Competitiveness
Publications “Competitiveness”
Is disruptive innovation only for start-ups?
Where are disruptive innovations being born today, on what continents and in what types of institutions? This book presents an original analysis of patent data covering 12 technological fields, 8...
Beyond liberated companies. An investigation into autonomy and its constraints
This note presents the results of a study devised to improve our understanding of the different practices that aim to encourage employees to be more autonomous in professional communities.
Organization and Skills in the Factory of the Future
The objective of this note is to identify emerging practices to organize work and manage skills in factories that have successfully modernized their production system.
Futures of Industry and Work (FIT2) Chair at Mines ParisTech
Futures of Industry and Work (FIT2) Chair at Mines ParisTech
Voyage into Italy’s industry of the future
This publication is the result of a journey to visit a sample of Italian companies, starting in 2014 and ending in spring 2016.
The industry of the future: Technical progress? Social progress? A Franco-German approach
This note is the synthesis of a series of meetings we did in 2016 and 2017 organized by the Jean Jaurès Foundation, the Friedrich- Ebert Foundation and La Fabrique de l’industrie.
Portraits of workers: understanding the quality of work life
Consensus is growing that business performance can be increased by improving employees’ quality of work life (QWL) through granting them greater autonomy in their...
Rebounding and reinventing: the resilience of mid-market companies
This Note takes the work further and looks at the resilience of these companies, in other words their capacity to stand up to a crisis, sometimes even using it as a springboard to bounce back...
Quality of working life : a source of competitive advantage. Reform the way work is organized
Psychosocial risks, work-related stress, occupational health, quality of working life (QWL), wellbeing and happiness at work. Studies of life at work employ a...
The industry of the future: global competition
Industrial processes, value chains and business models are about to undergo a profound transformation, mostly due to the integration of digital technologies.