Citrix Corporate Accelerator: From the closed incubator to the long-term horizon
The Citrix Corporate Accelerator is a good case study of how any innovation structure must learn to adapt to its environment – and from its mistakes as well. In a session based on his own experience as Managing Director of the Citrix Corporate Accelerator, John Mc Intyre shared how he went from a corporate accelerator […]
McDonald's digital innovation strategy: building the restaurant of the future as a startup
With 35,000 restaurants in 121 countries, McDonald’s is not a so much a F&B outlet, it’s a machine, an army of operational excellence. It’s also a network of franchisees, which makes innovation a bit harder, as you can’t really design a new service or product and just push it to the network. During the […]
Lufthansa innovation hub and the travel space: a "startup within the company"
During the Break conference in Bali, we listened to then interviewed Katrin Zimmermann, from the Lufthansa Innovation Hub. Their work as a “startup within the company” can be summarized as follows: Digital travel apps are valued at $88bn, vs $6bn for a big airline on average There’s no or little loyalty, so Lufthansa need to […]
China mobile stats for 2015 – Here comes the giant!
Here are a few useful digital statistics and trends from China, after we spent two days at the GMIC Beijing conference. The digital landscape is really amazing both by its sheer size – and there’s a lot of room for increase – and its specificity, which you can find more about in our other posts: […]
O2O: Why China leads the "Online to Offline" revolution
O2O has been one of the main buzzwords talked about during GMIC Beijing conference, the leading mobile event in China with 20,000 attendees and a platform for all the Chinese tech giants to announce their innovations. Some call it “our industry’s stupidest acronym” (Tech in Asia), other “the trillion dollar opportunity” (Techcrunch). If o2o as […]
Internet Plus: China's official strategy for the uberisation of the economy
Internet Plus has been one of the main buzzword at GMIC Beijing, the Chinese equivalent to the MWC Barcelona, a huge tech event dedicated to mobile industries. The foreign visitor I was can only be stunned by the omnipresence of this concept, which actually is China’s latest official plan to boost a decelerating economy through […]
This is Aadhaar: India’s 750 million biometric and online identity database and its future as an ecosystem of innovation
In just four years, Aadhaar, also known as India’s “Unique Identification Number”, has registered the identity of 750 million of its citizens, with both the said 12-digit number, and biometrics elements. You could compare this massive result to another social network, and startups are now looking at tapping this vast database. What is Aadhaar exactly? […]
A chat with NewsCred, the best funded startup from Bangladesh
NewsCred is typically this kind of « nugget » we find while travelling in emerging markets. We usually take a list of countries, try find out the best tech event there to meet people and get to understand how the startup scene and working. And then you have big, unsuspected discoveries like a startup from Bangladesh with […]
The state of India startup ecosystem: here comes the growth (and 10,000 startups)
To kickstart the NASSCOM Product Conclave Conference in Bangalore, Rajat Tandon, Director at NASSCOM and Sunil Rao, Country Head-Startup Ecosystem at Google India, gave an amazing overview of the state of the India startup ecosystem. Their report, dubbed « NASSCOM 10000 Startups Report » or « Startup Landscape 2014 », shows the growth of India as the 4th largest […]
El Mashrou3: when a Reality-TV show support entrepreneurship in the emerging markets
While in Dhaka, Bangladesh for Innovation Xtreme, we’ve met with Asim Haneef (LinkedIn, Twitter), a British TV producer and Director of Global Development for Bamyan Media. He helped in particular to launch and popularise “El Mashrou3”, a reality-TV show promoting entrepreneurship to a mass-market audience in Egypt, with successful developments in other emerging markets such […]
