🟢 Should you be confident that customers know what they want?
I'm taking a few days off this week. Still, I wanted to share a simple reminder of how we often see innovation as a customer-driven process. And in so many cases, it's anything but.
🟢 Gartner Hype Cycle: signal or noise?
Gartner Hype Cycle has become a standard tool for most corporations involved in technology (but at this point, who's not?). In my experience, it's still poorly understood and often leads to wishful and sometimes even magical thinking. Let's try to fix that.
🟢 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.
🟢 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.
🟢 Fifty shades of digital
Digital, digital, digital! For most, it seems to be black magic, or worse, a concept so simple that everyone gets it now! Well, it's neither (even if I'm not entirely sure about black magic). Let me share a framework on 'what is digital' that I've been refining for a few years...
🟢 Customer cases. Episode 1, Mentoring at Thales Avionics
As we share our more recent customer cases, I am taking the opportunity to reflect on the critical strategic learnings about implementing mentoring at scale. Our approach with Thales Avionics was slightly different than the one we started with Worldline back in 2014, so I thought it was worth giving
🟢 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 😱).