Guillaume Villon de Benveniste, Auteur à The Innovation and Strategy Blog

Disrupt from inside out, a discussion with Linda Yates, CEO of Mach49

September 22, 2015January 11, 2017

Innovation and organic growth are the two biggest challenges facing most large companies today. The way out? Disrupt from inside out! Despite tremendous assets and talented teams, many of the G1000 find it hard to help their new ventures reach the escape velocity required to disrupt existing markets and create new ones. Conventional wisdom says that large companies don’t have what it takes to meet…

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Dave’s take on developing innovation in global 1000 fortune companies

August 11, 2015January 11, 2017

Innovating in large companies has always been difficult. Senior leaders flock to innovation, but they have to meet their quarterly goals in established business operations. So how can large companies that get their resources from existing and established lines of business, with a proven profitability rate, find the resources to nurture innovation internally and pursue it with the same consistency and rigor? For a…

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Which innovation practice will work best for you?

July 14, 2015January 11, 2017

This is the question that Dave Blakely and I covered in a recent discussion. Dave mentioned that there are four important and overlapping perspectives on innovation in the Silicon Valley: open innovation disruptive innovation design thinking The lean startup I/ Introducing Dave Blakely Dave Blakely helps mach49’s clients build businesses at the intersection of emerging technologies, business opportunities, and customer needs. He…

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Innovations in healthcare : a discussion with Merv Turner (3/3)

March 10, 2015April 13, 2019

What are the transformational innovations that will affect the healthcare industry by 2020? This is a question that Merv and I discussed in a recent conversation. I/ Innovations in Alzeihmer’s Disease (AD) Merv mentioned Alzheimer’s Disease as an area where there is the potential for a binary outcome by 2020. A number of pharma companies – Merck; Lilly/Astra Zeneca; Biogen Idec/Esai; Roche; Novartis –…

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Innovations in healthcare : a discussion with Merv Turner (2/3)

February 3, 2015April 13, 2019

What are the critical innovations in healthcare? How are they changing the relationship between patients and caregivers ? What are the forthcoming developments in healthcare? These are some of the topics I talked about with Merv, an advisor for Bay City Capital in San Francisco and Merck’s former Chief Strategy Officer. I/ Measuring outcomes In clinical development studies, we are accustomed to the gold…

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Innovations in healthcare : a discussion with Merv Turner (1/3)

January 20, 2015April 13, 2019

I recently had the opportunity to discuss developments in healthcare with Mervyn Turner, Merck’s former Chief Strategy Officer. Some of the topics we covered include : what were the most remarkable developments in healthcare, looking back over the last 5 to 10 years ? How have these developments changed the patient experience ? How have they changed the physicians’s practice ? How have they changed healthcare companies ?…

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« 3D technology improves our client’s value chain », says Bruno Delahaye of Dassault Systèmes – 2/2

January 15, 2015January 11, 2017

In what ways can 3D imaging technology maximize a firm’s competitive advantage ? This is a question that Bruno Delahaye, Julie Roger-Carel and myself discussed in a recent conversation. During our first discussion we talked about how 3D technology can improve sourcing of input materials and product design. In a follow-up discussion, we talked about how 3D technology improves manufacturing, marketing and sales. I/ DS…

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« 3D technology improves our client’s value chain », says Bruno Delahaye, VP Channel Marketing Value Solutions at Dassault Systèmes

December 23, 2014January 11, 2017

How to turn 3D imaging into a competitive advantage ? This question suggests a broader one : what’s the relationship, if any, between 3D technology and value chain optimization ? These are some of the questions that came to my mind when I talked with Bruno Delahaye of Dassault Systems, following an introduction by Julie Roger-Carel of Bouygues Telecom. I/ Introducing Bruno Delahaye Bruno joined DASSAULT SYSTEMES…

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« Why innovate? » A discussion with Vincent Lebunetel, Vice-President of Corporate Innovation at CWT

October 21, 2014January 11, 2017

Why is the Travel industry undergoing major changes? What are the innovations that are disrupting incumbent players in the Travel industry? How are digital technologies transforming the Travel industry? These are some of the questions that came to my mind when I met with Vincent Lebunetel, Vice-President Corporate Innovation at Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT). I/ Introduction of Vincent Lebunetel (@vLebunetel) As Vice President of…

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Making innovation happen means smuggling – (3/3)

October 9, 2014January 11, 2017

See part 1 here and part 2 here. How Great Ideas are Assimilated into Large Corporations For all of you entrepreneurs out there who want to know why it takes so damned long to get decisions made, well here it is: you are most likely to start your corporate incursion in the company of a conformist. Conformists are polite, and will tell you how…