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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.

Designing an online MBA class

Designing an online MBA class

Since 2009, I’ve been giving a few times a year a class on business model design for the executive MBA students of Kedge Business School, in Marseille, Paris, and Shanghai. It’s usually a fully packed 3-day class where we discuss the difference between managers and leaders as the

Emotions at work

Embodying your values

In this 5th video in the #emotionsatwork series, I am sharing a simple technique to help you rewire your thinking, re-evaluate a situation and upgrade your response to emotional events, whilst staying authentic and true to your values. It is about embodying your values even in the midst of emotional

🎯 Proper innovation marketing

🎯 Proper innovation marketing

I very often discussed this logic for innovators: start with the problem [https://www.icopilots.com/framing-the-problem-you-are-solving/] then explain your added value [https://www.icopilots.com/business-model-for-innovators] as you solve it, and lastly describe the product as the how to do it. This is your strategy; this is also your

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Implementing mentoring

Here are the last two videos (in French) extracted from the mentoring webinar [https://innovation-copilots.ghost.io/mentoring-101/] with Véronique Chapelain from Pole emploi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/veroniquechapelain]. In this last section we discuss how implementing mentoring programmes involves making choices about matching mentors and mentees [https://innovation-copilots.

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Mentoring 101

Mentoring is talked about in so many contexts and with so many different forms that I feel it is key to come back to basics. Here are two short videos (in French) extracted from a much longer webinar / interview with Véronique Chapelain, Director of Executive Talents Development at Pôle emploi

🧩 Framing the problem you are solving

🧩 Framing the problem you are solving

I wrote in 2016 about one of the tools we use to define the four types of problems innovators focus on. As I explained then, this kind of tool is admittedly a cheap sleight of hand. We reduce the complexity of the market to just four simple options. But this

Our New 1-Day Corporate Trainings for Execs

Our New 1-Day Corporate Trainings for Execs

Since 2007, we’ve designed and delivered many corporate trainings for execs and management teams on innovation, strategy, culture change, etc. They were rarely stand-alone programs, but were always designed to support a consulting mission we had with a company. Following that, their goal has always been to allow the

3 Tips for Business Blog Writing

3 Tips for Business Blog Writing

1. Do not write for an audience I know this goes against all good marketing advice, which say “you should know your audience”, “you should speak their language”, etc. Etc. You know that already. But somehow too much empathy leads to self-censorship. And writing is about self-expression, so you see

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Corporate Incubation is Like Fruit Flies Genetics

Most industrial market have endured their own Copernican revolution lately. Whether it was because of mobile, sheer customers discontent or the future threat of artificial intelligence, is of no real importance at this point. What is clear is that the old innovation playbook involving trickling down military technology to B2B

📗 Mentoring by FabMob white paper

As announced last month, the white paper Mentoring by FabMob (La Fabrique des Mobilités), an organization aiming to facilitate learning and innovation for actors of the mobility sector, is finally available for all to download [https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/FabMob/fab-mob-livreblancmentorat5] (those who read French anyway for now). Here

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How to deal with startup fever in your company, part 1

While the first wave of the digital revolution is now well over, most corporations are victims of some level of rude awakening. Surprisingly enough for me, the sovereign cure for their lack of strategic vision has been isolated: startups. As it seems, six-month-old post-internet companies without cash-flow are deemed better

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Trading risks keynote

Follow this link [https://www.meetup.com//en-AU/Darmstadt-InnovationM-Round-Table/events/239564199/?_locale=en-AU&showDescription=true] for further details.

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How to explain your business

Two weeks in Shanghai working with dozens of MBA students holding managerial and executive positions in various industries always ground me back to the basics of business. One of the most basic questioning that managers, innovators, or would-be entrepreneurs are asked is: can you explain your business? The answer is

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Mentoring for innovation culture

To foster innovation in large corporations, several key and « difficult to get » ingredients need to be gathered: creativity, market awareness and risk mindset whilst being reassuring to existing customers with a solid, efficient structure. Mentoring for innovation not only requires being great at what you are doing but also having

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Science against the mentor myth

Forget all your romantic ideas about what a good entrepreneurial mentor is: experienced in entrepreneurship, he/she has started several companies in his/her lifetime, has failed a couple of times and learned from it and succeeded enough time to still be active now. He has mentored several startupers so

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How to prepare for corporate incubation end of party

My last keynote with the FabMob [http://lafabriquedesmobilites.fr/] program, during a private event involving selected startups and industrials at Autonomy 2016 in Paris today. The idea was to discuss how corporate incubation end-of-party is coming quickly to Europe and illustrate the five most prevalent impediments that corporations have to

should your startup apply to a corporate incubation program

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Should your startup apply to a corporate incubation program?

Startups have become a cheap excuse for corporations in lack of innovation strategy. It’s not even breaking news; if you’ve been in the business of guiding companies through the innovation minefield for a while, you’ve already endured several trends coming and going every three or four years—

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When corporates meet startups

As a quick follow-up on my first two articles on corporate innovation (part 1 [https://www.icopilots.com/writing-corporate-incubation-playbook-part-1] and part 2 [https://www.icopilots.com/writing-corporate-incubation-playbook-part-2]), I’ll be presenting a keynote on the relation between startups and corporations in Europe, for companies in the mobility market. The key

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It’s time to let go of the canvas

It’s quite a trip to read the Wikipedia page on ‘business model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_model]‘ where the business model canvas designed by Pigneur and Osterwalder is barely a footnote. In real life, there is probably just a handful of startups or multinationals that haven’t