Programme

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THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER AM: FINLAND IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

08:30-09:00
Welcome

09:00-09:15
Dominique Estève, President, the Chamber of Commerce Nice Côte d’Azur
Welcome Speech

09:15-09:30
Alice Guilhon, Dean of SKEMA Business School
The knowledge economy, new horizons for management.

09:30-10:00
Ludovic Di Biaggio, Associate Dean for Research, SKEMA Business School
The Knowledge Economy: the stakes for the firms

10:00-10:30
Antti Joensuu, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Trade and Industry of Finland
The Knowledge Economy in Finland: myth or reality?

Coffee Break

11:00-11:20
Lea Lehtinen, Assistant Vice President, Service Innovations, Koné
Knowledge management in global service innovations

11:20-11:40
J.T. Bergqvist, Chairman of the Board, Elektrobit
The future of the Finnish industry- strategy and superproductivity combined

11:40-12:00
Tommi Gustafsson, CEO, Innotiimi
Business spirit as the driving force behind innovation in companies of the knowledge economy

12:00-12:30
Q&A

Lunch

THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER PM

14:30- 15:30
Jean-Marie Descarpentries, President, Observatoire de l’Immatériel
The management in the era of the knowledge economy

Coffee Break

15:30-17:30
Participants choose 1 out of the 4 parallel workshops about the stakes in the knowledge
economy.

W 1: How to innovate through partnership and network? The concept of open innovation.

Presented by Michel Ferrary, Professor, SKEMA
Case: Cisco.

W2: How to change from an offer of product to an offer of service? Which are the associated business models?

Presented by Michel Bernasconi and Jonas Hoffmann, Professors, SKEMA
Case : Gemalto, Sébastien Violette, Marketing Manager, Managed services, Mobile Telecommunications.

W3: How to develop value creation by collective intelligence?

Presented by François Castel and Danièle Chauvel, Innotiimi
Case : VTI Technologies (Finland).

W4: The intangible assets, a source of competitiveness for companies. How to measure and develop them?

Presented by Didier Dumont, Associate Director, Goodwill Management
Case : several companies.

Coffee Break

18:00-18:40
Workshop feedback

18:40-19:15
Georges Dao, CEO, CARI
Developing a construction company in the knowledge economy

Dinner

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER

08:30-09:30
Derrick De Kerckhove, Director Emeritus, University of Toronto and Professor, University of Naples Federico II
The management in the tag era.

09:15-12:30
3 round tables in 3 industries will handle the following question: To what extent do the imperatives related to sustainable development impact on the business models of the company ?

09:30-10:15

Round Table 1: information and communication technology

Presented by Anne Barraquier, Professor, SKEMA
Participants:

• Kristel Lataste, Manager Corporate Strategy - Travel Distribution Solutions, Amadeus
• Marie-Claude Santon, Director Marketing & Communication, SAS.
• Jean-Yves Courtois, CEO, Orolia,
• Gérard Eude, Research and Stategy division, Orange Labs.

10:15-11:00

Round Table 2: banking industry

Presented by Lyvie Gueret-Talon, Professor, CERAM
Participants:

• Arnaud Berger, Director of Sustainable Development, Banque Populaire
• Alain Bellaiche, Director of Development and Innovation, Crédit Agricole
• Alexandre Dohy, Manager of Partnerships Development, Solfea Bank

Coffee Break

11:30-12:30

Round Table 3: The evolution of the transport sector towards mobility services

Presented by Marion Mesnage, Manager, Accenture Technology Labs
Participants:

• Georges Amar, Director of the futurology, RATP. Download the presentation
• Sampo Hietanen, Executive Vice President, Sales and Production Management, Destia,
• Bernard Favre, Director of the Research, Renault Trucks,
• Conrad Wagner, Consultant, CarSharing.

12:30-13:00

Synthesis and closing

Jean-Philippe Courtois, President, Microsoft International & President of SKEMA Advisory Board
What are the sustainable development models for companies in the knowledge economy?

Closing Lunch