Altran : How to outsource innovation

• Michel FRIEDLANDER
  Managing Director, Altran ; President of the Altran Fondation for innovation
  

Summary

For more than twenty years, the Altran group has managed to keep its role of advisor in the field of innovation in the scientific and technological domain intact, as well as its wish to stay very close to the areas in question in order to maximise its efficiency. Most of its sixteen thousand five hundred employees are trained engineers. The subsidiaries of the group, which are grouped into geographical regions throughout the world, choose their own sectors of activity. Their engineers are entirely free to decide to implement their innovations in whatever area they deem necessary. This decentralised model owes its unquestionable success to its autonomy, and to local initiative when it relates to innovation. It will be subject to the implementation of and the conformity to strict rules regarding management, especially since the group, which is already the leading European advisor in scientific and technological innovation, has confirmed its ambition to become the world leader.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Lucien CLAES.

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The entire article appears in French in the Journal de l'École de Paris du management N° 47.