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Looking Back at 2021 – Part 1

Looking Back at 2021 – Part 1

As the year came to a recent close, here are my 2021 highlights in the telegraphic form: from work adaptations to personal achievements as well as challenges and gratefulness. Catch up with you soon! Work Transformed Further Building on our 2020 experiences we launched our Icopilots Webschool [https://icopilots.thinkific.

How Springboard both invented and missed the smartphone market

How Springboard both invented and missed the smartphone market

As a quick end-of-the-year note, I was delighted by the 30 min documentary produced by The Verge on the smartphone early-stage market in the early nineties. It is a fantastic template to understand quite a few things: * How inventors are rarely innovators. * Why early actors mostly can’t see the

Scaling culture change

Scaling culture change

Scaling culture change in the industry is a complex process. Everyone understands that this requires time until you need to come up with quick wins nonetheless. A few years ago I was already sharing about a few key ingredients to building a mentoring culture [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/what-it-takes-to-build-a-mentoring-culture-that-delivers] and

Summer reads for innovators (2021 edition) 📚

Summer reads for innovators (2021 edition) 📚

While I’m on a semi-summer break, I wanted to answer a request I often have (not only from my MBA students but also from my corporate customers): “Philippe, what kind of books would you recommend to boost our innovation mindset?”. Glad you asked! Here are five of the most

How Samsung Lost China

How Samsung Lost China

While being the uncontested leader in 2014, by 2020, Samsung had lost China entirely. From an 18% market share of the Chinese mobile phone market in 2014 to a measly 2% in 2018, by 2020, Samsung had virtually disappeared from the Chinese mainland market. What went wrong, and why should

What is Rupture Innovation?

What is Rupture Innovation?

Yesterday, I gave a seminar on rupture innovation for Naval Group; the French defense contractor specialized in naval-based defense platforms. We did not discuss anything specific about their business or any NDA-related issue, so they kindly agreed that I’d share the slides; here they are (in French):