French entrepreneur & digital innovation expert in Singapore/APAC
Companies are not waiting to be disrupted by startups, leading to the push of corporate innovation. 68 of the world’s largest companies on the Forbes Global 500 List have interacted with startups with in the form of hackathons, accelerators, partnerships and venture funds. Our analysis of a dozen recent initiatives, including The Coca-Cola Founders accelerator, GE Garages events and Swire Properties’ coworking…
Silicon Valley no longer has the monopoly on tech innovation: startups are emerging all over the world with new ideas and technologies, diversifying innovative power to various ecosystems worldwide. Asia in particular is boiling hot and setting new trends. Just think of those two figures from 2016: China’s giant messaging app WeChat processed twice as…
Like many concepts of the knowledge economy, facilitation might sound intangible at best, fuzzy and shallow at worst. And just as other related services such as consulting, brokerage or inspection, a good facilitation depends mostly on the individual doing it, and on key principles and methodology to generate clear outcomes. Over the past few months…
In this new world of Unicorns, the closed (but growing) club of $1bn+ startups, it’s definitely a hard time to be a Dinosaur, as MNCs are often dubbed in comparison. They’re slow and take months, if not years, to go from the idea to the product, as R&D seems unfit to “fail fast” and iterate…
Every year or so, Wired publishes its “Internet is dead” rant, but we could also say it’s a healthy reminder of what are the origins of the Internet, against walled gardens, ivory towers and al the other ways vested interests keep blocking an inescapable liberation of the individual and the rise of communities (see the…
Our project and mission in Kuala Lumpur is about learning how innovation ecosystems work all over the world, starting in year #1 with 10 countries to be visited over the next 10 months during their key events. We had covered a first ecosystem when attending Austin’s SXSW back in March 2013, with a crowdfunding campaign…
Chan Kim, Chair Professor of INSEAD Business School delivered an energic and humorous speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kuala Lumpur, after Malaysia PM Najib Razak and US Secretary of State John Kerry had opened it (see wrap up of the keynote). This professor is known for a strategy called “Blue ocean”. Blue, because…
I’m happy to have done this mentoring project at Change Ventur.es in the end! Fit into a hell of a schedule, I was invited by Grace Clapham, the women of several networks, to talk to a group of 20 people on social media. I’ve taken the time, at last, to put in slides my theory…
I’ve recently published an article in a collective book in French about online influence. I’ve long been curious, researching and working on, with, and for online as well as offline communities, and I felt, as a Frenchman, that this word was not innocent, as it conveys a history of more than 200 years and a…
Once your brain achieves “mobile thinking”, you can try to make your app with simple tools and methodologies. A good starting point when you have found the “job to be done” by the app is to draw the screens of the apps on a wireframe. It will allow you to count every possible step and…