Obsidian, a perfect 'magic spot' case study
Pitching innovation is hard. It gets harder when you don't
Toolbox
Our practical hacks, tools, and frameworks were designed through more than 15 years of consulting on innovation for startups and multinationals.
🟢 What is a canary in the coal mine?
One innovation tool we often use is the "canary in the coal mine." I've been illustrating and writing about quite a few in different contexts these last few years but never really explained the tool and how to use it. So, here goes...
Who are your competitors?
Imagine you're the Mars company, and your best-seller product is
🟢 Timing technology push and market pull for incubation programs
One of the most requested frameworks I often have from corporate customers is how Gartner's hype and innovation diffusion work together. To my knowledge, this is weirdly never discussed. So despite this summer's heat waves here goes...
🟢 Growth engine vs. Network effect vs. Flywheel
Not quite the summer's read for the beach (I know, I know) but an important article for startups and corporate innovators nonetheless. Why innovate if you don't bring change in the market at scale after all? And how do you plan for scale?
Dealing with the paradox of choice in innovation
In a video made famous in 2007, when TED Talks still seemed
🟢 9 Strategies for service innovation
🟢 The pace layers of innovation
Why the different forms of innovation can only move at a different speed. Not so much because some are slower or faster, but because they impact different layers of the market infrastructure.
🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 3
The last entry in our innovation portfolio series deals with the most important of it all: your organizational culture.
From business model to flywheel effect
If you read this blog – or better, if you've been
🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 2
In this second part of our series on how to build a proper corporate innovation portfolio, we are talking numbers, critical mass of projects, and optionality over serendipity!
🟢 Building a proper innovation portfolio - Part 1
Few corporations have been capable of transitioning from a pipeline to an innovation portfolio. We can blame well-known business books for oversimplifying the issues at stake, but also, the non-linearity of a portfolio strategy genuinely baffles most executives. Let's share some insights...