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

Shifting up the Innovation Funnel​ ​(for businesses that want to change and innovate faster): Starting new teams and scaling up innovation is more important than ever. The key to success is applying different practices in different stages of the innovation lifecycle. What works for a new business 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). Everything depends on the lifecycle stage of the new product or service. Topics can include (depending on available time): ​Business Lifecycle, Shiftup Model, Problem/Solution Fit, Product/Market Fit, Lean Personas, Jobs To Be Done, Value Proposition Wheel, Pains and Gains, Lean Experiments, Minimum Viable Product, Business Model Canvas, Lean Canvas, Innovation Cycle, North Star Metric, Product Roadmaps, Customer Journey Maps, Business Funnel, Pirate Metrics, Growth Hacking, Growth Board, Innovation Funnel. About the book My new book ​Startup, Scaleup, Screwup​ will be about the European startup/scaleup scene. I have interviewed dozens of people at Spotify, Zalando, Booking, Typeform, TransferWise, Flixbus, iZettle, 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) Expected release date: April 23, 2019 (North America) About me I am the CEO of a startup and quite familiar with all the latest trends. I was once Entrepreneur of the Year in The Netherlands. I just completed EUR 1M of investments for my new company Agility Scales. I have two other businesses, both of which are profitable. I am Europe’s nr 1 Leadership Author (see ​ranking on Inc.com​). As a public speaker, I travel around Europe all the time. My list of clients includes the largest and best-known European companies.

Speakers:

JURGEN APPELO

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

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

From a very vertical hierarchical company with a dozen levels to a flatter organization, as agile as the model describing life, what are the organizational designs that support the new generation of companies?

Holacracy, Sociocracy, S3.0, Open Organization,,... What are the agile methodologies that define new generation business models? How to implement and deploy them? What are the advantages and difficulties inherent in these tools?

- Holacracy

- Sociocracy and Sociocracy 3.0

- Deep Democracy

- GTD

- OKR

- Aequacy

- Scrum / Agile

- Comparison of methodologies

We will give the floor to those who set up the models and to involve companies within the commissions that implement these methodologies, accompanied by their advisory structure.

In an era of automation and AI, what place for the human being in these new companies? Why are people-centred companies the most successful? Why can there be no successful customer experience without a successful employee experience? What are the levers of a successful employee experience? What role does culture and values play? How to support these transformations, from training to coaching and new NVC techniques.

- Recruitment

- Onboarding

- Salaries

- Feedback

- Learning & Development

- Career Path

The more automation replaces man in the mechanical dimension of jobs, the more important the part of man in what defines him (intelligence, creativity, emotions,...) becomes. The importance of diversity will also be discussed here.

Societal Imp

- The Psychology of Agility

- Thoughts, Experiences & Research evidence on the soft-skills requirements for NextGen Management models

- NextGen Management: Changing the rules of the power game

- How to enable psychological development with tools such as Non Violent Communication, Johari Window, etc.

#SoftSkills

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:

GERALD MITTERER

The new generations of companies are characterized by new practices in all areas:

- Decision-Making Processes,

- Information Sharing,

- Culture and Values,

- New Meeting Formats,

- Innovation.

We will focus on the innovative practices of new generation companies, in what characterizes their way of working and their daily practices. Companies will testify about their internal "ways of doing things".

From recruitment to compensation policy, role definition and regular reviews, how do organizations transform traditional HR processes into new distributed and evolving practices? How new generation companies develop strategy? define budgets? What are their purchasing practices? How do they organize their innovation process?

#OKR #Strategy #Recruitment, #Onboarding #Roles #Reviews #Compensations

Speakers:

ISABELLE RAPPART

PHILIPPE PINAULT

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:

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

From a very vertical hierarchical company with a dozen levels to a flatter organization, as agile as the model describing life, what are the organizational designs that support the new generation of companies?

Holacracy, Sociocracy, S3.0, Open Organization,,... What are the agile methodologies that define new generation business models? How to implement and deploy them? What are the advantages and difficulties inherent in these tools?

- Holacracy

- Sociocracy and Sociocracy 3.0

- Deep Democracy

- GTD

- OKR

- Aequacy

- Scrum / Agile

- Comparison of methodologies

We will give the floor to those who set up the models and to involve companies within the commissions that implement these methodologies, accompanied by their advisory structure.

Speakers:

JAMES PRIEST

In an era of automation and AI, what place for the human being in these new companies? Why are people-centred companies the most successful? Why can there be no successful customer experience without a successful employee experience? What are the levers of a successful employee experience? What role does culture and values play? How to support these transformations, from training to coaching and new NVC techniques.

- Recruitment

- Onboarding

- Salaries

- Feedback

- Learning & Development

- Career Path

The more automation replaces man in the mechanical dimension of jobs, the more important the part of man in what defines him (intelligence, creativity, emotions,...) becomes. The importance of diversity will also be discussed here.

Societal Imp

- The Psychology of Agility

- Thoughts, Experiences & Research evidence on the soft-skills requirements for NextGen Management models

- NextGen Management: Changing the rules of the power game

- How to enable psychological development with tools such as Non Violent Communication, Johari Window, etc.

#SoftSkills

Speakers:

ELIANA HOHL

SABRINA BOURAOUI

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:

TOM THOMISON

The new generations of companies are characterized by new practices in all areas:

- Decision-Making Processes,

- Information Sharing,

- Culture and Values,

- New Meeting Formats,

- Innovation.

We will focus on the innovative practices of new generation companies, in what characterizes their way of working and their daily practices. Companies will testify about their internal "ways of doing things".

From recruitment to compensation policy, role definition and regular reviews, how do organizations transform traditional HR processes into new distributed and evolving practices? How new generation companies develop strategy? define budgets? What are their purchasing practices? How do they organize their innovation process?

#OKR #Strategy #Recruitment, #Onboarding #Roles #Reviews #Compensations

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