EXPLORING AND BUILDING TOMORROW'S ORGANIZATIONS
Innovation Waves Associated With Invention and Discovery
This article is the first of a new series of 5 articles about Innovation Waves. It introduces the topic with Innovation Waves Associated With Invention and Discovery. Looking at innovation from a historical perspective reveals that the long series of...
Innovation Cycle and Risk Management
In the previous articles of this series, we wrote about Internal Knowledge, Time Horizon, Frontier Sciences, Academic Knowledge, Learning and Experience, and Parallel Worlds. Here we deal with Risk Management. Innovation as a risky venture Innovation is...
Interview with Albert Meige, CEO and Enchanter @ Presans
Albert Meige is the CEO of Presans and the Director of the EMBA Telecom School of Management. His entrepreneurial experience in the field of industrial innovation led him to formulate a bold vision of the evolution of the organization of work....
Knowledge for Innovation: Parallel Worlds
In the previous articles of this series, we wrote about Internal Knowledge, Time Horizon, Frontier Sciences, Academic Knowledge and Learning and Experience. Here we deal with Parallel Worlds. Parallel worlds, shown in the figure as a box between learning...
Knowledge for Innovation: Learning and Experience
In the previous articles of this series, we wrote about Internal Knowledge, Time Horizon, and Frontier Sciences and Academic Knowledge. Here we deal with Learning and Experience. Learning and experience, the accumulated knowledge carried by an individual,...
Knowledge for Innovation: Academic Knowledge
In the previous articles of this series, we wrote about Internal Knowledge, Time Horizon, and Frontier Sciences. Here we deal with Academic Knowledge. The natural fate of frontier knowledge is to rapidly pass to the most advanced laboratories and academic...
Knowledge for Innovation: Frontier Sciences
Knowledge is the fuel of innovation. In the previous articles we wrote about internal knowledge and about time horizon. This article is about Frontier Sciences. Further away from the daily activity of most companies, we have located the new knowledge...
EMBA Masterclass: Stefan Lindegaard
Last December, Stefan Lindegaard was back in Paris to run a Masterclass hosted by the EMBA of the Telecom Ecole de Management. The topic: Are you ready to transform, or die? Stefan performed a stylistic combination of smoothness and take-no-prisoners...
Knowledge for Innovation: Trends and Environment for Innovation Deployment Horizon
Knowledge is at the source of the rationale for the key decisions that shape and drive an innovation project. Relevant knowledge can come from a wide variety of sources. Winners at the innovation game are the best at rapidly seeking, filtering, digesting,...
Innovation risk management as a gambling game
“Fail often, but fail fast and cheap” is a well known mantra, often repeated by innovation gurus. However this piece of wisdom is not so easily understood by enthusiastic would-be inventors and innovators. This text attempts to illustrate this somewhat...
Knowledge for Innovation: Internal Knowledge Flow
Knowledge is at the source of the rationale for the key decisions that shape and drive an innovation project. Relevant knowledge can come from a wide variety of sources. Winners at the innovation game are the best at rapidly seeking, filtering, digesting,...
Presans Outlook 2017: Our Vision of the Future
This is how we upped our game at Presans in 2016 1. We reinforced our defining human asset: the Presans Fellows group. 2. We increased and deepened our expert pool by launching Sofia 3. 3. We developed our business by partnering with ADL on breakthrough innovation....
Technological Museums Quest | 1. Getting started
Visiting the past of the future First off, here's how Peter Thiel explains the concept of future: What makes the future distinctive and important isn’t that it hasn’t happened yet, but rather that it will be a time when the world looks...