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Are potentially disruptive innovations flying under your radars?

Are potentially disruptive innovations flying under your radars?

What is the possibility that a radical innovation, initially imperfect, will call into question your established positions?
316b – A look at the news (2 p.) Radical Innovation
Foster radical innovation

Foster radical innovation

Innovation is at the heart of company priorities. Yet, large organizations mostly limit themselves to marginal innovations while leaving start-ups the prerogative for disruptive innovations. How can you set up an environment that is propitious to radical innovation?
290b – Synopsis (8p.) Radical Innovation
Foster disruptive innovation

Foster disruptive innovation

Game-changing innovations frequently dethrone incumbent players… However, there are many potential pitfalls along the way. How to overcome these challenges?
206a – Synopsis (8p.) Radical Innovation
Adopting innovations developed outside your organization

Adopting innovations developed outside your organization

Innovation is subject to fashion trends. Lucidity, strategic thinking and rigorous analysis are valuable assets to avoid wasting a lot of energy.
184a – Synopsis (8p.) Innovation Strategy
Contradictions, a source of innovation?

Contradictions, a source of innovation?

Great leaders are able to surmount apparent contradictions to devise original solutions that bridge the two initial options. How can you draw inspiration from their example to turn dilemmas into a source of creativity?
268b – Synopsis (8p.) Decision Making
Reconnect with your ingenuity to boost your capacity for innovation

Reconnect with your ingenuity to boost your capacity for innovation

Long considered as players with low added value, emerging countries are showing a surprising ability to innovate. What can be learned from their innovation approach?
213b – Synopsis (8p.) Experimentation
The new innovation leader

The new innovation leader

Innovation is often seen as the work of a visionary genius. Yet, other innovation leadership models exist that are more accessible. How can leaders create an environment conducive to the creativity of their teams?
237b – Synopsis (8p.) Innovation Strategy
Handling failures productively

Handling failures productively

Accepting the possibility of failure is essential in order to be able to experiment, innovate and adapt. But on a day-to-day basis, it is very often the need for operational performance that prevails. How can we identify and promote productive failures?
337a – Synopsis (8 p.) Experimentation
Stimulating your creativity

Stimulating your creativity

Faced with the need to innovate, we can organize ourselves to generate ideas in sufficient numbers for some of them to bear fruit. And artificial intelligence tools can help us push back the borders of our creativity.
322a – Synopsis (8 p.) Creativity
Conjugating invention and imitation

Conjugating invention and imitation

Western cultures frequently contrast imitation and creativity. And yet, imitation can be an effective way to develop creative ideas. How can we leverage it to accelerate our innovations and make them more reliable?
313a – Synopsis (8p.) Innovation Strategy
Experiment in the age of data

Experiment in the age of data

Relying on the current capabilities of data processing, many companies have placed continuous experimentation at the heart of their innovation strategy. How can you develop the rigor required for such an approach?
299b – Synopsis (8p.) Experimentation
Renewing the creative momentum of your teams

Renewing the creative momentum of your teams

To foster creativity, rather than going to search for talents and methods outside the company, it might be equally beneficial to rely on internal forces. How can you unleash the creativity of your own teams?
298a – Synopsis (8p.) Creativity
Innovate like a start-up

Innovate like a start-up

The rise in power of digital innovations is often perceived as a threat to the established players. In the face of start-ups, how can they reinvent themselves to win the race for innovation?
292b – Synopsis (8p.) Innovation Strategy
Implementing Design Thinking

Implementing Design Thinking

Based on proximity to the end user, on pragmatism and agility, Design Thinking promises to boost innovation. But this method can prove demanding to implement. How can you make the best possible use of it in your organization?
277b – Synopsis (8p.) Innovation Strategy
Growth secrets of digital champions

Growth secrets of digital champions

To get to the top, the digital age seems to give the advantage to “eagles”, which rise in uninterrupted cycles, over “mountain goats”, which take successive leaps forward. How can we learn from the recipes of these growth champions?
264b – Synopsis (8p.) Growth
Improve the creative dynamic in your teams

