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🟢 Why most innovation books suck
Let's face it, most innovation books suck. They look nicer and nicer with fancy, colorful designs, yet they won't help you move your business one inch forward.
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Every Friday, a deep-dive analysis of a technology, market turn-around, or an innovation framework. No ads, no fee, no promo, no premium tier, we just aim to connect and grow our like-minded innovator community 😎
Insights2025
🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 9. The big startup reboot?
The final article on the "2025 Insights" series loops back on startups, why the game has already changed and what it means for corporates.
AI
🟢 Is the war in Gaza already changing what we can accept from AI?
As I was recently exploring this notion of 80%-OK vs. 99%-OK problems, I dove into how the current wars in Ukraine and Gaza have changed AI. For instance, how much leeway do you give to errors when a drone has to identify and lock on a specific target
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🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 8. The battle for the rails
Europe spent ten to fifteen years dreaming of startups while the next battle for tech supremacy was already waged elsewhere, on the new "rails" and critical infrastructure.
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🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 7. The slow incumbents' extinction
The core insight A wave of extinction seems to be hitting many of the industry leaders of the last decades. This is not a random event. The underlying forces of the market are changing irrevocably, and just like Intel or Boeing, anyone can be the next Kodak. The discussion We&
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🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 6. Innovation centers are (mostly) done
The innovation lab seemed to be a great idea years ago. Intrapreneurs, infusing new energy in the system with startup-like energy and all that jazz. The most prominent labs are now all closed, mostly silently and without much to show for. The bean bags and pong table are in a closet. What now?
Strategy
🟢 What's your corporate IETS ratio?
Just a quick 👋 while you are probably readying yourself for the 'back-to-school' period. (Sorry about that.) I'll be back posting my newsletter in its regular format, probably around mid-September. I'm not going to lie; pausing for a little bit of writing so much every
Insights2025
🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 5. Pricing radicalization and the fight for relevancy
The core insight Fair warning: this week's insight will be less documented or rationalized than in the now-usual format, but (if I dare say so myself) it might be one of the most interesting. I'm starting to believe pricing will be more and more radicalized in
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🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 4. Hype, volatility, and short-termism as the new norm
After a short break, we continue our series of 10 strategic insights to prepare for the high volatility brewing in all markets within the next few years...
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🟢 Quick service announcement...
My next two weeks in June are pretty busy as they always are before seemingly everyone escapes to their favored action spot overnight. Consecutively, I'll pause the newsletter and the series about my "10 Strategic Insights for 2025" for the next two weeks. It's
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🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 3. It's all about geopolitics, dummy!
We pursue our exploration of the short-term shifts that will most certainly impact your innovation strategy within the next few years. This week we discuss geopolitics.
AI
🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 2. Robots might come in sooner than expected
The core insight We are all caught in the current AI hype, and justifiably so. ChatGPT and others already give us a taste of a future when any type of data, as complex and numerous as possible, will be transformed into a simple conversation with an artificial mind giving us