What information system for the lean company?

What information system for the lean com...

Pierre Delort will present the outcome of the study “What IS for the lean company” the CIGREF recently produced. CIGREF brings together 130 French companies and organisations from all sectors with three aims: bring together major companies using information systems, to support CIOs in their jobs and develop a long-term vision of the impact of information systems and technologies on the enterprise, the economy and the society at large. Through this report, the association looks into the benefits of lean management applied to the information systems, it presents...
From concept to social impact (and cash): a lean startup in the financial world

From concept to social impact (and cash)...

We developped and launched an innovative crowdfunding platform based on 0% loans within 6 months time. hellomerci.com, borrow from those who care, helps people with personal or entrepreneurial projects get loans and energy from their community and the people. How a 4-people team has built and is now running such a complex system? How we managed (and sometimes failed) to connect a highly productive team with a much slower external environment? What are the cultural conflicts that arise when people with a “minimum marketable feature” vision meet people with an...
Pierre Pezziardi, Hello Merci

Pierre Pezziardi, Hello Merci

Entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker. Pierre advocates the idea of “convivial computing”: systems aimed at empowering people, opening up pyramidal organizations and supporting self-organized teams. He is OCTO Technology co-founder, a leading IT consulting firm in France, and originated the USI conference, gathering since 2008 a community of leaders in large corporate Information Systems. He founded Octopus Microfinance, now the leading Open Source Platform for the microfinance industry. Octopus is a worldwide community of practitioners in Lean and Agile...
Karim Aouadi, BG2AA

Karim Aouadi, BG2AA

Karim Aouadi had worked for several leading consulting companies in agility and performance, when he decided to put in practice his Agile and lean expertise as an entrepreneur in order to design business management services in the cloud suitable for small and medium-sized firms. He co-founded BG2AA, a technology company utilizing the cloud for manufacturing ambitious engineering projects as Printing and Design 3D or eCommerce software and platform.