When Difficult Leaders Change the World: Making Neurodivergent Leadership Sustainable
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
Brilliant yet difficult leaders have long driven some of the world’s most transformative innovations. Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh...
Strategic Insights: Taking Over a Start-Up vs. an Established SME
By Fernanda Arreola, Damien Guermonprez, and Renaud Redien-Collot
The skills required to successfully lead one type of enterprise may not fully apply or be relevant...
Innovating Your Team’s Conditions for Success: Use the 3 Cs!
By Fernanda Arreola and Dan Hammond
As leadership roles move from merely directorial to creating great conditions for team success, leaders should employ the three...
You Must Innovate Your Governance too! The Risk for Startups and SMEs
By Fernanda Arreola
While startups and SMEs are often lauded for their agility and innovation, one critical dimension is frequently overlooked: governance. This article explores...
Extreme Users: Understanding Their Role in Innovation and DesignÂ
By Fernanda Arreola
Extreme users are individuals whose needs, behaviors, and experiences diverge significantly from the mainstream user base. They may include early adopters, power...
Unveiling Stealth Innovation: The Secret Weapon of Companies that Want to Hide Their RevolutionsÂ
By Fernanda ArreolaÂ
One of the most frequent questions I receive is if an innovative idea should be kept secret or not? My answer is...
Let’s Rock and Roll: How to Innovate Sustainably in Bureaucratic Organizations?
By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Pezziardi
Bureaucracy is important. It makes our life comfortable, because it guarantees that rules will be in place to ensure...
It’s Too Late to Become a Technological Leader. Just Become a Shoveller!
By Fernanda Arreola and Robert Pickering
Taking as an example the cloud industry, we help break down the different types of services and innovations that...
What if We Told you that Women in Sports have Broken the Glass Ceiling?
By Bernard Goudard and Fernanda Arreola
We have often wondered if there are examples of businesses that have overcome the social challenge of providing equal...
Unsexy? Think About it Again! Delivering on Startup Potential Through Operations
By Fernanda Arreola and Dr. Michel Philippart
Operational excellence is critical to entrepreneurial success, but it is too often ignored by aspiring entrepreneurs. In this article,...
How to Change the World with Low-Tech Innovation?
By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems
Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems explore how small, accessible changes can lead to significant impacts, while providing a practical...
Smells Like Patchouli!
By Fernanda Arreola and Johann VITREY-TARDIF
Innovation is essential, yet not always easy. This article, based on lessons from the perfume industry, discusses how to...
You Did Not Fail! You Are Just Rebounding!
By Olimpia Modorcea and Fernanda Arreola
Entrepreneurs make economies turn and prosper. They create a large proportion of new jobs, take economies out of recessions,...
Creating Inclusive Innovation Workplaces: Insights from the Playground
By Fernanda Arreola
In the pursuit of engaging employees in innovative endeavours, a pressing need emerges for firms to establish new, inclusive settings known as...
Artificial Intelligence: Will You Be a Saboteur or an Impressionist?
By Gregory Unruh and Fernanda Arreola
The rapid adoption of AI in today's organisations leaves workers with two choices: waste their energy in a futile...
Services have Become Invisible to Customers in B2B and B2C
By Fernanda Arreola and Alfonso Castañeda
For customers in B2B and B2C environments, the true providers of the services they consume have become invisible. In this...
Advantages, Limits And Strategies For Online And Offline Collaboration
By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems
During the period of confinement, organizations around the world were forced to develop new tactics and strategies for orchestrating...
What if Your Business Model Was to Blame for Your Lack of Innovativeness!
By Fernanda Arreola, Raphaël Maucuer and Adrien Terlier
Innovation is a crucial driver of success for organizations. It is a tool for nurturing a competitive...
David vs Goliath… or a Story of How Start-ups Can Choose a Winning Strategy
By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems
A start-up company entering any given industry may well find itself in competition with incumbent businesses that have powerful...