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Straightforward discussions on why often we disagree with the current hype, without filters or buzzwords.

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

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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