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My 2022 writing year in review
From the trenches of strategy and innovation, I brought back the material for a few more blogposts and articles that all aim to share learnings that can be useful to others.
In this blogpost you can find the links to:
13 posts for the Vibrance Partners blog or my personal blog,
An article for IBL Group (in French) on “3 key ideas to create new growth drivers with innovation”.
How to get more from your digital transformation?
You might think that digital transformation is old news in 2022. But many organisations are still midway through large digital transformation programs. And when you ask questions, they’re often met with doubts and confusion, especially on what’s exactly in scope and what this digital transformation will bring to the business.
In this blogpost I will show how to use the Business Model Canvas to bring clarity to such complex digital conversations, and open up opportunities to get more growth and resilience from digital transformation.
My 2021 writing year in review
From the trenches of strategy and innovation, I brought back the material for a few more blogposts and articles that all aim to share learnings that can be useful to others.
In this blogpost you can find the links to:
14 posts for the Strategyzer blog or my personal blog,
An article for Raiffeisen INSIDE, Raiffeisen Bank International magazine, on how “culture enables innovation”,
A StratChat webinar on “Developing an Innovation Ecosystem from Scratch with Sergey Zverev from MSD”.
The road from Tackers to Thinkers50
I learnt recently that Alex, Yves, Alan and myself have been shortlisted for the 2021 Strategy Award for our work on The Invincible Company.
I wish I could say that I had never hoped for such recognition… but that would not be entirely true!
In this blogpost I want to tell the story of my 5-year journey from Tackers 2016 to Thinkers50 and express gratitude to the exceptional people in my life who helped me along the way.
The 3 Elements of an Innovation Ecosystem
Developing an innovation capability within a large organization is a daunting prospect. It’s become clear in the last few years that it requires a more systemic approach.
In this post I explain the three core elements required to build an innovation ecosystem: explore portfolio + innovation programs + exploration culture.
Align your Innovation Ecosystem Stakeholders with Clear Explore Guidance
Letting the wrong projects into the Explore portfolio can be a very costly mistake for corporate innovation leaders.
In this article I show how leaders can align the various stakeholders of their innovation ecosystem and bring clarity on their priorities and the boundaries of their exploration with explicit Explore Guidance.
My 2020 writing year in review
I tried to maintain good writing habits in 2020, despite my consulting workload and the impact of the pandemic.
In this post you can find the links to:
12 posts for the Strategyzer blog (that I update regularly on my personal blog),
A white paper: “Chasing European Unicorns” by AmCham, that I contributed to,
The Invincible Company webpage, the book I co-authored and that was released in April 2020.
Innovation Inception: three ideas that unlock innovation in the minds of leaders
In this post I highlight the three fundamental ideas that leaders need to make their own to unleash the transformative innovation potential of their organisations:
1. Exploration is fundamentally different from exploitation,
2. There are different types of innovation: efficiency, sustaining and transformative,
3. To achieve more transformative innovation, you need to bring more volume into your innovation portfolio.
How to unlock better innovation outcomes with the 3 types of innovation framework
In a previous post I explained that, to bring clarity to any conversation on innovation, you need to distinguish between three different types of innovation, heavily borrowed from Harvard professor Clayton Christensen: efficiency, sustaining, and transformative innovation.
In this post I highlight 3 more use cases where the 3 types of innovation framework unlocks radically better innovation outcomes in large organisations by helping to:
Provide better innovation guidance
Assess the balance of an innovation portfolio
Check alignment of a portfolio with expectations
What type of innovation are you talking about?
People often misunderstand each other when they talk about innovation.
In this post I explain how Corporate Innovation Leaders can use the 3 types of innovation framework to bring clarity to their communication on innovation.
How does it feel to become a published author?
In this post I share the anecdote of when Alex Osterwalder went off script when we were recording videos for The Invincible Company and asked me how it felt to become a published author. That question almost choked me… to his great amusement!
How to take The Guesswork Out of Innovation
In innovation and exploration, it is crucial to measure whether you are reducing the risk and uncertainty of new business ideas before you invest big and scale. In this blogpost I introduce the 4 innovation metrics you need to track on very innovation project to take the guesswork out of innovation. RISK, POTENTIAL, TIME and COST.
Three New Tools You Need to Master to Build an Invincible Company
In this article, I introduce three innovation tools that executives and corporate innovation leaders can use to better manage innovation in a large organization: the Strategic Guidance framework, the Portfolio Map and the Culture Map.
Lessons from Hilti on What it Takes to Shift from a Product to a Service Business Model
In this blogpost I illustrate one of the business model patterns, the shift from product to service, with Hilti. And I go behind-the-scenes with Dr. Christoph Loos, CEO of Hilti, to understand what it takes to lead such a business transformation.
How to Use Patterns to Shift an Outdated Business Model to a More Competitive One
No business model can live forever. In this post I show how business model patterns can help executives and innovation teams think through how to substantially improve their current business model by shifting it from a less competitive to a more competitive one.
How to use Business Model patterns to build more resilient businesses
The most successful business models build on patterns, i.e. repeatable configurations of different business model building blocks to strengthen an organization’s overall business model. This is the secret formula behind their success. In this post I introduce the library of business model patterns that we developed in The Invincible Company. And I explain how understanding those patterns helps entrepreneurs and business leaders create better, more resilient businesses.