This week was inspiring with the opening of the LEGO House. An amazingly designed building that offers LEGO to test all its innovations directly to the customers. …

Over the last year the corporate incubator where I work has been redesigned and reorganized with the ambition to accelerate launch of new products in the market. During that period of changes, I let my supervisors know that I was open to take management responsibilities. …

There are a lot of books, website, blogs that talk about innovation management but only a few focus on the people development side. Usually we have tendency to focus on the holy grail recipe such as design thinking or business model design, however one of the key element is to…

Unlocking innovation in corporation is a key objective. However, due to lack of time and low acceptance of failure, dedicated creativity workshop have been designed for the corporate world and several methodologies have been suggested by consultants (i.e. Innovation Copilots). Let’s focus first on the creativity process. It allows anyone…

In this post I will try to elaborate around two big trends for corporate innovation: intrapreneurship and corporate hacking. On my opinion the difference between both concepts is that intrapreneurship is a top down effort defined from the head of strategy and multiplied to the different departments following a well…

Of course, I don’t see the future or don’t pretend to. I just know that I tend to change jobs every five years. …

When it comes to supporting a team in a project, there are mainly three styles of facilitation: Facilitative, Evaluative, and Transformative. Facilitative-Guide and supporter of the process and guide The facilitator structures a process to assist the parties in reaching consensus. When it comes to innovation, the facilitator asks questions…

My role is to support corporate innovation projects and I work together with several other project managers along the progress of the project. Corporate innovation projects or start-ups need different kind of support during their maturation. In a recent paper of the Harvard Business Review Thomas Ritter introduced 4 types…

Do you remember when the start-up founding team got its first millions euros and a bunch of advisors entered the workplace. This time to focus on value creation is crucial for the success and development of the company. Those time also affect the dynamic of the founding team. …