1 except
perhaps the key to innovation
so to illustrate it I’m going
little story we are in 2008 I
ski with my family when I
get a call from xavier
fontanet the president the CEO of
of essilor he said to me here I met
the CEO of nikon and we decided to
create together a research center
which will host essilor researchers
and researchers an icon a center
research to work on
new materials on the
optoelectronics to invent the
work to advance
forgiveness for creating the materials of
tomorrow
good game so we hang and then there everything
suddenly I realize the complexity of this
what does it represent you have on one side
essilor world leader in optics
ophthalmic ophthalmic lenses with
weapons teams and researchers
French who work on
very advanced technologies
you have on the other side nicole one
leaders of photography in particular
with an army of researchers with
clean technologies with researchers
Japanese in Japan and then I’m asked
to mix all that is to invent it
new materials and innovate
me who was looking for a new challenge
me who wanted to put me in danger be
to be once again in a logic a
little bit of new adventures I
been served I think that in terms of
complexity
it was hard to find more more
complicated anyway with with its 7
this equation
well do you figure that this center of
Research has been lived for a while
operated for ten years and was a
great success if I see some of
you who have glasses surely
Essilor glasses
if you think about it they have
Anti-fog anti -fouling functions
scratch they have functions of
pacification and well I’m sure
some of the technologies of this center
research are incorporated into its
teeth his glasses glasses
if we look at the cameras that film 6th
I’m not sure of any goals
nikon I’m sure if it was
there would be two in one technology
from those of this research center
so it was a great success and why
was it a great success this
that I
to share with you is because
finally we could have done very
complex we could have put in place
specific organizations we would have
could put in place procedures on
could have complicated what was already
complicated to make innovation in
a field as technological in
finally adding over and over again
reporting many and many meetings
and opposite the paradox is that
finally for this situation for this
very complicated research center with
two cultures as different one
that the other
well we chose to make clear
to simple and factual reproach
play the proximity
these three words clarity simplifies and
simplicity and closeness that’s what I
would like it would have to be illustrated with with
you right now and that’s where happens
the couch the sofa why because
finally this research center
it was a start up
it was ultimately the best the
best of both worlds the best of
world of the start up
everything had to be created out of nothing
the laboratories the regulation the
rules of procedure find a way to
do the accounts
recruited in the eye of the researchers
of an icon of the researchers of essilor of
French researchers in Japan for for
expand the team so we were
completely in a logic of start
up and finally we had the best of
from the other world of the big world
groups to what we had the back up
financial is also in tank of
researchers staff we had these
two big groups nikon essilor who’s going
worry about it so if you want everything
was perfect for finally
these are advanced research and as one
was in start up mode I told myself
we had a large open space I
am saying let’s put in a corner a
small relaxation area with a coffee maker
with a white board and then with the
sofa like that can be done eventually
in companies as
French and European maybe with a
Western mind I told myself that
it was finally an opportunity to make
a break discuss together
naively because what has happened
past
the first few weeks was pretty enough
laborious then I was not surprised
because I had worked six years in
a Japanese company being the only one
franc non non japanese in a center of
search for 1500 people in
blue sky tracksuit while doing the
gymnastics in the morning at 8:30 so I
knew I knew the difficulty of
shock and finally bring a shock of
cultures
so I was ready I was ready to 7 to
this confrontation this learning
difficult of life together
this mixture of intelligence I was close
I was ready to accept that but I
found that despite all this was happening
badly one of the French researchers told me
it’s amazing how loud it is
when you type on a keyboard my neighbor
Japanese really makes noise so to
one of the little ones of the little ones
details like that when you know
when meetings are held in Japan the
Japanese culture makes one go in
meeting that when we have the consensus
you know meeting is just a way
to show of sharing and consensus a
french going in meeting you understand
for just to appear in the
confrontation gave his opinion and
especially especially out of the meeting
ideally with an opinion but especially
does not agree before that’s all
the issue of the discussion and so that’s
different this was more and more
strong
