Let’s be honest: when you're building a startup, it’s natural to fall in love with your product or your tech. You've spent countless hours refining it, maybe even years. So, of course, it becomes the centerpiece of your pitch, your slides, and your story. Except no one cares| innovation copilots
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When discussing digital innovation, it isn't easy to top the level of sheer magical thinking that the term platform amassed for more than a decade. The simplest definition of a digital platform might be to explain that it's a proprietary system that connects customers online, enabling interactions and transactions to| innovation copilots
Back in 2013 (I know...) I was presenting Geoffrey Moore's fundamental model of innovation cycles from his book Dealing With Darwin. The core idea was that, despite being dressed up in complex models, you can fundamentally describe product innovation as just three modes: Reimagining — introducing an entirely| innovation copilots
When you build an innovation pipeline, you’re often confusing linear efficiency with strategic agility. Innovation isn’t a 100% controlled flow; it’s an ongoing negotiation with uncertainty. Pipelines assume you already know the destination, which means you've pre-killed any chance to pivot, adapt,| innovation copilots
A steady, small giant Brompton is a UK-based bike company. Its story is one of long-term focus and strategic restraint: for nearly 50 years, the company has refined a single idea: a compact, durable folding bike for urban mobility. It's a deeply process-driven culture with a unique product, and a| innovation copilots
In this series of five articles, I will discuss each of the current GAFAMs as 2023 might be the year their reign of supremacy on our life, work, and social connection comes to an end.| innovation copilots
It's the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh, and you'll read many stories about how it was such a paradigm change for so many people in the way they saw computers, some of them becoming so enthusiastic that it was a critical inflecting point for their life and future career. Not| innovation copilots
In this series of articles for the summer, I explore the key differences between innovation during linear and relatively stable times and those like... now.| innovation copilots
In the 2013 movie Her, Joachim Phoenix falls in love with his new mobile/home operating system, an ethereal cloud-based AI played by Scarlett Johansson. This near-future dystopia plays on our interactions with Alexa or Siri could evolve and what it means to be a human being blah blah blah.| innovation copilots
Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Corporate Venturing's only a tool among many others, and while it can be a fantastic way to boost an innovation program, it also has limits. Corporate Venturing is having its moment (again) Most corporations now seem to understand that startups being pushed into| innovation copilots
Like Sam Altman, we dream of HER. You know, Scarlett Johansson’s voice, the gentle omnipresence of an AI that anticipates our needs, laughs at our jokes, and understands our deepest aspirations. A technology that feels like companionship. And like Stanley Kubrick, we fear HAL. The archetype of the cold,| innovation copilots
Instead of projecting the future of AI and speculating on how fast the technological roadmap will advance (or stall), it's far more effective to focus on understanding the specific perimeters in which AI can reliably operate today.| innovation copilots
Google rolled out its flagship healthcare AI, Med‑Gemini, with fanfare, until a board‑certified neurologist publicly called out a major screw-up: the AI “invented” a brain structure called the “basilar ganglia” (seemingly confusing the basal ganglia with the basilar artery). Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part| innovation copilots
The effective and no-nonsense innovation framework we use to design new business models for startups and multinationals alike.| innovation copilots
There's something no one really says out loud in the innovation field: Strategyzer's tools are at best a mixed blessing; oftentimes just a pain in the ass. The short version is that spending a few hours filling in a Business Model Canvas (BMC) will give you the illusion of designing| innovation copilots
Don't ask why (or blame my age), but I was pondering yesterday whether there was any value in being a Gen Xer in the consulting business. Remember who we are? Probably not. That's our feature as a generation. Always forgotten. We are the generation that got| innovation copilots
An interview with KEDGE Business School back from 2021 about the COVID crisis that still sounds about right to me if you change COVID for Trump, Taiwan, Gaza, Ukraine, or AI...| innovation copilots
In 2002, Citigroup — fresh from a merger between Citicorp and Travelers Group — hired Pentagram’s Paula Scher to design their new logo. Classic corporate brief: millions at stake, layers of stakeholders, and a brand too big to fail. Scher walked into the room, listened, and then sketched| innovation copilots
I was already presenting the four main problem categories innovative companies can solve in any market back in... 2016. Since then, I have made significant changes to the way I present this, and although I made a quick update in 2020, I never presented the complete framework here. So, let&| innovation copilots
In this series of articles for the summer, I explore the key differences between innovation during linear and relatively stable times and those like... now.| innovation copilots
One of the most annoying memes in corporate innovation is that failure is OK. Don't get me wrong, I understand the good-vibe intent and (even more technically) the need to create a safe space for innovation to occur and encourage risk-taking in environments where risk is anything but| innovation copilots
In case you're still in doubt, real money has been made this year with AI. I was breaking down for one of our industrial customers where the big moves were made, and I was a tad surprised. Here's the breakdown of the big AI money makers in 2025 (projected): Company| innovation copilots
A simple and practical but deep culture framework describing how any company thinks and acts.| innovation copilots
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...| innovation copilots
A recent statement from Meta to Axios adds up to previous statements from companies like Apple regarding Europe: Meta plans to incorporate expansively the new version of its AI tools, which can reason across video, audio, images, and text (multimodal models), in a wide range of products, including smartphones and| innovation copilots
A recent and interesting story from Wired illustrates a core principle of non-incremental innovation: don't listen to your customers. How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People’s FridgesForget the S&P 500. Look at the ice cream. This investor visits homes around the world to see where diets—and| innovation copilots
Back in 2021, China accounted for more than 20% of Nike's worldwide sales. Fast-forward to today, and sales have steadily eroded below 15% without hope of recovering in the next few years. The reasons for this seemingly irreversible decline might be numerous, but at the core, it's all about the| innovation copilots
Apple's new AI features, known as Apple Intelligence, along with updates in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, will seemingly not be available in the EU this year due to regulatory challenges. Apple is playing a dangerous game of chicken with Europe and has tagged the company as one| innovation copilots
Two days ago, Apple announced that it would integrate artificial intelligence deep into its mobile OS. They call it Apple Intelligence because, well, Apple has to be Apple. The headline is that Siri will get some IQ points back and will eventually act like what we expect from a standard| innovation copilots
An interesting controversy started two days ago when the latest Apple ad promoting their new iPad model raised hell from... pretty much everyone. The video is the kind of high production value we're accustomed to with Apple, and it shows a huge hydraulic press crunching together musical instruments, records, books,| innovation copilots
When discussing innovation (changing the market), it's often overlooked that your brand will hold you back, sometimes drastically. A brand embodies your market's tacit and explicit expectations about what you deliver. If in doubt about it, or even if you don't know how much brand you have, strip away the| innovation copilots