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🟢 The hidden concept of bisociation
A new innovation prompt this week using the concept of bisociation. Never heard of the term? Exactly!
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🟢 Eight reliable pitch strategies for innovators entering a market
I often state that for innovators, there's not much difference between strategy and marketing, if any at all. Mostly, innovators don't have much time or bandwidth to get early adopters on board, so they must be practical about what they want to communicate. In my book,
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🟢 TRIZ as a cheat code for business model innovation
I had on hold for quite a few weeks an article on how I sometimes use some tools to help generate and challenge business ideas or formulate different business models around new technology. One of the tools I've been using for years is the TRIZ methodology. It'
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Playing the PESTEL bingo
I often used a simple trick when discussing turbulent zones in any market and trying to monitor as weak signals might become trends. I check how many events have been recently going on on a quick PESTEL checklist. If more than 3 or 4 of the letters have been checked
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🟢 Should you be confident that customers know what they want?
I'm taking a few days off this week. Still, I wanted to share a simple reminder of how we often see innovation as a customer-driven process. And in so many cases, it's anything but.
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🟢 Fifty shades of digital
Digital, digital, digital! For most, it seems to be black magic, or worse, a concept so simple that everyone gets it now! Well, it's neither (even if I'm not entirely sure about black magic). Let me share a framework on 'what is digital' that I've been refining for a few years...
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Moving from product to minimum viable business
In October 2012, I was already writing about the Lean Startup and the whole MVP fallacy. As I still get many questions about it, it's probably worth translating the article from French (with some cleaning up) and sharing it again.
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🟢 What's your Kobayashi Maru dilemma?
This week we're done with the GAFAMs and ChatGPT! Let's go back to a key innovation mindset component and some tools. I give you the Kobayashi Maru dilemma... (and yes, I briefly considered trolling Star Trek fans with a Star Wars picture 😱).
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🟢 How to benchmark an innovation ecosystem
To kick off the new year, I wanted to share one of the tools we've used for many years and many different customers. It's about benchmarking an innovation ecosystem.
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The future always starts in crappy mode
When I started to travel and regularly work in Shanghai back then, many things were surprising in how technology was developed and incorporated into everyday life. Many things that would later make China a tech super-power were junky at best. But they were there, burgeoning from duct tape, exposed wires,
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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
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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.