if I take another example when
you recipe slides of the
powerpoint and you are Japanese eh
well you do a slide you put
all about slides and that’s the person
who will watch to make his way
on the slide it is also valid
finally something else is at the
no one to make his way you
are you French for the same
problematic you’re going to do say slide
and you’re going to funnel get to the
unique solution
that is obvious and who will walk
so here it is by these two little ones
slide meeting examples and well I’m
realized that eventually no one
did not make the effort anyone the whole
world to stay on his his method is
after a few weeks I would say
the hall in the sauce did not take I
I expected but not so much there and
the sofa the sofa finally did not play
not his role there was there is little
coffee breaks in any case the French
were having a coffee together the Japanese
did not do it
So it did not work and then comes
the revelation there will be a miracle after
it happened to me a revelation I
discuss with a Japanese researcher and I
tell him but why is it
you do not live in nikon
in the research center why is
what we do not visit nikon people
they were born in Tokyo they are they are at
side for what they do not come
not he thinks a little bit he is
how to tell me he said shimon san
in fact it’s because of the sofa I do not know
if you see why because the sofa
sakho of inactivity sakho as soon as
sakho sakho break moment
precisely the opposite of work and to
japan in japan we work after the
gymnastics 8:35
at 22h in Japan is the country in the world where
you have to show that you have to work
to be the most in front of your screen you have to
most strongly show
we are involved when before
colleagues
colleagues say in any case the
samares ie yes you leave you have to
to be well tired for the excuse of
leave before before before others
for five years so we restore this
work because we have to stay at
work that’s important is to review and
I put in the middle of the fate of
the open space has me a sofa that code the
no work and and that’s what missed failed
so I understand the revelation is there
percent of course I should have known
I finally have me who wanted to create
a good month agreement the
responsibility of a boss of the center and
his boss of the center was vain to create
this this fusion obviously I had
I put in the middle a wart
the finally the object who was who
who should who bows with as
function for the Japanese that from them
finally stop being comfortable
and then the day of the inauguration of the
center arrives with its fontanes view and
was present and sir cariat the
boss of nikon arrives early and
come to visit the research center
and then they wanted to watch again
his speech he feels his paper and whose
a coffee and what happens he sits down
on the sofa and well I can tell you
that from that moment the sofa has
been a revolution the sofa was one
keys if not the key to innovation the
key to the success of the research center
nikon essilor all researchers from
nikon japanese felt
allowed to have a strong sense of that
boss’s sofa
of course she had done that so
been for me a key moment was you
have understood the miracle from this
moment there and well finally what
happened it was again
quite magical because the problem
meetings been resolved because
finally we ended up at 5 10 15 20
around the sofa the Japanese
felt like they were
consensus again to discuss with us
the French were there since
was not in meeting and the Japanese
were not self-conscious and
French give their opinion we were dense
is also French confrontation
positive so eventually the meeting gets
did neither Japanese fashion nor the
French fashion around this sofa and we have
advanced like that we solved some
problems saw no slide why
have slides if you have so much sofa
written on the whiteboard our ideas in
advance everyone expresses with his words with
his hands in English or with it’s
especially with his hands the
issues
that’s finally finally around this
sofa it was simple we were close the
proximity there the mixture again
it’s smart to be these facts and
then finally clarity what is this
that I forgot to tell you is that
finally the mission of this center of
research might seem
may be sometimes complicated to some
but sitting down the act of
two finally expressed by words
simple why we were there
that’s what it gave a kind of map
is to us and to our mission we have to
moment there was an entity we recently
the creat is really really the center
nikon search and so still running
once clarity simplicity closeness game
I see him through a roof always at
through this sofa and finally in
other experiences I tried to
think about what what in my
course resulted in the use of
oc 3 is pretty 3 3 words and I’m
realized that sometimes but we
could not do everything
I was work and so before
for an equivalent of procter & gamble
Asian cao cao corporation and in
Germany
and precisely I was responsible for the
applied research of chaos in
germany so if you want I was a
French who represented the corporate
japanese in germany so speaking in
