Mathematical prodigy and gifted programmer, Richard Stallman is the initiator of the free software movement, software that is technically and legally free for others to use, study, modify and duplicate for distribution. The development of free software from the 1980s onwards changed the way we think about the use of computers.
Read MoreD’une certaine manière, la crise du COVID-19 a été un excellent outil de passage aux rayons X de l’ensemble de l’économie française. Il y avait ceux qui y arrivaient et ceux qui n’y arrivaient que péniblement. Au sein des entreprises tertiaires, certaines sont parvenues à faire travailler leurs salariés de chez eux tandis que d’autres, dont des administrations publiques, ont eu toutes les peines du monde à mettre cela en place.
Read MorePaul Kennedy, a historian fascinated by the conditions that lead to wars as well as those that put an end to them, has devoted almost his entire career to this subject. He also seeks to understand why some nations manage to develop while others find it difficult.
Read MoreDigital technology has profoundly affected our lifestyles: communicational and societal changes, new thought patterns, perceptions, new ways to build our inner circle, new means of production… The spectrum is wild and not limited to technology. To encourage discussion about our relationship to digital and induce awareness of its vast political issues, the National digital council published Digital Civilization. Let's open the debate!
Read MoreAmong the grievances that we bring to digital, that of the environmental consequences of e-commerce comes up chronically. Recently, several works, including Oliver Wyman's study entitled "Is e-commerce good for Europe" provide interesting information on this subject.
Read MoreIn recent months, greenhouse gas emissions from digital technologies have taken an important place in the media, in particular due to the publication of reports with explosive conclusions. Thus, the reports of the Shift Project and the High Council for the Climate both mentioned a significant increase in the environmental externalities of digital technology. While these figures have been the subject of significant controversy (see below), they have had the merit of showing how much this subject remains largely unknown.
Read MoreWhy would one read a fiction if reality is even more stupefying? That feeling has been shared by those who, like myself, read Sandworm: being destabilized by the extent taken by cyberwarfare in interstate conflicts, by the blatant weakness of some of the most essential economic systems such as energy plants, distribution networks, postal system, food supply chain, railroad network.
Read MoreThe 2021 Mid-cap Companies Digital Transformation carried out by EY and APAX Partners, in collaboration with the METI (mid-cap companies movement) and under the patronnage of Gilles Babinet focuses on the perception and stage of mid-cap companies' digital transformation.
Read MoreThis book is devoted to the art of the breakthrough in economics: what are the most remarkable characteristics of today's innovators, especially in the digital sector? It is mainly the ability to adopt disruptive thinking and to consider the value chain from unexpected and innovative angles. It is impossible to understand the digital revolution facing us without opening this book.
Read MoreOf course we hear everywhere about the data revolution. For most of us, it is difficult to really understand why it is possible to extract large amounts of intelligence from data. Nate Silver is extraordinary in that he illustrates with particular simplicity how statistics can work miracles and help us understand our world better. In fact, this book is not about Bigdata or technology, but statistics.
Read MoreThis book might be amongst the top five I ever read about digital transformation. What is so special in it is that it cover especially well the connection in between digital transformation - culture, technology, governance, IT architecture and ‘platformization' in one hand and AI on the other. It points out the fact that, if some corporations could have the impression that they were transformed without changing they core organization, that would no longer work with the AI revolution.
Read MoreIn a disruptive economy, where digital technology is now predominant, innovation must not be done in the same way. In the age of open data, we need to make way for open innovation, or how to revolutionize the enterprise and its management by calling on the millions of individuals who make up the market, and who offer so much potential for innovation and growth.
Read MoreThis book is devoted to the art of the breakthrough in economics: what are the most remarkable characteristics of today's innovators, especially in the digital sector? It is mainly the ability to adopt disruptive thinking and to consider the value chain from unexpected and innovative angles. It is impossible to understand the digital revolution facing us without opening this book.
Read MoreGathering testimonies from Huawei's first employees, the book is captivating for what these stories evoke: stories of employees dedicated to their company to the point of accepting to be poorly fed or housed in obscure representative offices located in the most unlikely places of the world.
Read MoreIf this is not THE book to read for those seeking to understand the keys to the success of the American innovation model, it is nevertheless difficult to find better. The book retraces the entire history of Silicon Valley, starting at the beginning, that is to say, the mythical times, those of the founding of Stanford, then the Los Alamos project and Caltech.
Read MoreYou think co-creation is a sub-division of digital? Well this book will invite you to think the opposite! Co-creation is one of the most important forces of the digital world, and we have the right to wonder if it will one day supplant e-commerce with its potential for value. Its springs are explained here in detail, from the simplest platforms, such as Wikipedia, to the most sophisticated ones, and by evoking the social entrepreneurship that is largely inspired by it.
Read MoreYou may have heard the words “Scrum”, “Devops”, “Agile”. These are aspects of this breakthrough innovation. Hierarchy is no longer valid. When workers can be synchronized in a way that everyone knows what others are doing, this represents a productivity gain. The cost of hierarchy amounted to 30 percent of an organization in the 20th century. Companies can be much faster if this is removed. We must be able to organize workers so that they can synchronize themselves with each other.
Read MoreOne of the most fascinating aspects of Silicon Valley is the counterculture that encourages boldness, adventurism and crossing the yellow line. It is not audacious to believe that both Kerouac and Elon Musk felt moved by this force to embark on their own adventures, as diametrically opposed as they may be to each other.
Read MoreDigital transformation is marking time in French companies. Many CAC40 CEOs complain of a lack of visible results to motivate teams, while at the same time worrying about the significant amounts invested in this area. Moreover, in several sectors, such as distribution or the automotive industry, their competitors are making giant strides, which does not reassure their shareholders or employees and does not make it easier to deal with the issue calmly.
Read MoreIf there was only one book to read this year in the field of technology, it could well be this one; and so what a pity that this work has no French translation! For many of our elites, especially those who don't speak English, it would have been salvation as it details with a great pedagogy the technological, economic, social, metaphysical, geostrategic stakes involved in the rise of this discipline; and the term rise in power seems almost weak as it is a coming upheaval.
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