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A list of articles for innovation practitioners with a few years of experience who wants to get beyond the usual buzzwords and weak sauce concepts with practical tools and concepts.

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🟢 Dealing with uncertain times: Real Options
Members February 8, 2024 by philippe

🟢 Dealing with uncertain times: Real Options

I recently discussed with a friend who has been involved in different corporate innovation centers for many years about the many ways proper optionality can be built. And he was telling me how he was going back to Real Options strategy (I capitalize 'Real Options' because it'...

🟢 Shifting from Zone 1 to Zone 2 Innovation in non-linear times
Members February 1, 2024 by philippe in Newsletter

🟢 Shifting from Zone 1 to Zone 2 Innovation in non-linear times

As much as we love talking about innovation, we all run on predictions at the end of the day. Even when bragging about disruption or rupture innovation, we expect some continuity. Things might accelerate spectacularly, but some linearity in how the market behaves is still expected. Consider ChatGPT. The technology...

🟢 How to disrupt long-cycle markets, the Anduril case
Members December 7, 2023 by philippe in Newsletter

🟢 How to disrupt long-cycle markets, the Anduril case

For those of you, my readers, who are innovation actors in long-cycle markets, corseted by heavy regulations, strained by massive capital investment and precarious R&D projects, the way the defense market might be reinvented as we speak is a fantastic template to organize your own disruption. And the...

Invariant predictions
September 19, 2023 by philippe

Invariant predictions

This is an updated version and translation of "De l'utilité des predictions invariantes" written back in August 2008.

🟢 Are you a Plumber or an Alchemist?
Members September 14, 2023 by philippe in Newsletter

🟢 Are you a Plumber or an Alchemist?

For many years, I have pondered how to nudge organizations most effectively through troubled waters or, quite often, sheer storms, and in doing so, I always asked myself the core qualities involved to get there. How to be an efficient 'copilot'. And if you're reading this...