Is there a future for the gas station?
The demand for gas is now on a stable downward trajectory. In
Strategy
How to get from insight to market in a complex, sometimes chaotic, fast-moving world.
Laws & Regulation vs. Innovation
Last June, I discussed some elements of the thermodynamics of innovation and
🟢 What's to learn from how (most) DTC startups failed
Direct-to-Consumer startups (DTC, or sometimes DTM for direct-to-market) were all the craze
Disney is now thinking as a tech platform
Launched 2 years ago, Disney+ 152 million subscribers are now creeping up
Meta is not shedding value because their metaverse sucks
Startups are all about one big, hyper-focused core bet on the future.
The innovation (portfolio) rule of 120
To properly manage a corporate innovation portfolio, I often refer to the
🟢 Preparing your innovation department for an economic nuclear winter
Many budget cuts may be underway for innovation departments in the following months. Blame poor visibility of your actions, the abrupt end of a golden age, or the poor example that major tech companies have been lately. The question is, what could you do about it?
Wide vs Deep, the margin strategy of innovators
For years, Apple has been vastly underrated in many sectors, such as
🟢 How to kill a Facebook (or any network effect-based business for that matter)
We talked many times over about network effects and their indisputable power. The question today is: Is there a self-defense manual against them? Or "How to kill a Facebook"?
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🟢 [ Looking back at ] how platforms and big tech scale
Pursuing my [ Looking back at ] series today by curating about digital platform scaling strategies, why network effects matter, and what we still have a hard time understanding about them (especially if you're a regular multinational in defense mode).
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🟧 [ Dutch week ] ASML, the most strategic European giant you've never heard of
While most of you are probably returning to work this week, I've decided to share a few insights about the Netherlands' tech, design, and innovation. As a country which is only twice as big as London, it makes few headlines, so this might be an interesting exercise. Here goes...
🟢 The Romanesco effect: Reimagining, Diversification, and Reduction.
We make a lot of fuss about innovation frameworks and strategies, whereas innovation is a simple mechanism. It's about Reimagining, Diversification, and from time to time a rare but groundbreaking Reduction.