Daniele Chauvel

SKEMA Business School · KTO

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this special section is to highlight the challenges organizations face with the reality of the intergenerational diversity. These challenges affect critically all the aspects of learning and corporate memory in organizations. Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual approach is adopted to examine the existing liter...

A new competitive dynamic has taken shape, a knowledge-based approach to innovation, with the aim of exploring and understanding the nature and origins of this phenomenon and more accurately pinpointing the structural and managerial aspects that stimulate innovation. Knowledge management implements and provides the coordination systems in order to...

This chapter focuses on three main organizational levers: the agile and aggressive attitude of the entrepreneur, the culture of participative innovation and managerial innovation or appropriate management. The culture of an organization is a set of shared rules and values, either explicit or implicit, a system of cohesion and coherence that shapes...

This chapter outlines some major steps in the evolution of the concept of innovation, shaping the meaning attributed to it at the beginning of the 21st Century, as the inevitable necessity of economic and social growth and deployment. According to Schumpeter's interpretation, innovation is a technical change, a historical and irreversible transform...

Innovation is a process that essentially depends on knowledge from both inside and outside a company. An organization must, above all else, capitalize on the collective intelligence of its collaborators. Current research shows that the main pivots facilitating this collective dynamic are the capacities to incite individual and collective creativity...

This chapter focuses on the organizational approaches to innovation adopted internally by companies in order to outline what an innovative company may be. It also cites a small number of external approaches and situates them in a more global context. Various types of interindustry contractual form have developed to expand the capacity to innovate,...

L’entreprise innovante, un objet mal identifié analyse les principales caractéristiques d’un tel type de firme d’après la littérature scientifique sur le sujet et des exemples puisés dans le contexte organisationnel fait de petites et grandes entreprises. L’ouvrage présente cinq principaux leviers qui définissent la main (in)visible de l’entreprise...

Cet ouvrage est le deuxième de la série « L'innovation entre le risque et la réussite ». Son objectif est d’esquisser le profil d’une entreprise innovante capable de maintenir et déployer sa compétitivité.L’entreprise innovante, un objet mal identifié analyse les principales caractéristiques d’un tel type de firme d’après la littérature scientifiqu...

In the Knowledge era, innovation and knowledge are intertwined, being innovation a knowledge intensive process that firms must manage to become innovative. This study aims to analyze the relationships between the design elements required to build an innovative enterprise and the implementation of social media. It investigates how the practices of k...

Valtech is a Paris-based consulting firm established in 1993 and devoted to e-business technologies. The company was initially structured as a distributor of new information technologies to the French and European market which secondarily provided training in the use of its products. Valtech now positions itself as a pure knowledge-transfer firm wh...

The overall objective of this network of excellence is to train the BRAINCHILD change masters, champions and activists (called "Chief Knowledge Officers) in knowledge management for local administrations,. Applying the action learning method for a C.K.O. Graduate Course, a pilot group of C.K.O.'s will develop at the same time the strategic roadmaps...

Among the tools that knowledge management (KM) now deploys to assess its state of development are those surveys which determine current practice, establish benchmarks and offer a quantitative/qualitative description of what occurs “in reality”. The premise of this paper is that a competent analysis of survey research in any domain opens a window on...

This book adopts a knowledge-based perspective that sees the firm as a store of knowledge resources and capabilities. The firm’s knowledge base includes the expertise and experience of individuals, the routine and processes that define the distinctive way of doing things inside the organization, as well as the knowledge of customer needs and suppli...

The overall objective of this network of excellence is to train the BRAINCHILD change masters, champions and activists (called “Chief Knowledge Officers) in knowledge management for local administrations,. Applying the action learning method for a C.K.O. Graduate Course, a pilot group of C.K.O.’s will develop at the same time the strategic roadmaps...

This article reviews developments in the field of applied knowledge management dating from 1990 and argues that a fragmented mosaic of programs and problematics currently exists, at various levels of incompatibility. Using a software product, we map the information space around applied knowledge management as an illustration of this basic fact. We...

Valtech (http://www.valtech.com) is a Paris-based e-business technologies consulting firm, established in 1993. The company was initially structured as a distributor of new information technologies to the French and European market, which secondarily pro- vided training in the use of its products. Valtech now positions itself as a knowledge- transf...

Valtech is a Paris-based consulting firm established in 1993 and devoted to e-business technologies. The company was initially structured as a distributor of new information technologies to the French and European market, which secondarily provided training in the use of its products. Valtech now positions itself as a pure knowledge-transfer firm t...