{"id":42651,"date":"2009-03-12T06:10:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T05:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visionarymarketing.wordpress.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2023-05-26T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:55:08","slug":"innovating-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/en\/2009\/03\/12\/innovating-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"When innovating wrong questions are the right questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When innovating wrong questions are the right questions. On March 4th, 2009, I was able to meet and have breakfast with, at last, and after a few missed opportunities, \u00a0Alain Thys in Paris. Alain is one of the partners of <a title=\"Futurelab - Marketing &amp; Innovation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelab.net\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">futurelab<\/a>, a consultancy based in Belgium (of which he originates) together with fellow Stefan Kolle. I can&#8217;t actually remember when, or how we came across each other, but it is bound to be on the web, and that&#8217;s probably how we ended up cooperating on the <a title=\"futurela - Marketing &amp; Innovation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelab.net\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Futurelab blog<\/a> by the way.<\/p>\n<h2>When innovating the wrong questions turn out to be the right questions<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What I know though is that Alain is the author of one of the <a title=\"on Marketing accountability\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/alainthys\/reflecting-on-marketing-accountability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most important Marketing presentations<\/a> that I have seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/alainthys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slideshare.net<\/a>, which I keep using over and over again, and is entitled <strong>marketing accountability<\/strong> (you will find the direct access to the presentation at the end of this article). Alain Thys&#8217;s biography is also very interesting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51305\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51305 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-13-at-11.38.22-e1584095977466.jpg\" alt=\"Marketing accountability - questions for innovating\" width=\"519\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When innovating, one often has to ask the wrong\/right questions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He describes himself as a &#8220;shopkeeper&#8221;. He has had extensive experience in European advertising and marketing at companies like Mexx and Reebok. He was in charge of marketing at Reebok Belgium for a while, when it was decided to merge it into the Dutch arm of the company, at the beginning of the 1990s, and that&#8217;s when the Internet arrived. It is also when Alain discovered these &#8220;funny computers&#8221; and the things that we could do with them. A 3-year stint in the Netherlands at the head of the Reebok marketing unit ended up in a re-org and a sabbatical in Mexico (lucky him!).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the beginning of the year 2000, he then decided to go into start-up mode and work for a joint-venture in which AOL and LVMH (Louis Vuitton) were involved. Their new\u00a0plan was a groundbreaking online idea for the travel industry. This was &#8220;way ahead of what was done in those days with regard to online travel&#8221;. In fact, it was a bit like <em>\u00e0 la carte <\/em>holiday packages, what is commonly described nowadays as dynamic packaging (although very little of it is still to be seen in the field, which means that it&#8217;s still ahead of its time).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Innovating questions: bubble or not bubble?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The usual cash-burning story about 2000 bubble start-ups is unfortunately repeated in this venture of Alain&#8217;s: a $130 cost per customer was leading unfortunately to a meagre revenue of $16, hardly enough to generate profit. Vision doesn&#8217;t always lead to profitability, but there is one thing about visionary people, is that they shall never be deterred. And that&#8217;s exactly why Alain decided to move on to the next idea. So he started a new incubator for e-payment in Ireland, related to mobile payment. He admitted to having a lot of fun creating the new start-up, and he did this for a couple of years before joining a media group in Belgium in 2004-5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This media group, itself a media pioneer in Belgium, led Alain Thys to focus on &#8220;creating new things and generating new profits&#8221;. He admitted to &#8220;not being very knowledgeable about the Internet world&#8221; which actually led him to ask &#8220;the wrong questions, which turned out to be the right questions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alain was lucky enough to actually see the <a href=\"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/2006\/08\/the-internet-time-machine\/\">Internet at its inception,<\/a> he grew with it (not exactly generation Y though). And he learned as he was going along. As a matter of fact, and to be honest with him and yourself, everybody&#8217;s learning as we are going along in this market (a case of <em>the blind leading the blind<\/em> I guess).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He then created futurelab in 2005, and Stefan joined him in this transition period. Futurelab is a consultancy geared towards &#8220;generating new profits out of marketing and innovation&#8221;. This consultancy is actually working very much based on word-of-mouth and is expanding across Europe, doing little or no cold-calling or direct marketing. But it is taking WOM to the next level with the help of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their work is mostly based on marketing strategy consulting, and their aim is to &#8220;generate profit through innovation and customer-centricity&#8221;. Future lab&#8217;s objective is actually to &#8220;deliver on that promise of value to the customer&#8221;.\u00a0He described innovation as being &#8220;doing something differently, and that you haven&#8217;t done before.&#8221; But he also has profitability in mind.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alain Thys declares that &#8220;in 80% of current projects, we see marketing &amp; innovation fail in that respect&#8221;. When asked about the reasons why such an obvious metric is actually not taken into account, which seems zanyish and at the same time is happening on a daily basis, he answers thus:<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>it is either that people forget about the bottom line altogether. However, there must be some sort of payback on innovation,<\/li>\n<li>the second reason why innovation fails is that most innovators &#8220;forget about what it means to the customer.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, Alain adds, very often, &#8220;what is needed is a different perspective, and this is when consultants become really useful&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of Futurelab&#8217;s business is done through word-of-mouth using their Internet website and <a title=\"Futurelab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelab.net\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog, an incredibly comprehensive digest of the most authoritative Internet and blog writers about innovation<\/a>, which can be found online. The blog is available at <a title=\"Futurelab - Marketing &amp; Innovation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelab.net\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/blog.futurelab.net<\/a> and shouldn&#8217;t be missed. I would also recommend Alain&#8217;s set of slides\u00a0which are available and downloadable in creative Commons format from sideshare.net.<\/p>\n<p>[slideshare id=97565&amp;doc=reflecting-on-marketing-accountability4592]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When innovating wrong questions are the right questions. On March 4th, 2009, I was able to meet and have breakfast with, at last, and after a few missed opportunities, \u00a0Alain Thys in Paris. 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