Diversity as a success story

Diversity: your best innovation partner By integrating both internal and external views into idea generation, development processes and open innovation strategies, businesses and organizations showcase the value of diversity to optimize inspiration, problem-solving, change management and customer relationships. Those approaches enable to apprehend diversity beyond the usual gender, ethnic and religious scopes that are developed by analysts, press and media. Instead,… Read More Diversity as a success story

November 6, 2015November 7, 2015 weareinnovationLeave a comment

A complex vision of tomorrow

From art to technology, our visions of tomorrow are filled with emotions and questions that highlight our curious relationship with uncertainty. Rising both the tools to better thrive in a challenging environment and the needs expressed by communities of innovators, experts and analysts outline flexible approaches to apprehend technology developments. Opening systemic debates, rather than simple… Read More A complex vision of tomorrow

October 17, 2015October 17, 2015 weareinnovationLeave a comment

Market Roadmap: New Strategy, New Marketing

Market Roadmaps build a market story for selected innovation trends. Today we look at the latest marketing and strategy tools that have emerged from the connected businesses and markets. We in particular learn how digital tools enable a higher definition of existing markets, newly defined stories and conversations with customers. If you’d like to share… Read More Market Roadmap: New Strategy, New Marketing

July 6, 2015July 6, 2015 weareinnovationLeave a comment

Intentional Reading

On The Go is your innovation story inspired from elsewhere. A few days ago, a friend of mine took me through his analysis of an economist we both read. While I thought, from what I know about his background, his ideas, his behaviour and knowledge, that we would have pleasantly shared a common agreement with… Read More Intentional Reading

November 29, 2014December 1, 2014 weareinnovationLeave a comment

Teaching the World to Change

InnoTrends is a monthly innovation trends analysis per segment. Today we look at Universities, Schools and Institutes. The New Basics Finance and economy Sapnoti Eswar from the London Business School warns against the use of risks based financial strategy over longer term innovation. As he says, “firms may be able to use complex financial products,… Read More Teaching the World to Change

November 17, 2014November 17, 2014 weareinnovationLeave a comment

Interoperability creates boundless creativity

Back when I was still working for my former employer, I used to develop concepts and market requirements for interoperable projects. “Interoperability”, a long word which holds the charm of a lengthy story. It’s meant to bring technologies to connect to each other, ultimately connecting people behind. It’s meant to build new breeds of networks.… Read More Interoperability creates boundless creativity

October 21, 2014November 8, 2014 weareinnovationLeave a comment

“Big Innovation Now”? A parallel reading exercise

On the Go is your weekly innovation inspired by elsewhere. Sometimes “elsewhere” is not very far. Today, it’s just next door. Because of the critical economic, technological, social, cultural and systemic impact of Big Data, it is important to understand what mechanics lay behind, and actually, also beyond. There are free resources to get… Read More “Big Innovation Now”? A parallel reading exercise

October 10, 2014November 8, 2014 weareinnovationLeave a comment

We Are Innovation, because we rethink creatively

Innovation starts with creativity. Throwing ideas in and learning to select those which go to market. Learning to create the selection path. Learning to teach it to others. Learning to learn. Creativity is boundless, innovation draws its boundaries: technical, financial, market and trends, resources. Creativity helps pushing those boundaries further. Throwing ideas in It… Read More We Are Innovation, because we rethink creatively

October 8, 2014November 8, 2014 weareinnovation1 Comment

Travelling, Body and Soul

WAI “On The Go” is your Friday innovation story inspired from elsewhere. I recently came across a beautiful article about Yoga from the monthly printed version of Books magazine (in France). In this translated version of her article, Rebecca Mead takes us through times and landscapes of Yoga, this oriental practise that has become… Read More Travelling, Body and Soul

September 19, 2014November 8, 2014 weareinnovationLeave a comment

We Are Innovation because we are diverse

Painful times of crisis, be it for the economy, politics, and the explosive mixture of it with systematic blaming of “others” rather than ourselves for failing to challenge the world we live in. Boundaries, frontiers, restrictions, issues, shortage, everyone is trying to scale down humanity to rights, papers, money, flows, data… limits. Painful times where… Read More We Are Innovation because we are diverse

September 17, 2014November 8, 2014 weareinnovationLeave a comment