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Sofia 3 : five million experts at your fingertips – interview with the wizard behind this prodigy
Presans is proud to announce the new version of Sofia (presans.com/x-search), the search engine and management tool for international experts. Sofia 3 is both more accurate and more relevant: Comprehensive coverage of global expertise, over 5 million experts...
Interview with Two Wizards: Albert Meige & Rémi Larrousse
Albert Meige and Rémi Larrousse are both exemplars of a rare breed of magicians / entrepreneurs. They recently embarked on a completely new type of project: delivering innovation + magic corporate seminars for project-oriented companies who want to revamp their...
Food for Thought: Michel Houellebecq and Innovation
We have to realize that the objects that are manufactured in the world - reinforced concrete, electric lamps, underground trains, handkerchiefs - are all designed and manufactured by a small class of engineers and technicians, able to imagine and to implement the...
GE: Digital Disruption Takeover?
Industrial titan General Electric and France keep the plot twists coming. 2014 was the year the merger with Alstom took place. Two years later, GE is deploying its first Digital Foundry in Paris, where developers and data scientists will create...
HEC-Roundtable: Managers from GE, Safran, IBM, Total, Airbus Discuss Digitalization
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...
Industrial Digital Transformation: Interview with Robert Plana, General Electrics
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...
Business Performance Awards: GE, SEB… and Jeremy Rifkin
Somehow I landed in the prestigious and quite vast Théâtre de Chaillot to cover the first ever Business Performance Awards, organized by consulting company Ayming (thank you Albertino 🙂 ). The theme of the evening is: performance. A jury...
Startup Index Quest | 4 – the Startup Graveyards
One reason to build a startup index is to get data out of it. At least, such a reason might seem plausible. With data, you can measure such things as the life expectancy of startups. Why not? But this means that your index needs a graveyard,...
The Game-Changer Mindset
A company’s corporate culture prescribes to its members what to believe, what to prefer, what to do and how to do it. Such a set of prescriptions is based on the example of leaders, on the traditions of the past, and on bureaucratic rules. It...
The Chief Innovation Officer should be in charge of new territories. No more. No less.
A analysis with Google Trends on “Chief Innovation Officer” shows an increasing interest starting in 2010. The term was actually coined and described by Miller and Morris in 1998, but it seems to have only received interest in the past 4-5...
2033: Work Will Be Replaced By Transferring | Albert Meige | TEDxÉcolePolytechnique
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In 2033, you’ll be transferring, not working
2033. Imagine that we are in 2033. Are you there? That’s not 2033! Here, let me give you a hand. In 2033, we still won’t have hoverboards, or flying cars. However, in 2033, more and more restaurants will use 3D printing to print food!?! In 2033, autonomous cars will...
The Uberization of “Heavy” Industry: Some Thoughts on the Oil & Gas Case
A couple of weeks ago, I got invited by the Director of Intellectual Property (IP) of a large international corporation in the energy sector to give a conference on innovation and digitalization. While I am fairly well-versed in both topics, this...
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