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Our practical hacks, tools, and frameworks that we designed through 15 years of consulting on innovation for both startups and multinationals.

🧭 7 Questions to map your future

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🧭 7 Questions to map your future

I evoked last week how clever expedients are useful for innovators, and I wanted to share one example this Friday. It's a simple brain twister Shell developed when bright people were roaming their offices. It can be used as a game or interactive facilitation technique about how a team deals

🧐 The problem(s) with ideation in innovation programs

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🧐 The problem(s) with ideation in innovation programs

Whether you deal with an intrapreneurship program or another flavor of corporate innovation, chances are that you are starting with an ideation phase. Over the years, the very existence of such an initial step has become a vividly blinking red flag for me. The reasons are that ideation is... 1.

🎯 Obsidian, a perfect 'magic spot' case study

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🎯 Obsidian, a perfect 'magic spot' case study

Pitching innovation is hard. It gets harder when you don't have a clear business model to explain. If you do, though, things get straightforward as you just have to explain what is your added value and core offer. Take Obsidian, for instance. Just another note-taking app in a market where

🧁 Dealing with the paradox of choice in innovation

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🧁 Dealing with the paradox of choice in innovation

In a video made famous in 2007, when TED Talks still seemed amazing, Barry Schwartz made the case for limiting options and choices all around us. Especially in retail and marketing. The paradox of choice stipulates that while we might believe that being presented with multiple options actually makes it

⚙️ From business model to flywheel effect

⚙️ From business model to flywheel effect

If you read this blog – or better, if you've been working with us – you know that we frequently rely on our innovation and culture frameworks. Both are designed to highlight the core mechanisms at play in strategizing an innovation project, connecting the dots with operations, and serving as clear internal

🚔 As tech crosses the chasm

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🚔 As tech crosses the chasm

A key innovation signal is when technology gets past a certain point of adoption with early adopters and finds a beachhead to the early core market. This transition is what makes or breaks an innovation--adopting the 'new' by said core market. In 1991, Geoffrey Moore was the first to formalize

📕 Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Report

📕 Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Report

Our Mobility-as-a-Service Report (MaaS) commissioned by the French National Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME [https://www.ademe.fr/en]) and the General for Infrastructure, Transport, and the Sea (DGITM [https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/direction-generale-des-infrastructures-des-transports-et-mer-dgitm] ) is now available. It was researched and produced with my friends Julien de Labaca [http:

🦄 Startup Web Training

🦄 Startup Web Training

After years in the making, months of preparation, and tests, we are officially launching our startup web training program. A web school for entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and innovators.

🍾 Market predictions with systemic bottleneck analysis

🍾 Market predictions with systemic bottleneck analysis

A few days ago, I discussed [https://www.icopilots.com/covid-19-whos-going-to-recover-profit-or-disappear/] how systemic bottleneck analysis could be a reliable way to make market predictions in a high uncertainty context. While I’m often baffled that consulting firms never really share how the prediction sausage is made, I truly believe it’

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🦠 Covid-19, Who’s going to recover, profit or disappear?

I’ll be giving tomorrow a free public webinar on my next Covid-19 predictions, in partnership with Kedge Business School EMBA at 12:30 PM (CET). The talk will be about predictions as it is the fun part, but the key idea for me is to share some perspectives on

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Retrograde analysis, a tool, and a mindset to deal with high uncertainty

These last weeks have been, hectic and you’ve seen me posting a bit less than usual. Among other things, I spent quite some time giving webinars to a few of our industrial customers in Europe. The need to address innovation programs retooling is quite pressing for everyone. A part

strategic mentoring

Strategic mentoring in times of crisis

Since the first edition of my white paper about strategic mentoring in 2015, I have observed, designed and supported many mentoring programs. Organizations who had managed to incorporate mentoring as part of their culture seemed to have navigated the COVID-19 crisis much better than others. This second edition of the