by Albert Meige | Jun 21, 2019 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Digital platforms structure the activity of open organizations. This article distinguishes three types of platforms and shows how they manage to develop, on what principles their operations are based, and how to position oneself in the ecosystems they inexorably create around them.
by Albert Meige | Nov 18, 2016 | INNOVATION
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 Industrial Revolution...
by Albert Meige | Nov 15, 2016 | INNOVATION
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 early-nineteenth centuries and was...
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...
