Founders/Successors: mastering the handover
Founders/Successors: mastering the handover During MBO and MBI transactions, the selling founder is often asked to support the new team, or even to reinvest financially. The entrepreneur is thus facing a new situation, requiring him to rethink its role and positioning within the organization. Finding the right balance between sharing experience and respecting the successor’s […]
Responsible Procurement – Towards a new horizon of opportunity
Responsible Procurement – Towards a new horizon of opportunity In a world where sustainability has become an essential element of performance, companies of all sizes need to reassess their sourcing strategies. The adoption of responsible procurement practices seems to be a natural response, not only to meet environmental requirements such as carbon emissions reduction, particularly […]
Clearing the path through labels and certifications
Clearing the path through labels and certifications The increasing prominence of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) issues, particularly environmental concerns, has led to the emergence of numerous labels and certifications. Facing the abundance and diversity of available options, both companies and their shareholders may feel disoriented, as ESG performance and its measurement are becoming key […]
Traffic jams
Traffic jams At the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 health crisis challenged our transversal and connected vision of the world, and revealed the fragility of local economies in the face of global logistical dysfunction. In the midst of the pandemic, the clumsy maneuvering of a container ship’s crew in the face of a sandstorm in […]
The choice of Responsible Growth
The choise of Responsible Growth In 2011, Porter and Kramer proposed a paradigm shift regarding Social and Environmental Responsibility: With the introduction of the concept of Shared Value Creation, CSR could be considered not as an artificial constraint disconnected from the company’s growth and profitability objectives, but as a factor of competitiveness, with the company […]
Semeurs d’avenir
Semeurs d’avenir We devoted most of our spring newsletter to SME managers facing the effects of the health crisis. Six months later, our standalone edition appears at a time when the many announcements on new vaccines demonstrates the extraordinary capacity of scientific research, supported by an unprecedented mobilization of public and private funds, to accelerate, […]
Managers on the front line
Managers on the front line Historians and sociologists of the future will certainly look closely at 2020, the year in which the world came to a voluntary halt in an attempt to stop the spread of a virus whose deadly course was shaping up to be potentially devastating. They will wonder about the proportionality between […]
The employer brand, a strategic challenge for SMEs
The employer brand, a strategic challenge for SMEs 232,000: that is the number of people that engineering and technology consulting (ETC)companies and digital services companies will have to recruit over the next ten years(source: Katalyse and DConsultants). Quite a high number, since French ETC and digitalservices companies currently employ around 330,000 people. This means recruitment […]
Sales Efficiency: a major growth driver for SME’s
Sales Efficiency: a major growth driver for SME’s While the rising awareness on sustainable development has opened a debate on the virtues of economic growth, it remains a primary concern for companies and their shareholders as key source of value creation. In this context, financial investors first aim to support their portfolio companies in their […]
Human Capital at the heart of company transformations
Human Capital at the heart of company transformations In the style of Jean Gabin who explained that a good film is first of all a good story, then a good story and finally, a good story, a financial investor could claim that the success of a private equity transaction is first about good management, then […]