{"id":2130,"date":"2015-04-20T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2015-04-20T16:57:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:57:43","slug":"panel-discussion-on-innovation-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2015\/04\/20\/panel-discussion-on-innovation-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel Discussion on Innovation Intelligence @ Mardis de l’Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Giget strikes again. The innovation thinker\u00a0who pens\u00a0forewords<\/a>\u00a0is also the focal point around which the French innovation community\u00a0gathers. Over 200 people attended this week\u2019s edition of\u00a0his seminar<\/a>. Topic of\u00a0the session :\u00a0Open Innovation\u00a0\u2014 perspectives after ten years of practice in a digital world.\u00a0<\/i>Presans coordinated the session.<\/p>\n

This isn’t Albert Meige\u2019s\u00a0first\u00a0gig here<\/a>. This time he came to present the main trends\u00a0from the\u00a0book<\/a>\u00a0he just finished co-writing with Jacques Schmitt. His talk was interspersed with subliminal encouragements to\u00a0acquire it<\/a>. The vision of the future he described is shaped by the twin waves of digitalization and commoditization. This rapidly approaching scenario would also see players of various sizes converge towards similar strategies.<\/p>\n

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On the level of intermediaries and service providers, time hasn\u2019t decisively\u00a0answered the question of the optimal business model. We might add that it\u00a0has however provided\u00a0negative hints<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the level of big companies, Albert stressed the importance of\u00a0the involvement of top leaders\u00a0\u00a0when it comes\u00a0to supporting a culture combining creativity and severity, traits required by successful innovation. Within organizations, one major ramification of this reality is the rise of the Chief Innovation Officer.<\/p>\n

Subsequent presentations brought their own points of view regarding both these themes.<\/p>\n

Jean-Christophe Simon, Chief Innovation Officer at\u00a0SEB<\/a>\u00a0showed us his company’s answer to the relentless current of commoditization : relentless\u00a0proximity to the consumer and product perfectionism. As he reminded the audience : without this type of culture, you can\u2019t sell 1500 euro coffee machines in Germany. His mission within his organization is to gather and mobilize the community of internal and external experts around both business needs and strategic goals.<\/p>\n

Christophe Aufr\u00e8re, Director of Technological Strategy at\u00a0Faurecia<\/a>, mainly talked about on the complex factors that determine technological innovation strategy. Sustainable mobility and improved onboard quality of life are the\u00a0twin strategic pillars of the French manufacturer of vehicle components. Faurecia\u2019s global\u00a0expert network is built around the funding of research chairs, such as in the ones in Munich and Shanghai.<\/p>\n

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Pascal Magnier, co-founder of\u00a0Expernova<\/a>\u00a0focused on the choices that guided the evolution of his product : expanding the access to data, learning about the ecosystem, adapting the expert ranking system to diverse and very specific needs, increasing workflow integration.<\/p>\n

I am told intense and uncompromising book-signings took place in the aftermath of the conference.<\/p>\n

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