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Stanford Ignite – Polytechnique: “We give you the tools and you create”

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Are you fond of innovation and entrepreneurship? Have you a secret innovative project that you are dying to spring-up? Will you endorse soon responsibilities to lead a major innovation initiative within your company? Yossi Feinberg,  Faculty director at Stanford, was … Continue reading

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USI 2013, an event not to be missed

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Are you committed to an Information Technology that transforms our society? You should be part of the USI event on June 24 and 25, the singular meeting between Geeks and Bosses! This year’s conference will be structured around 4 comprehensive … Continue reading

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Blue Ocean for your innovation commitment

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New comers show tremendous initiatives: Spotify, Flavi, Netflix, Valve have successfully implemented flexible empowering organizations, and humanistic culture values. One might wonder which model to embrace. Blue Ocean approach gives us a few tips we can apply to craft your own strategy: tuning the level of key attributes of innovation value proposition. Continue reading

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Breaking the code for creative ecosystem

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Ingi Brown, Ph.D. student at CGS Management Center-Mines ParisTech,  recently defended his thesis on ‘use-generative products’: products that engage and encourage a broad exploration of their uses. Accordingly, Ingi proposed a new model of goods as design spaces. Following is … Continue reading

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An inside look at social TV in France

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Below is a short interview I completed about Social TV with Natan Edelsburg from Lost Remote. It gives a few insights on how Social TV unfolds in France, analyses the various strategies of the players, and what show are the most … Continue reading

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You say second screen. I say first!

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I stole this ticklish title from Ogilvie Entertainment futurist presentation ‘The end of TV as we know it’, a nice piece of work designed by @Dougscottogilvy and @Themattdoh. It clearly hit the nails that mobile, not TV, will become the ‘first … Continue reading

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Finding Balance with Rapid Innovation

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Below is a short interview I completed about Rapid Innovation with Emiley McCole,  Marketing at Imaginatik. It stresses on the importance of ‘creative tension’, a simple innovation framework that guides creative teams, and help them focus on meaningful challenges’. Imaginatik helps organizations … Continue reading

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Creative cooperation across borders

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Borders are not limited to geography: from one industry to another, surprising contrasts arise in ways of conducting business. Global connectivity is blowing up protected nests. The question knocking at your door is: since cooperation is a “must-do”, how do we lay the foundation to drive it as its best? Continue reading

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How small innovation teams hit the nail

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‘Small Is Beautiful‘ comes from a collection of essays by British economist E. F. Schumacher, first published in 1973. Championing small organizations, believed to empower people, asserting that ‘people can be themselves only in small comprehensible groups’, it strongly contrasts … Continue reading

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Digital innovation awards, Netexplo at Unesco

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What is more refreshing and inspiring than innovations waves coming from all over the world? During 2 days, the annual award ceremony from Netexplo sets the pace for international digital innovation, and it’s an awesome moment. What is Netexplo? “Netexplo … Continue reading

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Open Innovation and distributed business model with API

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Open Innovation can be sustainably supported by API and the cooperation assets it brings. API not only accelerate innovation endeavour, they generate new revenue streams, strengthen your marketing campaigns, and extend your reach in distributed business models. It’s time to … Continue reading

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Low cost, high value: boarding pass to disruption!

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The common thought about competing with low-cost manufacturing countries is to go for higher-end products, powered by advanced technologies, and thus maintain substantial margins. Professor Christophe Midler does not buy it: in his latest book, “The Logan story, new directions … Continue reading

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Using a War Room to create pervasive Innovations

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Why did we fail? Your teams did their market research. They ran an array of consumer insight sessions. They found the customers real Need. They ran professional ideation and storyboard sessions. They created prototypes and performed market tests. They developed … Continue reading

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10 secrets Internet Giants share about growth

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Internet giants are not only shaping creative business models, they are reinventing the way to manage computer science, software applications, and moreover, to better their human capital. As their new products are intrisincally linked to computing, their reengineering unfolds new … Continue reading

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2012 in review

2012 ‘Rapid Innovation ‘ report delivered by wordpress shows 34 new posts, 53,000 views, and visitors from 164 countries : not bad for a French blog focused on digital innovation! Most of these blog’s articles are published on Innovation Excellence,”the … Continue reading