how to choose an innovation speaker?
Choisir un conférencier en innovation est une affaire sérieuse, surtout s'il doit inspirer et rassurer vos équipes sur les transformations à venir
Innovation Culture
An innovation culture is an organisation’s ability to make change something people want to embrace rather than endure. It creates the human, structural and decision-making conditions needed to explore, experiment and turn ideas into genuine competitive advantage before the market forces change upon the business.
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Transformation or reinvention
I will not open this like a consultant’s brochure. Actually I will, briefly, because the obvious needs stating: customer preferences that hold for a week, markets that appear and vanish, political fatigue and economic disorder all threaten the existence of…
Trend spotting for SMEs: what to ignore
Trend spotting is treated as a luxury for large companies with a research budget, and that assumption is wrong in a way that costs small businesses real money. The art of catching the mood of the moment and reading deep…
Hiring iconoclasts
Hiring people who argue with your methods, refuse your procedures and question your certainties looks like a management error. It is one of the few durable sources of competitive advantage I know of, and it is the most counter-intuitive recommendation…
The art of unlearning is a status problem
The art of unlearning is always presented as a mental exercise. You are meant to fight your biases, agree to empty your glass and clean house among your beliefs. I repeated that line in keynotes for years, until a field…
The shift philosophy
Most organisations wait until they are ready to change. The Shift philosophy starts from the opposite idea: change never waits for you to be ready, and it has neither a beginning nor an end. It is a flow. For years…
Why this blog “benjamin chaminade”?
Why this blog? The question is a fair one, and Benjamin Chaminade still asks it himself. A blogger since 2004, I had sworn never to run a site under my own name beyond my LinkedIn profile. Out of discretion. Out…
The Shift explained: displacement, not disruption
I spent two years looking for a word. A simple, clear word that would name the displacement companies must operate in their commercial, managerial and recruitment practices. A word that would fit in the narrow space between progressive change, too…
The 6 components of your innovation culture
How to build an innovation culture is a different question from what an innovation culture is. The second has a tidy answer and the first has an order, which is where most attempts come apart. Building and holding one matters…
Enableship, the leadership of innovation
Enableship is the leadership of innovation. It is the level that comes after management and after leadership, and it exists because the first two stopped being enough for organisations that need continuous innovation rather than occasional projects. I arrived at…
What makes a company innovative, really
Apple releases a phone, an electric carmaker releases a car, a rocket company lands a booster. Every week brings a fresh crop of these, and I have spent years presenting them as innovations when almost all of them are inventions.…
The real Innovation DNA
The DNA of innovation is changing. From ownership to usage, from participation where I contribute an idea to collaboration where I share a decision, from selling to freemium. Innovation can be commercial, economic, managerial, procedural or cultural, and everybody in…