François holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and HDR University Paris Dauphine. It has been HRD for fifteen years in various contexts (public and private, French, Moroccan and American industries and services), always with a strong scientific, technology or innovation dimension. Professor- Researcher at the University Paris Dauphine, he teaches change management and he is Director of four research programs.

Objectives :

Overview of the main approaches and tactics on change, the risks and key success factors; highlighting the specific contexts of public research and private R&D. Initiate a learning of the implementation of these tactics within research context.
This seminar is intended for both the world of public research and of private research. It may involve heads of institutions, R & D managers, laboratory managers, HR, Heads of valuation or innovation, CIOs, etc …

Agenda :

• To change or not to change?
• Stakeholders – Research context specificities
• The complexity of targets
• Targets and change windows
• Designing Change as linear or procedural way?
• Understanding the organizations
• Understanding the managerial context of a research institution
• Avoiding the refractory metaphor
• Enhancing / respecting the autonomy of actors
• Scheduling change
• Analyzing risks in a research context
• Choosing a strategy for change
• Succeeding with a “packaged change”
• Corporate Culture Change?
• Using process redesign as a lever for change?
• Conducting a pre-project
• Communicating
• Supporting, building success
• Educational Methodology

• Interactive approach combining inputs and progressive construction on the realities of each participant
• Work articulating conceptual dimensions,both instrumental and behavioral
• Experience sharing between participants is an important dimension of the seminar