Weak Signals
🟢 The hidden concept of bisociation
A new innovation prompt this week using the concept of bisociation. Never heard of the term? Exactly!
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A list of articles for seasoned innovation professionals or founders who want to discuss with us advanced approaches, practices, and tools or simply engage in cutting-edge discussions on technology diffusion and culture change.
Newsletter
🟢 The weird case of dedigitalization innovation
There is a current trend that is the most post-2018 you can imagine. Pure players that disrupted a market by becoming cloud- or online-only suddenly rematerialize and invest in brick-and-mortar. In a seemingly non-sensical turn-around whole crop of digital natives seem to rediscover the wheel. I call this dedigitalization innovation.
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🟢 TRIZ as a cheat code for business model innovation
I had on hold for quite a few weeks an article on how I sometimes use some tools to help generate and challenge business ideas or formulate different business models around new technology. One of the tools I've been using for years is the TRIZ methodology. It'
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Andreessen Horowitz, or how the new economy got old
An excellent article from The Verge on Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and how the most influential venture capitalist firms in Silicon Valley and beyond shaped 'tech.' Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind?Disruptors, disruptedThe VergeElizabeth Lopatto As the model of social networks seems
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🟢 What's on your radar's edge?
As you're now all becoming pros at understanding innovation portfolio strategies, I wanted this week to give you an extra insight on the edge of a portfolio. The radar's edge and why it matters so much.
Strategy
🟢 Five practical steps to ensure your corporate innovation program is not killed after 18 months
This week in the newsletter, I detail the key points of my latest keynote on corporate incubation.
Newsletter
🟢 How to benchmark an innovation ecosystem
To kick off the new year, I wanted to share one of the tools we've used for many years and many different customers. It's about benchmarking an innovation ecosystem.
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🟢 Adapting your innovation process to different team cultures
Today it's all about a more nuanced and practical discussion on how to apply innovation frameworks depending on which type of team culture you're dealing with. And because we never have much time in innovation, let's boil it down to three types of culture.
Toolbox
🟢 The Magic Spot framework
The Magic Spot is the oldest framework I built when I started to consult with startups and then, tried to explain to MBA students there was some logic in the madness.
🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 3
The last entry in our innovation portfolio series deals with the most important of it all: your organizational culture.
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🟢 The explore/exploit fallacy in innovation
I'm encountering more and more this explore/exploit framework with the innovation departments of large corps. Explore/exploit means that they are two modes in the organization. Some teams will be in the first one, while the rest of the organization will be in the other: Thank you,
Retrograde analysis, a tool, and a mindset to deal with high uncertainty
These last weeks have been, hectic and you’ve seen me posting a bit less than usual. Among other things, I spent quite some time giving webinars to a few of our industrial customers in Europe. The need to address innovation programs retooling is quite pressing for everyone. A part