Innovation organization only thrives along with innovation culture

Innovation organization doesn’t thrive without innovation culture: organization without culture is like a factory without raw materials; culture without organization doesn’t scale.

The three musketeers of innovation at Cdiscount

Open innovation with startups is a long quiet river at Cdiscount. Let’s dig in this smooth process.

Participative Innovation at France Job Center, with Reynald Chapuis

Reynald Chapuis is Innovation and CSR manager at France Job Center (Pôle Emploi). He shares with us the various and tangible initiatives he lead at Pôle Emploi, from participative innovation, E-Novaction platform, Innovation Lab, Innovation App store, emploi-store.fr, to the open innovation cluster, Lab RH. Welcome to a world where unemployment is not a fatal, but can trigger a rebound.

Agile at Orange France, with Koen Vermeulen

Koen Vermeulen is CIO at Orange France, and awarded CIO of the year in 2015. He kindly accepted to answer a few questions related to the implemnation of Agile methodology, and how it brings a brand new spirit for innovation projects.

Scaling-up your innovation internationally, with Sihem Jouini and Christophe Midler

Sihem Jouini and Christophe Midler, heading the PIC Master at Polytechnique Engineering and HEC Business School, just published a book on ‘Innovation management and globalization’, encompassing the research work and internship experience of their students.

Creating structured innovation

I will handle a Discussion Group on Sept 22nd in London at Service Delivery Innovation Summit, and it is about … More

Open Innovation is not easy, but is facilitated in the digital world

Hereafter is a short interview I completed with Dan Taylor, from Market Gravity, for his book on Innovation in Large … More

Internet of Things, from connected to inter-connected objects

Below is a video of a brief introduction I completed on IoT and 2014 Netexplo Award Winner, John Matherly (USA) … More

How disruptive Innovation drives autonomy and alignment

Interview about ‘Disruptive innovation and video-over-mobile’, delivered at London TV Connect – 2014

Is Paris taking the lead in the Digital Economy?

‘Digital native’, Paris cannot be, due to its respectable age; but ‘digital friendly’, yes we can! The Paris Region Economic Development Agency is a non-profit organization providing services to foreign companies to soft land in the region.

Innovation Soft Power

Over time I realize how it is less vital to design things by myself, and more impactful to sense and inspire.

Accelerating Innovation with APIs: Social TV case study at Orange

Radioscopy of an innovation shortcoming

It happens everyday: processes slow down innovation. Stage process don’t flow without meaning. Going through a fictional innovation story, we sort 2 lessons out around ‘feature team’ and ‘leadership’, that would be worth tested in your next innovation challenge.

Coding a Nifty Innovation Unit

Autonomy, Creative Tension, Strategic Alignement & Pollenisation, Modular design: 4 pillars you want to plug in your innovation unit

Enablers of the Digital World: African street-innovation (2/2)

For international Telcos, the challenge is to embellish the network with services and APIs . To capture local patterns, going in the field and meeting with local mobile app makers and entrepreneurs, connecting trends to innovation Labs, and desiging bespoke enablers, testing, learning and iterating with developers community, are the ingredients of the right formula.