The NextGen Enterprise Summit

Launch of the Summit by Minister Bruno Le Maire

Speakers:

BRUNO LE MAIRE

In Silicon Valley and more generally in the United States, companies normally mention that they want to change the world during the presentation of the project. They boast that their project contributes greatly to this change.

Well, some people will say that this is a form of Storytelling in order to give it a commercial approach. Perhaps, but these companies combine a societal mission and an entrepreneurial project in their presentations. So why deprive themselves of it!

André Citroën, whose centenary brand we are proudly be celebrating this year, would he not have wanted to change the world by widening access to the automobile? Would the company become a major place for changing the world? Sometimes companies are perceived, in an antagonistic way, as a place of exploitation and profit. Isn’t the contemporary company mutating towards a societal object as mentioned by the works of Frédéric Laloux?

The growing societal expression of the desire for participation, the complexity of competitive and regulatory environments and the need to rethink our production and consumption patterns in an environmentally conscious way, are all constraints and opportunities to rethink work and the organisational forms that make it possible. There is a contradiction between the increasingly procedural and constraining systems in response to complexity of environments and ordinary innovation requirements (at all levels of the organisation) for differentiation and optimization challenges. This leads to a managerial crisis that sociologist François Dupuy called “lost in management”.

In order to find solutions, many organisations develop managerial innovations to give people more room for manoeuvre and to develop their capacity for collective achievement.

The command/control model and the resulting functional-hierarchic structural organisations shift under the impetus of the collaborative and innovation requirements. This change cannot take the direct cutover approach by discarding the notions of supervision and the associated responsibilities. This change, which has already begun, is taking place in work and its organisation.

This emergence has different names such as the future of work or managerial innovation. This involves renewing management practices, ways of working and the content of the work itself. Slasheurs (people with several jobs), start-ups, freelancers, holacratic or sociocratic organisations (power sharing and empowerment at local level), etc. are all expressions of this future of work.

This raises questions of governance, responsibility, performance and mission that companies must integrate into their operations and organisation. Even if this can sometimes take the form of ineffective fashion effects, the movement is part of management in the form of managerial innovations.

Speakers:

JEAN-DOMINIQUE SENARD

Title : Adapt to the innovation economy

How to Fix Your Failed Agile Transformation

Talk abstract

The problem with many agile transformations is that existing methods and frameworks treat everyone the same. They make no distinction between startups and scaleups, between disruptive innovative ideas versus existing successful products. But starting new teams and scaling up innovation is more important than ever.

The key to a successful agile transformation is applying different practices in different stages of the business lifecycle. What works for a new product does not work for a mature one, and vice versa.

In this talk, we will nosedive into the major good practices for business leaders and product teams, from the moment they have an innovative idea to the day they will scale it up (or screw it up). Your agile transformation depends on product lifecycles, the innovation vortex, and the innovation funnel.

The topics include the Business Lifecycle, Problem/Solution Fit, Product/Market Fit, Minimum Viable Products, Business Model Canvas, Lean Canvas, Growth Hacking, Lean Experiments, OKRs, North Star Metric, Innovation Vortex, Empathy Maps, Lean Personas, Jobs To Be Done, Journey Mapping, Innovation Funnels, and more.

About the book My new book Startup, Scaleup, Screwup is about the European startup/scaleup scene. I have interviewed dozens of people at Spotify, Zalando, Booking, Typeform, TransferWise, Flixbus, and many other inspiring companies. Businesses all over the world want more innovation, with happier workers, and at a faster pace. It is time for them to learn how European startups are agile and lean, and how they scale up their businesses.

Author: Jurgen Appelo Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, USA (hardcover, 300 pages) Release in April 2019

Speakers:

JURGEN APPELO

Title : Common Sense Patterns for Organization-Wide Agility

Description: Organizations today face unprecedented complexity.

Success relies increasingly on a competent and engaged network of individuals and teams that learn fast, collaborate and respond quickly and effectively to the numerous challenges and opportunities faced. But how to get there?

In this talk, James highlights the contribution that key Sociocracy 3.0 patterns and principles are making in enabling people to get the best out of their collaboration.

