EXPLORING AND BUILDING TOMORROW'S ORGANIZATIONS
Hero Question Quest | 1. Musil
"Who are your heroes?" — This is a question I never fail to ask in an interview. Some people like the question, some don't. Why do I always ask it? First of all, the hero question is always a meta-question. Beyond any list of names, the way in which we relate to this...
Knowledge and innovation: a tight interdependency
Any innovator knows from experience that knowledge is as important to him or her as mortar is to a mason. Knowledge is required at every step of the innovation process. Knowledge is the key resource in the generation of an innovative concept. We speak here...
Mega-trends in employment and work organization
In parallel to the third Industrial Revolution, the world of work and employment is changing rapidly. Birth of the enterprise: from a marketplace of skills to employment Blanche Segrestin and Armand Hatchuel give a very clear history of employment and of...
Toward the third Industrial Revolution: optimizing resources
The economist Adam Smith identified three key factors for economic growth: labor, capital, and resources. While the first and second Industrial Revolutions were mostly concerned with optimizing labor productivity and capital allocation, the third...
The Internet of Skills and Knowledge
This short chapter elaborates on works by Jeremy Rifkin and also Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers. They see our world entering a third Industrial Revolution. The first Industrial Revolution, which took place during the late-eighteenth and...
Innovation: integrate the best state of knowledge in the world – Marc Giget
Integrate the best state of knowledge in the world To innovate is to integrate the best state of knowledge into creative products and services with the aim of improving life in society and for individuals. These three components: the knowledge,...
News from the symbiotic transfer economy front
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 have, shall we?...
Raout Talks 2016: disruption across the spectrum
People like to celebrate the tradition they are a part of, even innovators. But they also like realtalk — especially innovators, the builders of new realities. The theme of the evening was disruption. You've heard of disruption, of course. You may even have read about...
Presans Raout 2016: go deep or go home
Friday October 7, PARIS — The urban halls of Remix Coworking once again rang with the clamor of the Presans Raout. Expectations had been set high by the previous edition of the Parisian industrial innovation event. Presans CEO Albert Meige managed once again to take...
How much multipotentiality does innovation need?
Multipotentiality has a strong sense and a weak sense. In the strong sense, it is the ability to perform in unrelated domains of activity. In the weak sense, it is the cultivation of interests pertaining to unrelated domains, even if this...
Ono-Dit-Biot & De Loisy channel Houellebecq @ Palais de Tokyo |Impressions
The elusive French writer Michel Houellebecq rarely appears in public, however sometimes his buddies will accept to come and share insights and anecdotes about the man. Enter Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, an interesting writer and journalist in his...
Intellectual investor Charles Gave sees disruption on the political horizon
A bit over a year ago, Charles Gave approvingly noted that the Polynesians knew the following important piece of anthropological wisdom relative to human multipotentiality: people are a mix of tree lovers and boat lovers. Tree lovers want to...
Interview with Philippe Perrier former Programs Director for the Rafale and Fellow at Presans
Philippe Perrier is one of our latest Fellow recruits at Presans: a true, high-impact heavyweight in the industrial meta-expertise department, just waiting for a challenging deployment opportunity. He took the time to answer a couple of our...
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