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Dark kitchens: from software to physical cloud

Dark kitchens are the hot trend in business innovation right now. Since Trevis Kalanick, ex-Uber CEO recently invested $150 million of personal cash in such a startup, with a further Saudi Arabia investment, of $400 million everyone is taking notice. But if you’re just taking notice, you’re late

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Innovation culture needs feminine values

Come on, you already know this! Countless articles, researches and studies have shown that to create an innovation culture you need these key feminine values: * Empathy [https://www.icopilots.com/culture-framework] so not only your innovation team can actually understand your customer and connect with your (potential) market; * Intuition so

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My 2017 innovation radar vs. Benedict Evans’ 2020 tech assessment

In 2017, I was predicting a few things [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/my-innovation-radar-for-2017/] that I believe are now pretty obvious for everyone in 2020. Let’s contrast what I was forecasting, from some of the perspectives on technology that Benedict EVANS just published a few days ago in Tech in

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Scroll: Can digital media get away from ads?

I already discussed already a few times how bad it is that ads are still the default monetization mode [https://www.icopilots.com/why-ad-monetization-is-wrong-really] digital media. In term of business model, they still use the same playbook as soap operas in the sixties. Not only this stifles innovation in this

Should startup public funding be randomly distributed?

Should startup public funding be randomly distributed?

Since 2011, Nigeria has decided to fuel entrepreneurship by distributing public funding. Nothing surprising, but their strategy: lowering the barrier of entry as much as possible by distributing funding to anyone with a small business and a « readable » business plan. With all due caution to the transferability of such a

Reboot your innovation process

2020, A chance to reboot your innovation process?

If you’ve read any business book in your life, it’s painfully obvious that the industry has been trying to offset the problem of relying on predictive business plans to innovate, (a) forever and (b) without much success. Everything that has been written about business has been connected to

Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Christensen] passed away two days ago. I will have never met him. And as influential as he was for many of us on innovation strategy, I thought it would be interesting to remember that he was not only focused on that.