EXPLORING AND BUILDING TOMORROW'S ORGANIZATIONS
Think really big: Elon Musk
Up to the early 1970s, our vision of the future was optimistic. Mankind, divided into two rival neo-European empires, was on track to build the titanic extension into space of its terrestrial habitat. This configuration proved unstable in the sense defined...
Disrupting the world of politics: Interview with Arthur Muller, cofounder @ Liegey Muller Pons
Tell us about yourself and what you do. I'm one of the three cofounders of Liegey Muller Pons (LMP), which sounds like we came straight out of the 19th Century, but really is a startup that wants to change the way communications and opinion...
Three meanings of the word ‘disruption’
The word "disruption" gets thrown around a whole lot these days, including on this blog. A good word-throw requires a good grip on the meanings of a word, a bit like in wrestling. In the case of "disruption", three plausible meanings emerge...
Breakthrough Factory Interview: Albert Meige & Eric Kirstetter
The Breakthrough Factory is a new approach to systematically and efficiently create breakthrough innovations based on technology. Arthur D Little and Presans are partners in this brand new offering. Breakthrough Factory mastermind Eric Kirstetter, Partner at the ADL...
How the world of industry confronts the hurricane of 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...
The imperative of open innovation is shaking up the world of corporations
In an era where information is instantly available everywhere on the planet, novelties seem to fade instantly. The competition is never far away, and in order to survive, there is no other choice than to innovate faster. In the space of just a...
We had to impose ourselves on IT: Interview with Frédéric Sutter, Digital Transformation Program Director, Airbus Group
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...
The Entrepreneur Generation
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...
Interview with Emmanuelle Duez, CEO @ The Boson Project
Tell us about yourself and how you decided to create The Boson Project. During my student years (at Sciences Po Paris, ESSEC and Bocconi University, my idea was that I’d become a police commissioner or an investigating judge. Then I came to the...
Marguerite Humeau @ Palais de Tokyo – Exploring Science & Art
Marguerite Humeau is a “disruptive” artist (Stanislas de Bentzmann, Devoteam Group CEO and patron of this exhibit) whose latest work is an exploration of the origin of our humanity (Palais de Tokyo exhibition). Based on the Jared Diamond inspired idea that...
Emmanuel Faber: Find Your Little Brother!
On the 24th of June, Emmanuel Faber, CEO of Danone imparted something to his Commencement Ceremony audience at HEC that may not have been what had been expected : the idea that meaning and purpose don’t come from status, money and power, and that tomorrow’s leaders...
Arthur D Little & Presans Join Forces to Launch Breakthrough Factory
Paris, 16 June 2016: The collaboration between open industrial innovation startup Presans and management and strategy consulting firm Arthur D. Little aims to make breakthrough innovation systematic and effective. In order to achieve high success rates, breakthrough...
Wizards of Disruption
Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three laws regarding predictions: Clarke's first law When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is...
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