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...
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...
Unveiling Stealth Innovation: The Secret Weapon of Companies that Want to Hide Their Revolutions
By Fernanda Arreola
One of the most frequent questions I receive is if an innovative idea should be kept secret or not? My answer is...
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...
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...
Extreme Users: Understanding Their Role in Innovation and Design
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...
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...
The Three Questions That CERN Is Trying to Answer and Their Impact on Innovation
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory C. Unruh
CERN’s three fundamental questions inspire innovation by fostering principles thinking, system cycles, and strategic foresight, enabling entrepreneurs to navigate...
Do People Trust AI to Provide Relevant Information? Insights from the Mass Transportation Industry
By Fernanda Arreola and Jean-Christophe Lassalle
In order to gain acceptance among the general public, AI systems need not only to deliver correct information, but...
A New Generation of Entrepreneurs: Moving with Purpose
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
Have you ever noticed how successful entrepreneurs seem to be driven by a kind of inspiration? But where do...
Digital Communication and Public Concern During Natural Disasters.
By Federico Platania, Celina Toscano, and Fernanda Arreola
While it makes sense that governments should use social media for effective communication with the public in...
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...
Addiction Has No Boundaries: We Must Start Talking About It
By Fernanda Arreola, Nora Guessoum, and Elizabeth Walker
Addiction often hides in plain sight, crossing social, professional, and cultural boundaries with ease. In this article,...
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...
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...
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...
How Do 200-Year-Old Institutions Innovate? The Example of Business Schools
By Fernanda Arreola and Dr. Gregory C. Unruh
When we think of innovation, our minds often jump to startups or young tech firms. But what...
Why AI Can’t Say “I Don’t Know”: Understanding the Illusion of Omni-knowledge in Large...
By Fernanda Arreola and David Jaidan
Skillful orators know that, to convince their audience, it can pay to deliver their message with a tone of...
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...
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,...
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...
The Rise of the Hospitality Manager
Happy, comfortable and productive employees and the new generation of office managers making it happen
By Fernanda Arreola and Gregory Unruh
New demands are emerging in...
Strategic Responses To Neo-Populism
By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz, and Fernanda Arreola
The rise of Neo-populism presents risks to multi-national corporations in Western markets. The authors outline practical strategies corporations...
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...
When AI Wants to Teach You How to Become an Entrepreneur
By Fernanda Arreola and Jean Giraux
As generative AI makes entrepreneurial knowledge widely accessible, competitive advantage increasingly depends on human judgment, contextual thinking, and strategic...
