Mike Hadjadj, a retail and SaaS expert, has just published a book (in French) called SaaSpocalypse. Every year, he supports two to three hundred start-ups as a mentor, advisor and investor, mostly in the retail sector. In his own words,…
What if the future of work were about giving people a rela benefit for getting back to the office? On Thursday 24 September, the first International Workplace Summit (IWS 2026) took place at the Campus Cyber in La Défense, Paris.…
It’s back to school and back to the blog too for the 31st time since 1995, and today’s topic will be AI and Creativity. The idea is to deal with the topic of artificial intelligence, not from a technical perspective,…
While the media keep flogging the spectre of AI replacing white-collar workers, a far more discreet factor is quietly undermining the employability of young graduates. The real culprit? Their smartphones. As agentic AI grows in power and the job market…
After years spent on producing creative content the hard way, here comes the AI Creative Studio, to boost innovation and creativity. Some creatives and marketers are impressed, some not. So, what will it come to eventually? Visionary Marketing attended a…
Agentic e-commerce is already reshaping how consumers discover and buy products online, yet it still accounts for barely 0.2% of total e-commerce traffic. BASE France is the French arm of Base.com, a Polish-born SaaS scale-up that has spent nearly two…
Hervé Kabla, with whom I co-authored several books, has just published a book on cybersecurity for SMEs. The CEO’s Cybersecurity Playbook tackles a subject that many small business leaders still prefer to ignore. Not out of bad faith, but out…
Alain Goudey is Associate Dean for Digital Innovation at Neoma Business School and co-author of a peer-reviewed study on GenAI in Higher Education. The survey focused on how students, faculty, and deans perceive the legitimacy of generative AI in French…
Shall AI kill marketing? Sounds like a hackneyed question, yet it’s on any marketer’s lips these days. Thomas Husson, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, covers the intersection of marketing, technology, and consumer behaviour from his base in…
One learns change management lessons in the field rather than in books. Some time ago, I delivered a keynote at Like Minds in Exeter. It was entitled “Confessions of an Intrapreneur.” It was made up of these anecdotes and tips,…
The conversation about rogue AI has never been louder. Barely a week passes without a fresh headline about autonomous systems behaving unexpectedly, AI models resisting shutdown, or tech executives warning of existential risk. What is striking about Peter McAllister is…
Finding European software alternatives to standard non European software is flavour of the month this side of the Altlantic. With geopolitical certainties dissolving faster than annual licence renewals, B2B firms are waking up to a question they had conveniently parked…