Improve the creative dynamic in your teams

Team creativity largely depends on the ability to build on the ideas of others. How can you draw on theatrical improvisation techniques to optimize the quality of creative discussions?
262a – Synopsis (8p.) Creativity
Feed your creative spark

Feed your creative spark

Brilliant insights often spring to mind unexpectedly. These “Eureka moments” don’t happen by chance and aren’t the exclusive preserve of a few creative geniuses. How can we create the conditions for this creative spark to arise?
247b – Synopsis (8p.) Creativity
Intrapreneurship: A growth vector to explore

Intrapreneurship: A growth vector to explore

Is the entrepreneurial spirit only for start-ups? In established businesses, the capacity of employees to support innovation is often stifled. How can you help intrapreneurs reveal themselves in your organization?
240a – Synopsis (8p.) Innovation Strategy
Boosting efficiency: new opportunities to explore

Boosting efficiency: new opportunities to explore

Is it still possible to gain in efficiency when everything has already been tried? In a complex environment where traditional methods prove counterproductive, other drivers must be found.
231b – Synopsis (8p.) Continuous Improvement
Create the markets of tomorrow

Create the markets of tomorrow

Radical innovations do not simply improve upon the existing; they transform the market by offering radically new applications. What approach can you adopt to imagine such disruptions?
227a – Synopsis (8p.) Growth
Successfully conduct your Lean Management approach

Successfully conduct your Lean Management approach

Adopting a Lean Management approach bestows a major competitive edge to some companies… and brings disillusionment to other ones! What are the key drivers to instill the Lean approach successfully?
227b – Synopsis (8p.) Continuous Improvement
Innovate through experimentation

Innovate through experimentation

Experimentation is a powerful innovation accelerator which, thanks to the digital revolution, is much more accessible than before. Yet it remains under-utilized. How can you prompt people to acquire the reflex to experiment with their ideas?
219b – Synopsis (8p.) Experimentation
From ideas to action

From ideas to action

In every business organization, hundreds of ideas are generated every day, ranging from creative solutions to everyday problems to revolutionary new products and services. What if innovation were principally a question of personal discipline?
213a – Synopsis (8p.) Innovation Strategy
Cultivate your creative potential

Cultivate your creative potential

"Agile" companies need inventive leaders and employees. However, one needs not possess an innate gift for creativity to be an innovator. How can we evolve our mindset to develop our creative capabilities?
208b – Synopsis (8p.) Creativity
Stimulate creativity in the field

Stimulate creativity in the field

How to stimulate the creativity of your employees? In addition to establishing sophisticated systems to collect ideas, companies would do well to adapt management practices accordingly.
176a – Synopsis (8p.) Creativity
Reconnecting with simplicity

Reconnecting with simplicity

Complexity is inherent to the way organizations operate. But while part of this complexity is inevitable, there also exists a superfluous part, which stifles initiative and prompts teams to disengage. How can we control its excesses to reconnect with simplicity?
344a – Synopsis (8 p.) Operational Performance
Three tips to approach dilemmas with creativity

Three tips to approach dilemmas with creativity

When faced with a dilemma, seek to reconcile rather than to pick a side.
339b – A look at the news (2 p.) Decision Making
Selling your innovative ideas

Selling your innovative ideas

Any innovative project owner faces a paradox: the novelty nature of his/her idea is precisely what gives it value; yet, it is also what generates reluctance. How can you release these brakes to get your innovative ideas across better?
287b – Synopsis (8p.) Persuasion
Get back into the habit of asking questions

Get back into the habit of asking questions

Business leaders are rarely presented as people who question themselves. And yet, a manager needs to know how to question as well as to assert; but this ability seems to have been somewhat lost. How can we find it again?
286b – Synopsis (8p.) Open-mindedness
Refreshing competences continuously

Refreshing competences continuously

The rise in employee competence represents a major competitive challenge for companies. How can you rethink training to reinforce the acquisition of competences essential to tomorrow’s world?
283b – Synopsis (8p.) Learning and Development