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“Design Manager, a comprehensive role in the innovation process” by Patrick Le Quément

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What is a design manager? It’s not exactly design management, more a leadership responsibility, involving timing, listening and sharing, and opening minds, tells us Patrick Le Quément, former Renault Chief of design Continue reading

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Free, a radical story turning disruptive (3/3)

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What is Free’s next disruptive innovation? Let’s borrow Free glasses for a moment, and assess where it will probaly spend the bulk of its time. What will be its road to ‘Free Dom’? Continue reading

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Free, a radical story turning disruptive (2/3)

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In 2009, Xavier Niel, Free founder and owner, has made up his mind: the future of Internet will be mobile. How will Free replicate the big hit of the Freebox, associating a dramatic advance in technology (ADSL), with an emblematic product (Freebox) and an unchallenged pricing (€29,9) in the mature mobile market? Continue reading

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Free, a radical story turning disruptive (1/3)

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What is radical and what is disruptive innovation? Following clarification on these notions, we go through the story of Free, a French alternative Telco which amazing adventure goes from radical to disruptive innovation. Continue reading

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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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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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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