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How Toxic Leadership May Be Killing Your Business (And Your Career)

December 31, 2015 by Olivier Blanchard - 3 Comments

I have been wondering for some time now why businesses that look great on paper, businesses that are well positioned to continue to thrive for the foreseeable future, fail.Before I go on, understand that I don't have any data to present. There's no white paper coming. I haven't spent the last twenty ...

Stop calling it the “Sharing Economy.” That isn’t what it is.

July 29, 2015 by Olivier Blanchard - 160 Comments

Filed under: Opinion."Disruption" isn't always what you think it is.It's known under a number of names: The Sharing Economy. The Collaborative Economy. The Gig Economy. Because of its "fresh" and "disruptive" model, undeniable financial incentives in the middle of a global economic recession, ...

A Field Guide for Digital Program Managers

May 7, 2015 by Olivier Blanchard - 3 Comments

A few years ago, Que (a division of Pearson Publishing) reached out to me about writing a book on Social Media ROI (Return On Investment). Early on in the project, it became clear to me that the book needed to be about more than ROI. Before we could even talk about measuring anything, the con ...

How To Sidestep A Statewide Boycott: 5 Tips For Indiana Businesses

March 29, 2015 by Olivier Blanchard - 1 Comment

What just happened in Indiana?If you haven't heard what happened in Indiana this past week, here is a brief recap: a "religious freedom" bill that allows businesses to refuse service to customers for "religious" reasons was signed into law by Indiana governor Mike Pence. The s ...

Curse Of The Business Cyclist

March 5, 2015 by Olivier Blanchard - 2 Comments

The accidental outcastIt isn't always easy being a cyclist in a business universe of golfers.Save perhaps for my first job as a military officer, every company I have worked with and for during my career has been exclusively geared towards favoring adepts of the club, of the nine iron, of ...

IBM Just Made Cognitive Computing And Advanced Analytics Accessible To Everyone.

December 10, 2014 by Olivier Blanchard - 3 Comments

There's so much stuff going on and so much information about a million different news items being shared all day long that sometimes, big changes in the world don't necessarily make headline news. As you know, I've been spending a little more time recently digging into the world of innovation, par ...

The CMO and the Cloud – Part 8: lessons from modern urban planning

December 2, 2014 by Olivier Blanchard - No Comments

I wrestled with the idea of starting a new series in parallel to The CMO and the Cloud called The Entrepreneur and the Cloud, but in the interest of keeping our conversation about the cloud's impact on business (and our lives and... well... everything) nice and streamlined, I opted instead to just i ...

Change With Purpose – Part 2: the opportunity engine

November 17, 2014 by Olivier Blanchard - 1 Comment

I just got back from Dassault Systemes'#3DXforum in Las Vegas, where I spent the better part of a week getting acquainted with some of the world's most advanced innovation acceleration tools and many of the brilliant minds behind them, and since my mind is still abuzz with a thousand ...

Change with purpose – Part 1: inevitable innovation

November 12, 2014 by Olivier Blanchard - 6 Comments

At 8am on a beautiful November morning, I was sitting in the Cosmopolitan's Chelsea auditorium in Las Vegas, wondering how in the world I was going to write about some of the bold moves that Dassault Systemes has been making these past few years, at least in a way that would make sense to an ...

Lessons From The Saddle: 10 Reasons Why Falling Short of your Goals May Not Always Be Such A Bad Thing

October 26, 2014 by Olivier Blanchard - No Comments

You might not know it from the posts I generally write here, but if you follow me on Facebook and Instagram, you know that I am a pretty avid cyclist. My love for the bike has gone through many phases over the years, from riding old dusty beaters on country roads in France when I was� ...

How Toxic Leadership May Be Killing Your Business (And Your Career)

Stop calling it the “Sharing Economy.” That isn’t what it is.

A Field Guide for Digital Program Managers

How To Sidestep A Statewide Boycott: 5 Tips For Indiana Businesses

Curse Of The Business Cyclist

IBM Just Made Cognitive Computing And Advanced Analytics Accessible To Everyone.

The CMO and the Cloud – Part 8: lessons from modern urban planning

Change With Purpose – Part 2: the opportunity engine

Change with purpose – Part 1: inevitable innovation

Lessons From The Saddle: 10 Reasons Why Falling Short of your Goals May Not Always Be Such A Bad Thing

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