And, how freeing people up to decide and act for themselves, within clearly defined constraints can radically improve an organization’s ability to innovate, adapt and learn.

Speakers:

JAMES PRIEST

Title: Brave New Work / Lessons From 100 Attempts

Subject: Over the course of nearly five years, The Ready has had the chance to provoke and support Brave New Work inside 100 organizations.

We have seen success—we have known failure—and everything in between.

Now, for the first time, we will share some of the deeper lessons we have learned, and make a case for what is missing that prevents radical and rapid change at the scale we all seek.

Speakers:

AARON DIGNAN

What are the main transformations at work and the characteristics of the new working methods?

What are the remarkable changes in the roles of executives, managers and employees in an ultra-connected world where technology reinvents work and where the customer and employee experience becomes a major challenge? How can these transitions be supported?

- Managerial Innovation

- New enterprise frameworks (purpose driven company, cooperative,..)

We will highlight the trends described by the leading institutes, studies and illustrate them by figures... We will show that the future of work is already here, describe it and make it concrete.

#Collaboration #Mobility #RealTime #Management #Values #Soft Skills #Workspaces

Speakers:

SUSANNE AEBISCHER

In response to the need for innovation, commitment and social responsibility, companies must reinvent themselves. If there is no debate about the objective, there is debate about the "how".

Should the transformation be radical by moving from one model to another or should it be gradual? If the radical mode (liberated organization, holocracy, sociocracy) is manifested in small organizations in creation, it is less evident in large established organizations.

Managerial innovation appears as a form of transformation of organisations in an incremental way by proposing local evolutions of the modes of cooperation that produce experimentation.

This evolution of organisational modes questions the major models of society's thinking and advocates an emerging society-oriented approach.

Speakers:

DAVID AUTISSIER

JURRIAAN KAMER

In this workshop, three journeymen of self-management from different companies (Zappos, Engie, and Danfoss) will share their experiences, knowledge, and insights on what it means to implement self-management at scale.

What unique challenges do larger organizations face, how do you properly spread a message across hundreds or thousands of employees, and what common misconceptions exist around self-managing within bigger companies?

These questions will be addressed through a mix of storytelling, activities, and plenty of Q&A.

Speakers:

PAUL WALKER

VIVEK MENON

XAVIER BOEMARE

From a "For Profit" company to a "For Purpose" company, what place and role for the company today in a world with multiple and complex social and societal challenges?

Companies are today the most powerful lever for transformation in the world, to what extent? What challenges and responsibilities for companies that have become platforms and as powerful as states.

We will present a world we will present a global benchmark of existing frameworks adopted by different states and countries.

Then we'll organise a debate / workshop between European politicians and business leaders to define the foundations of a European framework for purpose driven companies.

Speakers:

EWA BOCIAN

Renewing meetings with Holacracy

Do you find that the meetings you attend are inefficient and waste your time?

Do you find that topics get bogged down and decisions are difficult to make?

That the "real issues" are not being discussed?

It is possible to make this collective time more efficient and satisfying.

In this workshop you will have the opportunity to review your experience of the meeting from top to bottom. HappyWork has developed a serious game allowing you to live the Holacracy experience from the inside.

You then leave with tools that can be used immediately in your next meetings.

Speakers:

ISABELLE RAPPART

PHILIPPE PINAULT

Title: Language of spaces

Overcoming Resistance Against the Power Shift

Some “NextGen Enterprises” hold the potential to be real game changers for humanity and this potential is the power shift. Power shift stands for a deep shift from “power over” to “power with” to “power is”.

It doesn’t (only) require a structural shift in the organization, it requires a fundamental shift in mindset and is therefore a deep personal development journey for everybody concerned.

Being confronted with this requirement for personal change often creates resistance and methods useful in conventional hierarchical settings lose their effectiveness in a power shifted context.

In this workshop you learn about the Language of Spaces, a holistic framework to expand the core capacities needed for individuals to thrive in a power shifted context. It is the only framework for personal growth that was developed from the experience of working in a power shifted context and is therefore uniquely suited to support individuals and collectives on this transformative journey.

