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

12-years-icopilots

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

invisible technology - keynote

My next keynote on Invisible Technology

When technology is so impactful and ubiquitous for our lives, it ends up disappearing in the background of everything we do. It becomes an invisible part of the operating system of our lives. Electricity has become in most of the world such an invisible technology. The very mundanity of plugging

iphone have a soul - innovation copilots

To know if Apple is doomed or not

To wrap up 2015 fiscal year, Tim COOK tried to put in perspective the growth of his company: > To put that into some context, our growth in one year was greater than the full year revenue of almost 90% of the companies in the Fortune 500.Tim COOK For

How bad is the good idea of juniors mentoring seniors

For some years now, the practice of “reverse mentoring” – digital natives/juniors mentoring seniors – has been deployed in some large corporations with the aim of getting senior employees and managers up to speed with the digital age. The term "reverse mentoring" has been created to distinguish itself from

Car manufacturers are the new Nokia

Car manufacturers are the new Nokia

For anyone seriously involved in innovation, it’s stunning to realize that the industry learned nothing from early 2000s Nokia. People still think of the car industry as a hardware business. It’s all about the car, the engine, the brakes, the dashboard, the performance, the security, and the comfort.

small is beautiful

Death Awaits You ALL, my LIFT14 Keynote

I had the great opportunity to be invited to LIFT14 first session on February 5. The session is boldly entitled Managing Innovation Cycles – Let Live And Let Die [https://web.archive.org/web/20170618231835/http://liftconference.com:80/lift14/sessions] and will involve pretty cool people (at least the first