Archive for the ‘ideas’ Category

Les yeux pour pleurer

Saturday, February 2nd, 2019

Publication du livre “Les yeux pour pleurer – 50 ans chez les patrons”, par Marcel Bourgeois, un ami de très longue date, décédé l’année passé.

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“Au terme d’une activité de conseil en organisation d’entreprises longue d’un demi-siècle, l’auteur brosse une galerie de portraits qui retrace l’évolution du patronat en France et dans les pays voisins depuis le début des années 1960. Cet itinéraire conduit le lecteur des derniers patrons paternalistes du nord de la France à l’émergence de managers « modernes » aux pratiques de plus en plus cyniques puis d’un capitalisme exclusivement financier à la naissance des formes nouvelles d’entrepreneuriat que sont les start-up et les auto-entrepreneurs. Ce témoignage instruit le procès d’un capitalisme désormais étranger aux hommes et réalités de la production.

Innovation portfolio at IMD

Thursday, January 31st, 2019

talk at IMD on the Business Model Portfolio, invited by Cyril Bouquet, during the Transform Tech week, organised by IMD and EPFL.

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Thinkers50 Radar 2019

Monday, January 21st, 2019

“Today, [Thinkers50 is] delighted to introduce our annual selection of 30 thinkers to watch in the coming year — the people whose work we have encountered in our physical and intellectual travels, and who have piqued our interest … (more)

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Business Models – A Research Overview

Tuesday, January 15th, 2019

Foreword for a book on Business Models by Prof. Christian Nielsen, Aalborg, and his team

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Business Models: A Research Overview provides a research map for business scholars, incorporating theoretical and applied perspectives. It develops the field of business model research by offering a critique of the field as it has developed to date and provides a guide for future research and theorization … (web) (more…)

FIT digital

Wednesday, December 19th, 2018

Participation au jury FIT Digital, invité par Didier Schwartz: 5 startups pour cette série!

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“La FIT Digital a pour but de soutenir les entrepreneurs qui développent des projets digitaux sur le Canton de Vaud, reposant sur un modèle d’affaire innovant, difficile à imiter et avec un fort potentiel de croissance. Cet outil a été conçu pour identifier non seulement les startups prometteuses dans le domaine du digital, mais aussi les entrepreneurs talentueux qui seront en charge de créer les emplois de demain

Drucker Forum

Thursday, November 29th, 2018

10th Global Peter Drucker Forum at Vienna, with Alex

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in 2 sessions:
“Strategy in the face or reality” (video) and
“Human Questions, Machine answers: the Blended Future of Work” (video)

One of the first time I present on stage our Culture Map, developed with Alex and Dave Gray.

“Don’t let your company culture just happen”

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collaboration with Alex

Monday, November 26th, 2018

A 18-year story with Alex …

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Drawing a big picture

Friday, November 2nd, 2018

New book by Prof. Noboru Konno and Prof. Ikujiro Nonaka, entitled “Drawing the Big picture”

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Design Thinking

Saturday, October 27th, 2018

Meeting and long discussion with Michael Lewrick, Chief Innovation Officer of Swisscom, and author of “The Design Thinking Playbook”

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interesting ideas on business ecosystems design …

Thesis defence at Unil

Friday, October 12th, 2018

Public defence of the Bertil Chapuis’s PhD thesis, entitled “Three Temporal Perspectives on Decentralized Location-aware Computing: Past, Present, Future”, supervised by Benoît Garbinato