Speakers:

CHRISTIANE SEUHS-SCHOELLER

Facilitation roundtable of 7 participants

Interaction with the public with the horn tool

Real-time synthesis and voting of "good" ideas

Description:

7 managing directors personally and professionally involved in the ESG will try to draw the quintescence of their experiences to propose ideas and/or actions to accelerate the intention of the pact law. Namely the development of a capitalism more concerned by its environmental or societal impacts.

To answer this complex ambition, we will ask a simple question:

"You are Emmanuel Macron, you have a magic wand, what decision do you take immediately to improve the positive impact of companies on ecology, social and governance?

What would be the most powerful lever to advance the cause according to your experience?

The only constraint your wand has is limited resources... "

Managers of large groups, institutional representatives, managers of SMEs and SSE will try to answer this question through interactions between them and with the public present.

Speakers:

PIERRE SINODINOS

The Psychology of Agility In the entire “new work” area agility is highly requested.

Beyond the normative idea of agility, which itself is not well defined, the concept has some fundamental psychological implications.

It’s one of the main insights from our research, that agility needs to come in harmony with reflection and personal development.

We see a strong need to strengthen psychological resources in order to get agility functional as well as psychologically sustainable.

In the workshop we aim to work on some fundamental aspects of personal and team related learning pathways to agility.

Speakers:

DOMINIK GROLIMUND

MICHAEL ZIRKLER

How to scale up a company while keeping the same startup spirit? How to manage a company in a period of hyper growth? How to develop innovation while growing? What are the keys to success, managerial practices and innovations in place in hyper-growth organizations?

- Testimonies of organizations with several hundred to more than a thousand employees which have experienced a very strong growth phase.

We will cover themes addressed in the Process, Practices, Methodologies, etc. section, but will highlight them in a context of strong growth.

#Growth #Leadership

Speakers:

DOUG KIRKPATRICK

JOS DE BLOK

Title: Design enabling constraints for agility, engagement and performance.

Description:

Following on from his talk on the importance of consciously designed constraints to enable effective collaboration in self-organizing systems, this brief workshop will deepen the topic.

You’ll examine your own organizational context and experiment with Clarifying Domains (areas of work that you or others are responsible for). Clarifying Domains is an often overlooked, yet extremely valuable starting point when freeing people up to take greater responsibility for organizational management throughout a system.

This workshop is ideal for anyone working with organizations operating in complexity. You’ll learn about domains, why it’s important to clarify them, and their relevance for enabling effective self-organization and ensuring coherence and organizational integrity is maintained.

Speakers:

JAMES PRIEST

Theme: PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT

Title: NextGen Enterprise: taking change to the next level

Imagine you ignore the notifications your smartphone keeps sending you about updating your mobile's operating system. It would be a mess, right?

The exact same principle applies to your organization. Yet, reality shows that most companies ignore or don't even see these strong and weak signals. How come?

While the call for change has grown, the way that change is actually achieved has not. Let’s explore the differences between change and transformation, training & inner development together.

Be ready to walk away from this session with a new framework for better understanding and approaching transformational change and its complexity.

Speakers:

ELIANA HOHL

SABRINA BOURAOUI

Cooperative society, Freedom-form company, shared governance, Holacracy. You don’t really know the difference ?

It feels like deciding everything together every single day ! To you it really sounds like chaos. Aliocha Iordanoff will share how he made the decision to open his companyto his team and how Holacracy made the difference to legitimate his new 6 associates. Let’s share with Aliocha about his story in an active way and make a moove on your beliefs !

Speakers:

ALIOCHA IORDANOFF

Introduction: We will present a global metamodel of fast adaptive teams and organizations : how does it work at people, team and Organizations levels? How to develop adaptive skills from Executive Committees to any operational team?

Round-table talks: Then our speakers, Directors in Public Organizations, will share their experience of managing and living huge cultural changes through implementing flat organizations, quick adaptive practices, agile strategies, accelerating decision-making and services delivery.

Key words: #AdaptiveTeams #AdaptiveOrg #HowtoAdaptDaily #CulturalTransformation #BusinessCase #Testimony #MetaModel #PublicSector #AgileGovernance

Speakers:

ALEXANDRE BOYER

DAVID FONT FERRER

FLORENCE HUNOT CORTES

PASCAL BERNARD