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My Innovation Radar for 2018 — Part 1, The Weak Singularity

As I did mid-year 2017 [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/my-innovation-radar-for-2017], I will start today a discussion on what I have on my innovation radar. This is what I believe will shape both B2B and B2C markets for the next two to three years. Unlike last year, I will split it

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China innovation now leads the planet, not California

Among other things, China's innovation now leads the on-demand mobility revolution with more and more electric vehicles and… bikes. While I was already forewarning my customers in luxury, automotive, energy, and retail for years, this is hopefully obvious for everyone. The country's size, the problems it

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Digital Is Over Keynote

Tomorrow I’ll be giving a keynote on why digital is “over” and what does it mean both for incumbents and the next wave of businesses in Europe. It will be in Toulouse and in French. I’m still fluent for now, so that should be ok ; ) But most importantly,

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A brief explanation of our logo…

I was asked to explain our innovation copilots logo enough times already that I feel I should just do it on the blog. Here it goes… In 2017 [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/well-10-years/], we moved from France to the Netherlands and decided to rebrand our agency from Merkapt to innovation

The only article to read on blockchain…

Blockchain is over-hyped and confusing. Can’t understand what « an append-only data structure that contains data records that are cryptographically linked together » means? This is normal. And by the time someone explains it to you you’ll feel like you already forgot what it was all about to start with.

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🇨🇳 The 10,000 People Startup

I’ll be in Shanghai next week and Jia Tong University in partnership with Kedge Business School [http://kedge-bs.cn/agenda/mba-info-session-and-open-class-business-model-design-for-multinationals] asked me to give a keynote on one of the topics we work on as consultants. This will probably be a small thing with around 20 persons, but

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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