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Politics comes down into the company and shapes the product

Sixth episode of a ten-episode series on the weight of politics in the success of a product. The first three showed that no market-leading product escapes the envelope drawn by the state; the fourth pushed open the door of the room where that rule is written; the fifth showed that nobody gets in unless others have signed for them. This one crosses the threshold of the company, where it is decided which product will live, and who will go and defend it in that room.
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The value network lets a product exist… or not

Fifth episode of a ten-episode series on the weight of politics in the success of a product. The first four showed that a public rule opens or closes a market, and that it is written in rooms where the companies it governs have a seat. What remains is how you get in.
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Leading products write their own laws

Fourth episode of a ten-episode series on the weight of politics in the success of a product. A week in Madeira, a club nobody voted for, and a man who wrote a decision the state signed.
L'usine Fab 18 de TSMC dans le parc scientifique du sud de Taïwan, vue depuis la rue, avec ses tours de refroidissement sur le toit et des camions à l'entrée

Nvidia owes nothing to anyone, except the ground it is built on

Third episode of a ten-episode series on the weight of politics in the success of a product. The first two picked up the trace of the state, then put it to the test. What is left are today's champions, the ones that should owe nothing to anyone.
Le bâtiment de Solyndra à Fremont, en Californie, vu depuis l'autoroute, avec un panneau « for sale » posé sur la façade et l'enseigne de l'entreprise encore en place

When the state steps back, the risk lands on your balance sheet

Second episode of a ten-episode series on the weight of politics in the success of a product. The first showed the trace of a public decision behind six products. Whether that trace explains anything is another matter.
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Can a product become a market leader without a government’s help?

First episode of a ten-episode series on the weight of politics in the success of a product. We start with the most distant scale, the one made of governments, because it is the one you see least and the one that decides earliest.

Why you will fail to make AI pay off against your competitors

95% of AI projects return nothing. The cause is not the technology, but a value chain that stayed a line instead of becoming a loop.

You are no longer paying for a product, you are paying for a factory

A subscription no longer buys a finished product but access to a factory that keeps improving it. What Rolls-Royce and Tesla teach about the new model.

Your org chart makes nothing

Org chart and workflow do not say the same thing: one says who reports to whom, the other how value moves. What the factory floor teaches us.

From AI Experiments to Impact Factories: The Real Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

Artificial intelligence is not an end in itself: it is an accelerator, a tool at the service of a system tasked with accomplishing a...