English with the Japanese and the
Germans so obstacles and game in
terms of organization here again we were
in complexity and this time
we could not simplify the logic
simplification was not there because
the organization was like here
and finally playing on the clarity in
playing on the fact that at every meeting
and that’s very Japanese at every
meeting
the five pillars of the innovation of the
group are are displayed are recalled
the alignment and ultimately effect to
every time forced and forced sometimes
but been done the fact that proximity
the proximity of the teams but the
proximity to the consumer
the fact that finally we speak the same
language between us because we
was based on the oceans sion of
clear consumer data data
at finally allowed tomorrow ‘s
finally to succeed in in
innovation projects a feint of
japanese washing her hair
once a day explained to my
Japanese colleagues that a woman
German or French will wash themselves
hair
once every two days once
just once every three days it
may seem ultimately harmless but
but you imagine that in the
cosmetic that’s amazing impact on the
formulation and share this
know her share this
information this is an example that I
gives finally allowed dresde
Valade tighten ties in the team
and work on on due again a
times factual data in a
other experience there we are in the
seb group
this time in terms of organization
and we had the wish to
simplify the organization in any case
on some very specific projects
of innovation and we created so we created
a similar one so we take the words the
key words fablab do it yourself design
thinking makers
we mix everything and we create one
entity a laboratory that in very way
fast
again in a logic of
hacking allowed and allows for
we saw it also earlier a hall
went faster to go faster and
to federate teams the big
simplicity of what is this
to take care about blog it was 2 a
added proximity in teams and
to conclude what I can share
with you is that finally we
in the field of business
of political action finally everywhere eh
well we can always have his little
sofa with care we can always tell ourselves
how commander world in my project
in my my goal how is that
I can bring more clarity to the
teams for the for the leader for
for my communication how does that
I can be simpler in in
the modes of operation in
the organization is never enough
simple and in the same way we are
never close enough so again
my game I invite you to demonstrate
more clarity and
simplicity and proximity
thank you
[Applause]
perhaps the key to innovation
so to illustrate it I’m going
little story we are in 2008 I
ski with my family when I
get a call from xavier
fontanet the president the CEO of
of essilor he said to me here I met
the CEO of nikon and we decided to
create together a research center
which will host essilor researchers
and researchers an icon a center
research to work on
new materials on the
optoelectronics to invent the
work to advance
forgiveness for creating the materials of
tomorrow
good game so we hang and then there everything
suddenly I realize the complexity of this
what does it represent you have on one side
essilor world leader in optics
ophthalmic ophthalmic lenses with
weapons teams and researchers
French who work on
very advanced technologies
you have on the other side nicole one
leaders of photography in particular
with an army of researchers with
clean technologies with researchers
Japanese in Japan and then I’m asked
to mix all that is to invent it
new materials and innovate
me who was looking for a new challenge
me who wanted to put me in danger be
to be once again in a logic a
little bit of new adventures I
been served I think that in terms of
complexity
it was hard to find more more
complicated anyway with with its 7
this equation
well do you figure that this center of
Research has been lived for a while
operated for ten years and was a
great success if I see some of
you who have glasses surely
Essilor glasses
if you think about it they have
Anti-fog anti -fouling functions
scratch they have functions of
pacification and well I’m sure
some of the technologies of this center
research are incorporated into its
teeth his glasses glasses
if we look at the cameras that film 6th
I’m not sure of any goals
nikon I’m sure if it was
there would be two in one technology
from those of this research center
so it was a great success and why
was it a great success this
that I
to share with you is because
finally we could have done very
complex we could have put in place
specific organizations we would have
could put in place procedures on
could have complicated what was already
complicated to make innovation in
a field as technological in
finally adding over and over again
reporting many and many meetings
and opposite the paradox is that
finally for this situation for this
very complicated research center with
two cultures as different one
that the other
well we chose to make clear
to simple and factual reproach
play the proximity
these three words clarity simplifies and
simplicity and closeness that’s what I
