Forward Partners
My services: consulting, coaching and training in innovation for large companies.
Visit forward-partners.comHow I work
Engineer by training, entrepreneur by choice. Here is what I bring to the teams I work with.
- I make things simple. I turn a complicated subject into a few clear steps a team can act on.
- I ask more than I tell. The right questions help a team see its own project clearly and decide for itself.
- I test before I build. I look for the assumption that could sink an idea, and the quickest honest way to check it with customers.
- I get things moving. I give a new project a structure fast, then push it into action, one experiment at a time.
- I build with my own hands. A book, an event, software I use every day: I still make things myself.
What I do
From working with teams to bringing people together.
Lead Innovation Day
A place for innovation practitioners to share what they have learned. Conversations, talks and experience from the field.
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Passez en mode startup
Six steps to start your business.
My book puts the startup approach into practice: explore a problem, test your assumptions and develop your idea with customers.
Published by Eyrolles · In French
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Writing
Notes on innovation, entrepreneurship and technology, since 2002.
Start with a guide
- Customer interviews
How to interview customers before you build: a field guide, templates, where to find people to talk to, and how to get from what they say to what they do.
- MVP and experiments
Which minimum viable product to build at each stage, real MVPs from a paper prototype to the first iPhone, and how to run experiments with customers.
- The intrapreneur
Intrapreneurs build new ventures inside a company: their rules, what stands in their way, the sponsors who back them and the leaders who let them work.
Oser, puis doser
My podcast about intrapreneurs.
In each episode, someone who launched a new business inside a large company or a public service tells how they did it, from Bouygues Immobilier to Pôle emploi.
In French · 9 episodes, March to July 2021
Also on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
