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The 20 articles on innovation I wish I had written in 2017

Last year was a long year with many new projects to start, new customers to engage and work trips to China, Japan, the US and six different EU countries. You might think that such period are the worst to be writing on innovation and you be both wrong and totally

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Trading Risks Keynote at Merck’s

A few months ago I was invited by Merck Innovation center in Darmstadt for a one hour keynote on risk, startup and multinationals. As always a trendy topic, but it happens to be ones that I know a few things about. Skip to 0:10:55 if you really don’

What’s A Computer

What’s A Computer

Apple asks shows “What’s a Computer.” Powerful reminder and smart marketing on how this object has evolved from what most of us still think it is… And astute paradox on the ‘pro’ suffix.

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My next keynote on the second coming of Cloud

Stéphanie and I are regularly delivering strategic keynotes for executive boards in various markets. They all address key issues at stake for specific industrial customers. They are also all wrapped under some form of NDA or another. While it’s always frustrating not to be able to share things, we

Can iPhones have a soul?

Can iPhones have a soul?

There is no denying that the younger the demographic is, the newest the technology should be. And whatever your age, when you love technology, there is no way to escape the endorphin rush from unpacking a new gadget. And that’s fine. As we age, we progressively shift our values

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12 Things we learned in 10 years of consulting

My good friend Stéphane (and sometimes partner in crime) has made a remarkable two-part blog [http://15marches.fr/business/post-mortem] about his “post-mortem” of four years of consulting. This is only in French, though, but hurry up and Google-translate it. I don’t think we would change a word to

It’s not about product or service

It’s not about product or service

It’s not about product or service anymore. It never was. Since the beginning every transaction has always been a product and a service. But you might be confused because finance is still looking hard at Capex versus Opex, and that’s fair. Tax people might still lag and account