would like it would have to be illustrated with with
you right now and that’s where happens
the couch the sofa why because
finally this research center
it was a start up
it was ultimately the best the
best of both worlds the best of
world of the start up
everything had to be created out of nothing
the laboratories the regulation the
rules of procedure find a way to
do the accounts
recruited in the eye of the researchers
of an icon of the researchers of essilor of
French researchers in Japan for for
expand the team so we were
completely in a logic of start
up and finally we had the best of
from the other world of the big world
groups to what we had the back up
financial is also in tank of
researchers staff we had these
two big groups nikon essilor who’s going
worry about it so if you want everything
was perfect for finally
these are advanced research and as one
was in start up mode I told myself
we had a large open space I
am saying let’s put in a corner a
small relaxation area with a coffee maker
with a white board and then with the
sofa like that can be done eventually
in companies as
French and European maybe with a
Western mind I told myself that
it was finally an opportunity to make
a break discuss together
naively because what has happened
past
the first few weeks was pretty enough
laborious then I was not surprised
because I had worked six years in
a Japanese company being the only one
franc non non japanese in a center of
search for 1500 people in
blue sky tracksuit while doing the
gymnastics in the morning at 8:30 so I
knew I knew the difficulty of
shock and finally bring a shock of
cultures
so I was ready I was ready to 7 to
this confrontation this learning
difficult of life together
this mixture of intelligence I was close
I was ready to accept that but I
found that despite all this was happening
badly one of the French researchers told me
it’s amazing how loud it is
when you type on a keyboard my neighbor
Japanese really makes noise so to
one of the little ones of the little ones
details like that when you know
when meetings are held in Japan the
Japanese culture makes one go in
meeting that when we have the consensus
you know meeting is just a way
to show of sharing and consensus a
french going in meeting you understand
for just to appear in the
confrontation gave his opinion and
especially especially out of the meeting
ideally with an opinion but especially
does not agree before that’s all
the issue of the discussion and so that’s
different this was more and more
strong
if I take another example when
you recipe slides of the
powerpoint and you are Japanese eh
well you do a slide you put
all about slides and that’s the person
who will watch to make his way
on the slide it is also valid
finally something else is at the
no one to make his way you
are you French for the same
problematic you’re going to do say slide
and you’re going to funnel get to the
unique solution
that is obvious and who will walk
so here it is by these two little ones
slide meeting examples and well I’m
realized that eventually no one
did not make the effort anyone the whole
world to stay on his his method is
after a few weeks I would say
the hall in the sauce did not take I
I expected but not so much there and
the sofa the sofa finally did not play
not his role there was there is little
coffee breaks in any case the French
were having a coffee together the Japanese
did not do it
So it did not work and then comes
the revelation there will be a miracle after
it happened to me a revelation I
discuss with a Japanese researcher and I
tell him but why is it
you do not live in nikon
in the research center why is
what we do not visit nikon people
they were born in Tokyo they are they are at
side for what they do not come
not he thinks a little bit he is
how to tell me he said shimon san
in fact it’s because of the sofa I do not know
if you see why because the sofa
sakho of inactivity sakho as soon as
sakho sakho break moment
precisely the opposite of work and to
japan in japan we work after the
gymnastics 8:35
at 22h in Japan is the country in the world where
you have to show that you have to work
to be the most in front of your screen you have to
most strongly show
we are involved when before
colleagues
colleagues say in any case the
samares ie yes you leave you have to
to be well tired for the excuse of
leave before before before others
for five years so we restore this
work because we have to stay at
work that’s important is to review and
I put in the middle of the fate of
the open space has me a sofa that code the
no work and and that’s what missed failed
so I understand the revelation is there
percent of course I should have known
I finally have me who wanted to create
a good month agreement the
responsibility of a boss of the center and
his boss of the center was vain to create
this this fusion obviously I had
I put in the middle a wart
the finally the object who was who
who should who bows with as
function for the Japanese that from them
finally stop being comfortable
and then the day of the inauguration of the
center arrives with its fontanes view and
