by Jacques Knight | Oct 28, 2016 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
I’ve been receiving a lot of links from Albert recently. He’s been on the road quite a bit this month, making new connections and finding out about new startups along the way. Or maybe these subjects are just always on his radar. Let’s see what we...
by Albert Meige | Jul 21, 2016 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
When Apple launched the iTunes Music Store in 2003, it unknowingly created a textbook case of digital disruption. Initially designed to facilitate legal downloads in order to increase the demand for iPods, the platform has revolutionized the music industry by becoming...
by Albert Meige | Jul 14, 2016 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Frédéric Sutter has been the Digital Transformation Program Director of Airbus Group for about a year. Frédéric and I have crossed our paths several times in the past, most notably among which the CTO Senior Staff Meeting I had been invited to attend. But we hadn’t...
by Jacques Knight | Jul 2, 2016 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
It started in the late 1990s. Internet entrepreneurs were a new breed, low on the radar of these placid pre-9/11 years. Back in those days, the EU was self-confidently marching into a post-historical and post-heroic age. The tragic echoes of pre-market, pre-democratic...
by Jacques Knight | Apr 28, 2016 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
On April 11, 2016, the HEC Advanced Technology Group organized a roundtable on the topic of the digitalization of capital-intensive industries. 120 people attended this sold-out event, which took place in the now well-known halls of Remix Coworking, rue des Petites...
by Jacques Knight | Apr 20, 2016 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Can you tell us about you and your career, which spans the worlds of research and industry? Collaboration with industry has been central to all of my work as an applied researcher. I have found this to be interesting on a personal level. In all the institutions I have...