Yves Pigneur

Discussion intéressante avec Benjamin Duban et Fred Arnoux, créateurs de STIM, une startup qui industrialise la théorie C-K, de l’Ecole des Mines

“Stim-X est le centre de recherche et développement. C’est là que STIM travaille au quotidien pour repousser les frontières de l’innovation [...] STIM s’appuie sur la recherche, et principalement sur la théorie C-K, pour développer les méthodes d’innovation …

“Days of PhD Students” at our Institute for Information Systems (ISI) in Lausanne. Among them, Dina Elikan will present her thesis proposal entitled “An Ontology and a visual tool for designing a Startup Brand”.

“Branding is key at the beginning of a startup’s life. The literature about corporate branding is dense and contains a lot of different typologies. Nevertheless the literature of startup branding is sparse and there are only few models to validate and conceptualize branding in a startup. Brands are an asset to the company, thus they should be well thought of. They are also a strategic way to differentiate a startup from its competitors. And having a well-defined brand allows all the people involved in the startup to communicate the same message to all stakeholders. This project aims to identify the key concepts and relationships in the domain of Startup Branding in order to propose a structured vision and definition of the concept. With this in mind, my research aims to develop a so- called “Startup Brand Ontology” and a visual tool to help startups co-design their brand. With the intention to help them express and communicate a clear vision, image and culture to all their stakeholders. (more…)

Fruitful discussion with Christian Sinobas, founder and CEO of Kiwi

“KiWi is the digital platform of micro-merchants [mainly in Mexic0]. With KiWi app, merchants can manage their transactions (cash register) and sell new products and services, such as airtime top-ups for prepaid mobile phones. With KiWi card reader & app, merchants can also accept cards payments, such as Visa and MasterCard.

The CIO Symposium (web) organised by the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) at ICIS aims at connecting IS scholars and IS practitioners. The CIO Symposium and IVI Winter Summit focus on ‘Winning strategies for enabling the Digital Enterprise – Secrets of Successful CIOs and thought-leaders’ (more)

Insightful talk by Jeanne Ross (MIT) on “Designed for Digital”, speaking about efficiency (of the operational backbone) Vs agility (of the digital services platform), illustrated with the impressive LEGO case study.

A video by Steve Blank on Value Proposition and MVP, entitled “The Common Startup Mistake You Really Don’t Want to Make, According to a Serial Entrepreneur” on Inc.com

The objective of this workshop (web), coordinated by Frantz Rowe at FNEGE, is to support young information systems faculty members from France and all over Europe in their effort to publish their research in the most prestigious outlets within the information systems discipline. Over a period of four days, the editors of leading information systems journals will work together with the participants in an interactive way to provide hands-on advice on the research publication process (more)

My workshop, more iconoclast than the serious seminars by other experts and senior editors of major journals (MISQ, ISR, EJIS …), is entitled “Research must be for publication but publication must also be for impact”

Rencontre avec Michel Vanden Bossche, un ami belge “serial entrepreneur”. Son entreprise ODASE Ontologies a développé une approche formelle, originale mais solide, de développement de gros logiciels. Ils ont eu l’occasion d’expérimenter avec succès et valider leur approche sur d’énormes projets dans le domaine des assurances, de la finance, des ressources humaines, du médical …

Pour se savoir plus sur leur vision du développement logiciel, un petit article dans Le Monde Informatique ici, une présentation pdf, et leur site web ODASE.

Ce colloque (web), organisé par François Bodart à l’Université de Namur, est basé sur le constat d’une crispation identitaire croissante conduisant progressivement à des replis communautaires sources du rejet de l’autre et, par conséquent à la mise en question du vivre ensemble.

PERSPECTIVE

Le vivre ensemble tel que le conçoivent les organisateurs du colloque correspond à la recherche de convergences vers une certaine unité dans le respect des diversités au sein de la société. Celles-ci sont à la fois une richesse et un ferment pour le développement des solidarités indispensables pour réduire les fractures sociales … suite

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BMGEN at the 8th Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna with Alex, Rita McGrath, Bill Fischer, and many others, on the theme “The Entrepreneurial Society”

“In his landmark book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, published in 1985, Peter Drucker described the tectonic shift that he perceived in its early stages – the move from an employee society towards an entrepreneurial society. This shift was, and still is, being driven by unstoppable forces such as changing demographics, globalization and ever accelerating advances in information and communication technology. (more)

Invited with Alex, by Richard Straub to the CEO Round table, with speakers Roger Martin, Tim Brown, Bill Fischer, John Hagel, and Rita McGrath on innovation in big corporations, at Vienna.