation. Both of

The day I realized you couldn't be an innovation theorist 📺

The day I realized you couldn't be an innovation theorist 📺

In 2016, Clayton Christensen (father of the Innovator's Dilemma and professor extraordinaire at Harvard Business School) discovered that products didn't have intrinsic value and formatted the "job to be done" principle. In his own words: For me, this is a neat idea. When we

How to make biking a success in Europe

How to make biking a success in Europe

A few weeks ago, I gave a webinar for one of France's largest insurance companies on how the Dutch developed the bike, not as a mobility or technology layer but as a full-on urban design paradigm. The title broadly translates as "How to make biking a success

What is a platform? Map edition

What is a platform? Map edition

Last June, I was pointing out how being able to seamlessly use the iPhone as a Mac webcam was speaking volumes about how Apple is not a product company, but a fully integrated hardware and software platform. I didn't mean to make a recurring theme of this "