Co-construction and well-being in the workplace: a natural association?
Collaboration and co-construction are ancient and plural phenomena. The artists' houses (Labs?) in Brooklyn and elsewhere, where people wrote, composed, sculpted or played the piano with their doors wide open, were also frequented by journalists and critics who disseminated their work in post-war New York, right up to the Factory in the 60s; or [...].
Usine IO: support from design to industrialisation
Gary, you co-direct Usine IO. What is its mission? Yes, with my partners Agathe and Benjamin. Usine's mission is to support all physical product project leaders from design through to industrialisation. We want to become the benchmark for hardware product development worldwide. Companies are under pressure to innovate [...].
Growth Hacking: long live the pirates!
With every start-up now imagining itself as a potential Airbnb, Facebook or Instagram, growth hacking is now very much in vogue: everyone is talking about it, without really knowing what this rather barbaric term means. Wikipedia describes it as "tinkering with growth", but it's more likely to mean "hacking it": computer hackers [...].
Putting the consumer at the heart of innovation
Interview on innovation with Laurent Ponthou, Director of Transformation at Orange In the 90s, when the French were asked what they would think of a wireless telephone that would allow them to communicate in the street, they said it would never work: when it comes to innovation, we can no longer rely on consumers as we used to? [...]
The 7 golden rules of successful Design Thinking!
The ability to transform in an ultra-reactive, fast-changing world where the end customer is king is the key to a company's success. Kodak failed to transform itself, but IBM did. The Design Thinking approach offers this capacity for transformation to companies that respect a few rules... but also a few apparent paradoxes: [...]
