🟢 The hidden concept of bisociation
A new innovation prompt this week using the concept of bisociation. Never heard of the term? Exactly!
🟢 Can innovators control luck?
In 1978, Dr. James Austin published an odd book called Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty. The book was all about making scientific sense of... luck. This is a specially interesting endeavor for startups or corporations as luck is probably the essential asset for anyone in the
Are you pink enough? 📺
When discussing innovation, pretty soon, we end up talking about marketing and branding. If you do something new that challenges the market, there's an embedded drive to be remarkable yourself by shaking the usual market codes. In 2003, Seth Godin wrote The Purple Cow and summarised many key
🟢 Small is Powerful
Ten years ago, I wrote an article that would end up being key to how Stéphanie and I would define our business. The article's title was Small is Beautiful, a Vision of Excellence with Fewer than 10 Employees. I was arguing at the time that micro-enterprises might be
Fujifilm, a rare industrial pivot success story
Today, we're talking about the rise and fall of film technology and how one company, Fujifilm, managed to pivot and adapt to new businesses.
Fujifilm was established in 1934 as a subsidiary of Daicel with the aim of producing photographic films. For decades, Fujifilm dominated the camera film
Moving from product to minimum viable business
In October 2012, I was already writing about the Lean Startup and the whole MVP fallacy. As I still get many questions about it, it's probably worth translating the article from French (with some cleaning up) and sharing it again.
🟢 What's your Kobayashi Maru dilemma?
This week we're done with the GAFAMs and ChatGPT! Let's go back to a key innovation mindset component and some tools. I give you the Kobayashi Maru dilemma... (and yes, I briefly considered trolling Star Trek fans with a Star Wars picture 😱).