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Club Time
Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Within the framework of the manifestation MINATEC CROSSROADS'08 : Workshop MATRI about "The anticipation of competences within the framework of innovative projects"
    Presentation of results of MATRI project: teachings from actions of anticipation set up by two enterprises - STMicroelectronics et Capgemini - to reinforce the competences of their collaborators in the development of new products and services.
    Presentation of the intermediary results of the project  "Key factors of competitivity of the cluster MINALOGIC": actions to proceed to the anticipation of requested competences in the SMEs engaged in the R&D collaborative projects.
    1st Round table about the mutualisation of competences and new ways of co-operation between large and small enterprises in the regional territory.
    2nd Round table about the practices in Europe and US : "Comparative approaches to competence anticipation and territorial embeddedness in Europe and in US".

 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Club Time
Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Human capital and value creation:  ' How to anticipate the evolution of individual and collective competences? Methods and practices of large enterprises. How local partners can contribute to the increase of the process? Toward a common referential? (MATRI project) - Announcement about the start of the project with the French Ministry of Economy, Finances and Employment about 'Two key processes for the success of MINALOGIC' - Round table on: "How to manage the Human Capital of the enterprises and R&D laboratories to change it in concurrential advantage? Role of high teaching, State and Public Collectivities'.
  • Workshop Economy during the '20th Entretiens Jacques Cartier' in the 'Maison des Micro-Nano Technologies' of MINATEC : 'History of industrial sectors and prospective' - Round-table: 'Will the business model of these industries be modified with the nanotechnologies ?"
  • 2nd 'Rencontres Territoires & Innovations' - Round table on : 'Public Management and private management: new frontiers, new ways' - Round table on: "Mutation of competences: mobility, new tendancies and new jobs'.

2006 |2005 |2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Club Time
Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Development of innovative projects with high potenti'ality and private financing
  • Round-Table on the them : "Towards a new paradigm for R&D" during MINATEC CROSSROADS (MINATEC's inauguration)
  • What kind of governance for the competitivity centres and clusters? Benchmark between Grenoble-Lyon / Birmingham
  • The innovation: regulated concept vs innovative concept - Concepts and Round-Table

2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Club Time
Subjects discussed this year included:

  • The Client : an oft ignored strategic actor. Best practices, challenges and evolutions of Customer Capital Management
  • Districts, Cluster and et Poles of competitivity.
  • Territoires & Innovation Conference

2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Club Time
Subjects discussed this year included:

  • 20th anniversary of Grenoble Ecole de Management and the Centre TIME's 10th anniversary - "Grenoble Ecole de Management and its business partners" : Tomorrow's management? The evolution of business according to Darwinian theory.

  • Outsourcing - off-shoring - on-shoring
  • E-Government - France-Quebec look at challenges and achievements.

2003 | 2002 | 2001| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Club Time
Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Yesterday: Office service. Today: Computing on demand – A solution for the flexibility of the enterprises in a globalized economy?
  • Sustainable development and social responsibility of businesses – Players, practices and projects in the Grenoble region.

  • Team coaching in an R&D environment.

2003 | 2002 | 2001| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Club Time*
Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Customer satisfaction: myth or reality.

  • The adaptable enterprise.

  • E-learning.

  • MINATEC – The challenges of research in nanotechnologies.

*The TIME SME and LF clubs were regrouped into one club, the Club TIME.

2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995
Time SME (Small and Medium-sized Entreprises)
Subjects discussed this year included:
  • Managing innovation in SMEs and in small manufacturers.
  • Management tools and information systems in small manufacturers.
  • Evaluating the industrial value of small manufacturers for Directors and Shareholders
Time LF (Large Firms)
Subjects discussed this year included:
  • 9/11: New economy? Possible impact of recent events on the economy.
  • CRM or Customer Relationship Management.

2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995
Time SME (Small and Medium-sized Entreprises)
In 2000, the Club TIME-SME allowed directors to not only participate in the discussions but also to contribute in proposing recommendations and lines of thought on the year's strategic theme: "Attitudes, skills and know-how needed to manage new businesses in a changing context."

Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Action Plan 2000: a programmed change, working plan and choice of themes.
  • Managing new relationships between employees and managers in SMEs.

2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995
Time SME (Small and Medium-sized Entreprises)
1999's theme for the Club TIME-SME was around management (strategy, prospection and people management).

Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Strategy in a high-tech business and the benefits of prospection: Grenoble Ecole de Management, ONOMA, BERAUD.
  • Coherence between the themes and methods of modern management in a rapidly evolving context: TIME.
  • Benefits of ERP software packages in SMEs. Does the SAP effect exist?: YOB, SIREF.
  • Managing international commercial networks in the SME: DIGIGRAM.
  • The future of Total Quality Management in SMEs: ADS Management.
Time LF (Large Firms)
1999's theme was the management of technology, skills and people.

Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Strategic management of technology and skills, by Jean-Pierre SIRIEYS (Cabinet DIDESYS).
  • Knowledge management. A tool: the knowledge tree, by Richard COLLIN (Société TRIVIUM), Yves MAHE (XEROX Research Center Europe), Roger BEVAND et Michel CASTAN (EDF/GDF Mission Régionale IM/SFP).
  • Managing Innovation: Strategy and marketing of innovation = New managers => New businesses => New technologies => New products, by Paul MILLIER (EM Lyon), avec des témoignages de Andrea CUOMO (ST Microelectronics Genève), Christophe BERTHAUD (Groupe SWATCH).
  • Round table discussion on "The key success factors for startups" with representatives of sufficiently developed startups (Jean-Michel KARAM - MEMSCAP, Jean-Michel LAMURE - SOITEC and Daniel PILAUD - POLYSPACE Technologies), representatives from seed funds (Philippe CAPDEVIELLE  - EMERTEC Gestion and Eric HARLE - I-SOURCE Gestion) and a specialist from Grenoble Ecole de Management who presented a recap of work done in this area (François THERIN - Center for Techno-Entrepreneurship).
  • Manager coaching, by Chantal LEBRUN (specialist in Human Resources and coach for 'Managers de Grands Groupes Industriels'), testimonial provided by Yves TERLE (ARS Longa Conseil).
  • Management of Technology: the impact of technology on managing people.

2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

Time SME (Small and Medium-sized Entreprises)
In 1998, the TIME SME Club dealt with innovation and e-commerce.

Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Cooperation and technological alliances : BULL SA
  • Marketing Innovations : INOVACTION
  • Innovation and the technological platform
  • Increasing the experience curve and selling adapted products.

Time LF (Large Firms)
In 1998, the TIME Club sessions were devoted to the theme of "A Communicating Company", particularly on the development of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies).

Subjects discussed this year included:

  • 4th Anniversary of the TIME Center: results and prospects, with G. Grunberg
  • Knowledge Management
  • Key factors of success and failure of start-ups in the service sector
  • Vision of the impact of the New Technologies of Information and Communication on a business
  • Technological Forecasting

2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995
Time SME (Small and Medium-sized Entreprises)
In 1997, the TIME SME Club perfected the theme: "Developing technological competences".

Subjects discussed this year included:

  • The new forms taken by the Client / Supplier partnership : "partnering" : CREDO / Grenoble Ecole de Management, Schneider Group, SCI
  • Technological and competitive monitoring : Arist Rhône-Alpes, Hewlett-Packard, CEA
  • The industrialization function : Albora, Acteam
  • Innovation is not a matter of chance : TIME, Raymond, Getris Image
  • Acquisition, development of loyalty and implication of the key competences in SMEs : Grenoble Ecole de Management
  • The qualities and behavior of the project manager : Schneider Electric

Within the framework of the European programs conducted by the TIME Center, new self-assessment tools were tested on companies (members of the Club), before being extended to other company networks.

Time LF (Large Firms)
In 1997, the Club members decided to keep on working on the theme "A Communicating Company" (this theme was also developed in two separate Grenoble Ecole de Management programs, including a specialized Master Degree).

Subjects discussed this year included:

  • capitalization of a company's knowledge : Xerox
  • Personal management of technical skills : CM International Group
  • Innovation : key factors of success of innovation in technological start-ups and in large businesses : brainstorming : Cegetel, SFR, Pixtech, Gemplus, Silmag, Soitec
  • A citizenship-orientated company : INPG (College of engineering) and Grenoble Ecole de Management.
  • Working in collaboration, or How to manage information as a resource : Alma

2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995
Time SME (Small and Medium-sized Entreprises)
In 1996, the Club continued to work on the theme of "Developing technological competences".

Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Managing new development projects
  • Selling new products with a strong added value
  • Financing technological activities
  • The contributions of the new information technologies

Various sessions devoted to the self-assessment of technological competences were held, as was done in 1995, so as to encourage new companies to join the TIME SME Club.

Time LF (Large Firms)
In 1996, the Club members continued to work on the theme of "A Communicating Company".

Subjects discussed this year included:

  • Economic Intelligence
  • Integrated systems of management
  • Innovation and creation : technological start-ups (Silmag, Ilog)
  • Security : architecture and concepts
  • Collective intelligence and virtuality

2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995
Time SME (Small and Medium-sized Entreprises)
In 1995, TIME SME enabled approximately 50 companies to self-diagnose their technological competences.

This led to the constitution of a club which rallies to this day 20 companies whose managers wish to go deeper into the initial diagnoses.

The sessions enabled the Club members to :

  • distinguish the key processes of the company, which are the source of competitive advantages
  • bring to the fore the technologies and competences : knowledge and know-how, that the company must acquire.
Time LF (Large Firms)
In 1995, TIME LF conducted its work on the theme of " A Communicating Company".

During five sessions, the following subjects were taken up :

  • Technical and economic prospects of microelectronics : SGS-Thomson
  • The stakes of information highways and the development of the Web : INRIA
  • Uses of smart cards in an information society : Gemplus
  • Sourcing : Teaming
  • Cooperation or competition when facing innovation : Grenoble Ecole de Management

  • Early implication of suppliers in the development of new products : Xerox

  • Conducting R&D between public and industrial labs : SGS-Thomson / Gressi

  • R&D in cooperation between competitors : Bull / IBM

  • The European financing of R&D projects : Schneider Electric