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 : Agility as a lever for organization

Description: Companies are looking for an operating model that allows for greater agility in the face of increasing instability in their ecosystem.

But to truly embrace change, shouldn't we let go of the organizational side to allow new ways of operating to emerge?

OCTO, a company awarded several times as a Great Place To Work and recognized for its innovative management practices, seeks to apply the approaches of agile methods (short cycles, MVP) to evolve its organization and its models of operations.

This session aims to share these approaches.

Speakers:

LUDOVIC CINQUIN

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 : Corporations can pursue the common good single-mindedly and—thanks to that—succeed

Description : In the 1990s, to overcome the single-minded pursuit of profit and shareholder value maximization, many companies decided to focus at People, Planet, and Profit simultaneously.

It rarely worked because they pursued the People and Planet dimensions as long as it didn’t hurt their profits! In other words, serving People and Planet turned to be the costs of doing business—not a company purpose.

But for the last 5 years, we have studied several dozen companies which transformed themselves to serve their employees, customers, suppliers and local communities unconditionally, and they do it through their core business processes.

We call them “Altruistic Corporations.” That is the secret of their success, and it might seem amazing, but pursuing single-mindedly the common good proved to be the best way to achieve long-lasting economic performance too.

Speakers:

ISAAC GETZ

Title: Selfmanagement: the next stage of management?

Description: Selfmanagement is the next stage of organisational development. Working in a self steering way leads to better results and higher satisfaction of the employees.

Trust is the main principle, followed by autonomy, responsibility and freedom.

Teams decide how they organise their work, share responsibilities and make decisions. They are entrepreneurial in spirit and continually improving the organisation and services.

Speakers:

JOS DE BLOK

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

Title: Formula X: How to become as fast and agile as a Formula 1 team

Description: While for some organizations it can take months to deliver new innovations to the market, Formula 1 teams have minimized their build-measure-learn cycle time to mere days.

A F1 team's ability to innovate, learn and adapt quickly in fast-changing conditions are key to outpace the competition and achieve performance. F1 teams simply can’t afford to waste time on slow decision making, ineffective meetings or other forms of bureaucracy. But can you?

Come to this session to take a look behind the scenes of a Formula 1 team, and learn practical things you can do to make your organization faster, agile and more innovative."

Speakers:

JURRIAAN KAMER

Title: Fireside Chat: Self-Management In Large Organizations

Self-Management In Large Organizations

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.

Speakers:

PAUL WALKER

VIVEK MENON

XAVIER BOEMARE

Title: De-constructing Leadership

Description: There have been plenty of conversations around what kind of leadership is needed in the New World of Work:

From "servant" to "agile" to "holding space" - many terms that try to describe what is the new appropriate way of leading. Yet, many of these terms still build on implicit associations and assumptions sneaking in through the door with the term "leadership".

A new paradigm of organizing makes it necessary to go beyond leadership as we know it and explore what qualities are required to co-create wholesome organizations.

The question for next:organisations is not about "power over" or "power with" but: What is the role of power in my organisation and how are we working with it?

Facilitation:

Ewa Bocian, dwarfs and Giants: Rewriting the future of organizations. Catalyzing the evolution of wholesome organizations.

Speakers:

ANNA ZARUDZKA

EWA BOCIAN

Title: 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:

FLORENT MENEGAUX

JOS DE BLOK

PIERRE SINODINOS

PIERRE-ALAIN RAPHAN

Title: The Psychology of Agility

Description: 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

Title: Humanity above bureaucracy

Description: Humanity, autonomy and self organisation go hand in hand. We need a consistent world view and set of principles to create human organisations.

Our nursing model cuts bureaucracy and gives nurses more freedom and time with clients. How work in healthcare becomes 'love made visible' again.

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

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

Title: PowerShift: What Self-organization Really Wants

How “PowerShifted” various self-organizing practices are at this moment in time.

"Imagine a world without employees where work is coordinated and self-organized in pursuit of purposes greater than ourselves. A world where we can delight in and lead our work with less fear yet grow from the challenges that arise when we risk stepping into our power and authority.”

Speakers:

TOM THOMISON

Title: Cooperative society

Cooperative, 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

Title: From hyper hierarchical organizations to adaptive teams Sharing experience in the public sector

Does your organization need to accelerate decision making and adapt faster? Do you wonder how your team can be more agile and set the pace for the entire organization?

Is this just theory or is it real?

To answer these questions, participants will experiment a new metamodel of agility that is the result of 15 years of practice and experimentation and they will hear live testimonies from two special guests who are applying agile management right now : in a renowned Spanish hospital and in the Department of Social Welfare of the French government.

Key words : #AdaptiveTeams #AdaptiveOrg #HowtoAdaptDaily #CulturalTransformation #BusinessCase #Testimony #AgileModel #PublicSector #AdaptiveGovernance

Speakers:

ALEXANDRE BOYER

DAVID FONT FERRER

FLORENCE HUNOT CORTES

PASCAL BERNARD