🟢 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...
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
Where's the crutch technology?
I wrote about NFT technology yesterday and didn't want to get too much in the weeds in an already long post. Still, I'd like to point at a key concept that startups and corporate innovators often miss: the crutch technology.
When you're pushing a
🟢 The explore/exploit fallacy in innovation
I'm encountering more and more this explore/exploit framework with the innovation departments of large corps. Explore/exploit means that they are two modes in the organization. Some teams will be in the first one, while the rest of the organization will be in the other:
Thank you,
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:
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