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Practical insights from the front lines of corporate innovation. Lessons learned from building ventures, running programs, and helping organizations move faster.
In eight weeks, we built four fundamentally different prototypes for an industrial AI product. Three got thrown away. None took more than 48 hours to build. Here's what that does to venture building.
We built a beautiful dashboard for industrial AI. Operators loved the data. Then we threw it away and built a chat interface instead. Here's what four prototypes taught us about where AI actually belongs in plant operations.
Chinese markets move at a pace most European corporates can't comprehend. What 13 years taught me about speed, customer proximity, and the 'good enough' philosophy, and how Western companies can adapt without copying.
Every venture runs on untested beliefs. Most teams never write them down. Here's why assumption management is the discipline you're missing — and the tool I built to fix it.
After running 80+ hackathons and 15 open innovation programs, I've seen the same failure patterns repeat. Here's how to avoid them.
Each innovation format solves a different problem. Here's how to match the format to your actual needs — with a comprehensive comparison table and decision matrix.
Most customer interviews generate polite lies. Here's how to structure conversations that surface the truth.