Dec 16, 2020Member-onlyRisk, Metrics, and Venture Capital: 10 key takeaways on what your innovation process should look likeOn December 8th I had the amazing opportunity to join the group that is at the avant-garde of corporate innovation. I was invited to share my perspective on Venture Building and Portfolio Management at the Innov8rs Connect Conference from my experience as a startup founder. I remember exactly one year…Corporate Innovation4 min readCorporate Innovation4 min read
Oct 29, 2020Member-onlyQuibi: A $2 Billion Lesson From Hollywood to Corporate InnovatorsIn the last couple of weeks, the main buzz going around the tech and innovation scene was the shutdown of Hollywood’s hyped entertainment/tech company Quibi. …Corporate Innovation12 min readCorporate Innovation12 min read
Jul 23, 2020Member-onlyHow to Make Lean Work in Large Corporations — Implementing a System MindsetIn a previous article, I did a deep dive into how Lean succeeds in great start-ups and how this success does not always translate in large corporations. Often, these corporations fail because they’re matching Apples to Peaches. The Lean methodology is driven by internet-age thinking models. It is fluid, fast…Corporate Innovation7 min readCorporate Innovation7 min read
Jul 15, 2020Member-onlyHow to Avoid Failing With Lean — It’s a System Mindset ProblemWhy do large companies struggle with Lean Startup? The answer to this question can often depend on where you are considering the problem from. Many experts have tried to address the question already. Some, very well, like Steve Blank in his recent interview with the MIT Sloan Review, others, not…Corporate Innovation6 min readCorporate Innovation6 min read
Jun 25, 2020Member-onlyHow the Dot-Com bubble became the rise of Lean (and what corporate innovators can learn from it)Unless you’re either an economist, work in the financial markets, or is a modern economy history buff, chances are you’ll have a short-term memory for these kinds of things, but working for many years as a trader and portfolio manager, most of the economic crisis that happened during my adult…Corporate Innovation6 min readCorporate Innovation6 min read
May 28, 2020Member-only5 Easy Metrics to Improve Your R&D Innovation Performance and Increase Short Term ROIIt has been for too long that corporate innovators have been losing their sleep… well, better yet, their budgets, to other business units in board meetings, simply because innovation “doesn’t generate short-term revenue”, or “is only accounted as a cost and liability”, and my favorite one: “is more of an…Corporate Innovation4 min readCorporate Innovation4 min read
Mar 30, 2020Member-onlyInnovation in Times of Crisis: Why the Best Time to Grow is NowThere’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has hit individuals and businesses hard all over the world. Reports indicate that in the US, more than 3 million people have filed for unemployment already this year and in their best estimates, experts predict that the economic turmoil of the pandemic will…Innovation7 min readInnovation7 min read
Jan 26, 2020Member-onlyAre we there yet? — Why corporations are taking so long to actually innovate?How far are we from having true ambidextrous corporations as the norm? When is corporate innovation, in the 2020 sense of it, finally going to become mainstream? Companies that have the ability to both focus on their core business and yet, still look forward and truly invest in new, disruptive…Corporate Innovation8 min readCorporate Innovation8 min read
