Brief management lessons

New management lessons to be learned from Renault's rich Spring project. How can a global company adapt locally while having strategies that enhance its scale? Two steps are key: making pilot projects anchored in the target territory and organising inter-project learning.

How to avoid tensions in a family business? The Ragni company, run by the fourth generation, has put in place a serene management of both the company and the family based on principles that untangle affects and professional issues...

The L'Oréal case shows that a large company can carry out concrete and coherent CSR actions that last over time! The importance of reputation is no doubt not unrelated to the importance given to these actions, coordinated by a dedicated team responsible for involving the whole company. Questioning and learning are among the management lessons of this case.

What management lessons can be learned from the Orpéa scandal? In EHPADs, the major issue is that of proximity management. A rich team life, informal exchanges and spaces for controversy are among the solutions identified by the researcher Damien Collard to improve the working conditions of the staff, and therefore the quality of life and care of the residents...

Some management lessons from a dynamic heritage company. For almost a hundred years, the Ragni family has taken care of its business by valuing its staff, making quality products and developing R&D. Boldness for the future and resilience in the face of crises are among the strengths of well-managed heritage companies...

What management lesson can be drawn from the exemplary success of Cirque du Soleil? We probably don't talk enough about the great originality of its organizational model: for each show, it makes available to a new creator not only its own resources, but also all the innovations that come from elsewhere...

How did a managerial act allow the French swimming team to become ultra-performing overnight? From the questioning of a set of representations, systems were created that valued the swimmers' ability to progress, learning through collective work and the importance of the environment in the achievement of talent. The management lessons from this experience are edifying for the management of high level and performance.

In 2002, Canal+ decided to invest in fiction by taking the opposite direction from the hackneyed codes of the French series. Over the years, the success has been confirmed and some lessons can be drawn from it: the importance of time and the independence of dedicated teams; the acceptance of failure; the will to build a new culture. After renewing the French series, the Création originale of Canal+ must now face international platforms with colossal means...

The adventure of the Spring, a low-cost electric car, is an edifying example of a project conducted in a context of radical uncertainty. It is a management lesson in which the concept of 'innovative development' is asserted, integrating exploration phases into traditional development, allowing unforeseen situations to be managed. This requires special teams, skills, governance and organisation...

A management lesson from the Accor group, which is integrating design into its strategy to deal with the turbulence in the hotel market. In a context where the challenge is to bring back customers with new and variable desires, design makes it possible to play on emotion, to create identities and to reinterrogate codes.

At a time when States are increasingly interfering in the management of innovations, here are some lessons in project management with the example of Chinese "administrative Darwinism", which is not so far removed from the Californian method...

How to get all the stakeholders (institutional, professional, etc.) and even citizens to work together to transform the untransformable health sector: this is the management lesson of the ministerial delegate for digital health, whose transformation project has been accelerated by the Covid-19 epidemic...

How can an institution built around a strong personality continue to exist without that personality? A delicate and universal question posed by the particular case of the Théâtre du Soleil, which is considering its life without its creator, Ariane Mnouchkine, a central figure of the troupe despite a resolutely democratic organisation...

Faced with environmental issues, the transformation of large companies will not only be motivated by ethics: their image, their business and their stock market valuation are at stake! This is why the GAFAMs are embarking on an ambitious and accelerated energy transition... accompanied by ENGIE Impact.

At the crossroads of ecology and social issues, Ecov innovates by supporting local authorities in the creation of an original shared public service: "carpooling lines" provided by citizens to complement public transport networks. A management lesson from a social economy start-up!

Platformisation through the adoption of the market place model in parallel with its own catalogue, creation of subsidiaries to offer other companies (including competitors!) a white label digital platform, a turnkey logistics service, digital marketing services (visibility on the web and e-commerce sites)... Some management lessons from Cdiscount, the number two e-commerce company in France, based on a mastery of technology and an entrepreneurial culture!

To develop its innovation, L'Oréal has chosen to acquire small, efficient structures full of potential. A lesson of fine integrations led by a Chief Integration Officer. 

Far from being incidental, design can be used to influence human behaviour for the better, in various activities and fields. In this respect, it is not so far removed from the art of management...

The circular economy represents a huge organisational and strategic challenge for large companies. Since the 2000s, Groupe SEB has been making bold choices by designing sustainable and repairable products, and by participating in the creation of a new network of repairers...

Knowing how to bring out and support high potentials to (re)build a high-performance team... an innovative managerial tactic from the world of rugby.

A management lesson through the refugee integration programs developed by eachOne, rewarding and beneficial for both the integrated refugees and the companies...

A subsidiary boss who found himself far from the headquarters, with a company banished by the authorities and deserted by its executives, the situation seemed lost. And yet, in three years, he rectified the situation by inventing a raison d'être before the letter.

Banishing rules to achieve a new form of creativity: a management lesson like a breath of fresh air!

The lowering of borders facilitated by digital technology allows large companies to create phoenixes...

Here is an unusual management lesson: that of the catalyst State contacting all actors to develop a rescue plan for a company... 

A lesson in management in a fragile ecosystem, or how a desperate situation gives rise to wildly creative ideas...

How does one manage huge projects while maintaining the creativity and cohesion of teams spread around the world? A producer from Ubisoft gives us a lesson in management that focuses on the small details...

A management lesson can be drawn from the paradoxes of the BBC: a century-old and penniless institution, it remains a model of creativity by being a public service at the service of the public...

In the kitchens of Pixar, ingredients, recipes and brief management lessons for high quality productions: the integration of talent and technology, and unique creative processes...

The Casino group gives us a lesson in rapid and economical transformation, based in particular on the art of using its assets and unequal crossroads between physical and digital...

Pernod Ricard's lesson or the art of "embarking" customers into the world of its brands...

A local management lesson from a non-management professional...

Éric Scotto, co-founder of Akuo Energy, is reinventing entrepreneurship by focusing on long-term economic development in renewable energy. The lessons of an entrepreneur "on a mission"...

A lesson in total innovation led in Africa by an entrepreneur within a large group...