Marc De Pape

CATEGORY: Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: Climate Tech, Founders, Private Equity

Connecting Purpose with Profitability

The idea of sustainability is a two-fold goal for climate-conscious businesses that have made addressing our climate crisis their mission. Because no matter how noble it is to develop an environmentally sustainable product or solution, if a company cannot find its footing and sustain operations, it will never achieve the impact it is striving for.

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CATEGORY: Growth Mapping / TAG: AI, Growth Strategy, Product Innovation

Whitepaper: Growth Mapping for Gen AI product

In this whitepaper, Marc De Pape sought an interesting company to demonstrate the Growth Mapping process.

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CATEGORY: Growth Mapping / TAG: AI, Growth Strategy, Product Innovation

Growth Mapping: A look behind the curtain

Trying to determine where to invest? Looking to drive top-line revenue? Can’t focus on what opportunities to pursue? Growth Mapping is an approach that clarifies unidentified or unrealized opportunities.

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CATEGORY: Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: AI, Continuous innovation, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Growth Strategy

Putting windows on the AI Black Box

Artificial intelligence can do amazing things, but in many cases, we have no idea how those systems make their decisions. The lack of visibility, transparency and usability inherent to foundational AI technologies is often attributed to the nature of the AI “black box” — or how models can only be evaluated by their outputs.

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CATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: AI, Experience Design

AI Feedback Loops

If we want AI systems that get better over time and truly fulfill their potential, they will have to be implemented in a way that allows for new divergent paths and course correction. Otherwise, we’ll find ourselves running in loops.

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CATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: Corporate Teams, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Founders

Putting humanity into automation

Generative AI products GPT-4 and ChatGPT are clearly groundbreaking innovations. But can they generate transformative new ideas? New products, services, and businesses will certainly be built using AI — potentially with greater speed and efficiency than ever before. But don’t confuse the novelty of seemingly cogent outputs from language models with meaningful results — or valuable outcomes. 

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