was present and sir cariat the
boss of nikon arrives early and
come to visit the research center
and then they wanted to watch again
his speech he feels his paper and whose
a coffee and what happens he sits down
on the sofa and well I can tell you
that from that moment the sofa has
been a revolution the sofa was one
keys if not the key to innovation the
key to the success of the research center
nikon essilor all researchers from
nikon japanese felt
allowed to have a strong sense of that
boss’s sofa
of course she had done that so
been for me a key moment was you
have understood the miracle from this
moment there and well finally what
happened it was again
quite magical because the problem
meetings been resolved because
finally we ended up at 5 10 15 20
around the sofa the Japanese
felt like they were
consensus again to discuss with us
the French were there since
was not in meeting and the Japanese
were not self-conscious and
French give their opinion we were dense
is also French confrontation
positive so eventually the meeting gets
did neither Japanese fashion nor the
French fashion around this sofa and we have
advanced like that we solved some
problems saw no slide why
have slides if you have so much sofa
written on the whiteboard our ideas in
advance everyone expresses with his words with
his hands in English or with it’s
especially with his hands the
issues
that’s finally finally around this
sofa it was simple we were close the
proximity there the mixture again
it’s smart to be these facts and
then finally clarity what is this
that I forgot to tell you is that
finally the mission of this center of
research might seem
may be sometimes complicated to some
but sitting down the act of
two finally expressed by words
simple why we were there
that’s what it gave a kind of map
is to us and to our mission we have to
moment there was an entity we recently
the creat is really really the center
nikon search and so still running
once clarity simplicity closeness game
I see him through a roof always at
through this sofa and finally in
other experiences I tried to
think about what what in my
course resulted in the use of
oc 3 is pretty 3 3 words and I’m
realized that sometimes but we
could not do everything
I was work and so before
for an equivalent of procter & gamble
Asian cao cao corporation and in
Germany
and precisely I was responsible for the
applied research of chaos in
germany so if you want I was a
French who represented the corporate
japanese in germany so speaking in
English with the Japanese and the
Germans so obstacles and game in
terms of organization here again we were
in complexity and this time
we could not simplify the logic
simplification was not there because
the organization was like here
and finally playing on the clarity in
playing on the fact that at every meeting
and that’s very Japanese at every
meeting
the five pillars of the innovation of the
group are are displayed are recalled
the alignment and ultimately effect to
every time forced and forced sometimes
but been done the fact that proximity
the proximity of the teams but the
proximity to the consumer
the fact that finally we speak the same
language between us because we
was based on the oceans sion of
clear consumer data data
at finally allowed tomorrow ‘s
finally to succeed in in
innovation projects a feint of
japanese washing her hair
once a day explained to my
Japanese colleagues that a woman
German or French will wash themselves
hair
once every two days once
just once every three days it
may seem ultimately harmless but
but you imagine that in the
cosmetic that’s amazing impact on the
formulation and share this
know her share this
information this is an example that I
gives finally allowed dresde
Valade tighten ties in the team
and work on on due again a
times factual data in a
other experience there we are in the
seb group
this time in terms of organization
and we had the wish to
simplify the organization in any case
on some very specific projects
of innovation and we created so we created
a similar one so we take the words the
key words fablab do it yourself design
thinking makers
we mix everything and we create one
entity a laboratory that in very way
fast
again in a logic of
hacking allowed and allows for
we saw it also earlier a hall
went faster to go faster and
to federate teams the big
simplicity of what is this
to take care about blog it was 2 a
added proximity in teams and
to conclude what I can share
with you is that finally we
in the field of business
of political action finally everywhere eh
well we can always have his little
sofa with care we can always tell ourselves
how commander world in my project
in my my goal how is that
I can bring more clarity to the
teams for the for the leader for
for my communication how does that
I can be simpler in in
the modes of operation in
the organization is never enough
simple and in the same way we are
never close enough so again
my game I invite you to demonstrate
more clarity and
simplicity and proximity
thank you
[Applause]
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