How does it feel to become a published author?
A light share for a change on one of the rare light-hearted, fun moments of 2020.
The Invincible Company book was released just over six months ago in the midst of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of February, just a few weeks before the release, Alex Osterwalder, Alan Smith and myself were all in London at the same time for the first Building Invincible Companies masterclass. It turned out to be the last in-person masterclass of 2020 and the only time we would be in the same room in 2020. We didn’t know at the time what that crazy year had in store for the world.
At the end of each training day we had planned to record a few videos to support the upcoming book launch.
All went well until Alex went off-script at the end of a long day and asked me a question that almost made me choke:
How does it feel to become a published author?
Here’s what I finally managed to answer…
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In this blogpost you can find the links to:
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From the trenches of strategy and innovation, I brought back the material for a few more blogposts and articles that all aim to share learnings that can be useful to others.
In this blogpost you can find the links to:
14 posts for the Strategyzer blog or my personal blog,
An article for Raiffeisen INSIDE, Raiffeisen Bank International magazine, on how “culture enables innovation”,
A StratChat webinar on “Developing an Innovation Ecosystem from Scratch with Sergey Zverev from MSD”.
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In this post I explain the three core elements required to build an innovation ecosystem: explore portfolio + innovation programs + exploration culture.
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In this article I show how leaders can align the various stakeholders of their innovation ecosystem and bring clarity on their priorities and the boundaries of their exploration with explicit Explore Guidance.
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In this post you can find the links to:
12 posts for the Strategyzer blog (that I update regularly on my personal blog),
A white paper: “Chasing European Unicorns” by AmCham, that I contributed to,
The Invincible Company webpage, the book I co-authored and that was released in April 2020.
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1. Exploration is fundamentally different from exploitation,
2. There are different types of innovation: efficiency, sustaining and transformative,
3. To achieve more transformative innovation, you need to bring more volume into your innovation portfolio.
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Provide better innovation guidance
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Frederic Etiemble
Executive Advisor on Strategy & Innovation. Co-author of The Invincible Company.