Elementary particles of innovation

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Harnessing collective intelligence to enhance your innovation can progress through different forms: open innovation, social innovation and user-led innovation, idea improvement program, business plan competition, collaborative design, strategic community networks, open source, … But how do these various initiatives converge … Continue reading

Successful innovations meet “social imaginaries” by Stéphane Hugon, sociologist and managing consultant

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Imagination and Innovation Stéphane Hugon is a reckognized sociologist, researcher, and teacher at both Descartes-Sorbonne Paris University and Paris National Design School (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) focusing on linking innovative technology with consumer usages. Stéphane cofounded consulting agency Eranos, … Continue reading

Once the dust of Social TV hype settles, content recommendation will be changed forever (2/2)

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In this second part of the conversation (part I), Ben Schwarz, CEO, CTOi Consulting, and Nicolas Bry, Senior VP, Orange Vallee, continue their detailed analysis of how to harness Content Discovery and Social TV, and introduce the concept of Blended … Continue reading

Once the dust of Social TV hype settles, content recommendation will be changed forever (1/2)

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Benjamin Schwarz is an old friend since the early days of IPTV in 2004, and also one of the best professional in digital TV I know. Recognized international expert on converging media and technologies, he bloggs at  CTOIC.net. We often … Continue reading

Wandering from Intelligent Things to Smart TV

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The world of Intelligent Things Netexplo presented recently a meaningful conference related to the world of Intelligent Things. What is this world? Intelligent Things are objects which “become” intelligent because they connect to the Internet. At Lieu du Design, in a … Continue reading

Rethinking Business Models for Innovation, by Valérie Chanal, Professor in management, Grenoble University

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Rethinking business models for innovation  Valérie Chanal, experienced professor in management, and previously Umanlab research director, has recently published a great book “Rethinking business models for innovation” (free download) going through the relationship between successful innovation and creative business models. She tells … Continue reading

Let them hack your innovation!

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Thousands of different ways There are many ways to harness collective intelligence to enhance your innovation, and drive “hackers to explore the details of your innovation and stretch its capabilities”: open innovation, social innovation, collaborative design, open source,… Each of them … Continue reading

Innovation is cultural design

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Innovation has become a cultural object In our society, innovation has become a cultural achievement: addressing consumers  in-depth expectations, it echoes functional, statutory, and hedonistic aspirations: some people talk about reenchantement, deriving from reality to access dream. Are we talking here … Continue reading

Creative innovation: individual leadership and collective intelligence, by Thomas Paris, HEC Professor of Management

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Thomas Paris is Professor of Management at HEC Business School (Managing creation, talents and networks classe) and researcher at GREGHEC. Graduate from Ecole Polytechnique in 1991, he completed a doctorate in 1999.  Thomas is more specifically focused on innovation management and … Continue reading

Leveraging on social media to market your innovation

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Leveraging on social media  Social media is an economic and fluent way to build awareness, and a return loops with your customers.  It enables accurate shots, targeting successive online communities, with creative opportunities at limited expenses: Facebook “like” and Tweeter can contribute strongly to spread … Continue reading

Collaborative design, and the social TV case study

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The rising gap between exploration and development    Though innovation is supposed to process along the “rugby approach” defined by Professor Nonaka, innovation in large companies is more like a relay race. Innovation goes through successive handover from R&D and exploratory teams to … Continue reading

Marketing successfully your innovation

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Marketing innovation traps Once you’ve enough  iterated your innovation to sharpen it to go to market, you might feel relieved. But there are still several traps to address if you’re willing to “cross the chasm“. 1. Needs aren’t enough Identify “an intense and shared need” … Continue reading

Smart TV: who will lead the disruption?

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Will Smart TV be the same revolution that Smart Phone was for the mobile handset? Is it more an incremental innovation? If the business game welcomes new rules and new entrants, who will be the leader of this disruption? Let’s … Continue reading

“Strong innovation with a broad impact” by Marc Giget, CEO of European Innovation Institute (2/2)

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Marc Giget is a French expert in the field of innovation who enjoys an international reputation. Below is the second part of the interview we conducted with him (interview part 1), where we focus on what organization set-up and  how to … Continue reading

“True innovators want to change people’s life” by Marc Giget, CEO of European Innovation Institute (1/2)

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Marc Giget  is a French expert in the field of innovation who enjoys an international reputation. A graduate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS) and Doctor of International Economics … Continue reading