AMBITION2020 :
WHAT A JOURNEY !
#1 INNOVATION
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A few months before the end of 2020, it's time to take stock of our AMBITION2020 plan which was launched in 2016.
We didn't get the results we expected because of COVID, even though we were in line with the ambitious objective set at the beginning of the plan. I'm confident that we'll get back on track in no time. Beyond financial figures, I am very proud of the progress made by LACROIX Group since 2016. Our goal was to transform the company in 3 complementary and inseparable areas: innovation, digitisation and the freeing up of energy.
To illustrate this, we would like to share a series of newsletters with you. This way we can all take a look at the scale of our transformation and the new breeze blowing through the LACROIX Group, its business sectors and its sites, in line with our values of boldness, openness, commitment and team spirit. Respect!
Let's keep it up, the future is full of potential!
Vincent BEDOUIN
President & CEO
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Editorial by Stéphane Gervais, Executive VP, Strategic Innovation
When I joined LACROIX Group as Director of Strategic Innovation in December 2014, the company reached a significant degree of mastery of its expertise. But this level of know-how was both an advantage and its Achilles heel. The Group, a little restrained, designed robust products. However, this allowed for little or no room for it to move outside of the box. Innovation requires being open, taking risks and leaving your comfort zone. (...)
How to innovate
in 3 steps
Unleashing employee audacity, creating bonds and opening up to social issues: these are the keys to innovation, according to three LACROIX Group experts. The perspective of Jean-Michel Méric (R&D Director of LACROIX Sofrel), Sophie Vanwaelscappel (innovation catalyst at LACROIX Lab) and Stéphane Henry (Executive VP, R&D of LACROIX Group). (...)
Innovation: making a positive contribution to society?
Before becoming President of the Club de Paris innovation forum and the European Institute of Creative Strategies and Innovation, Marc Giget had followed a varied career path, always at the service of society. From the EHESS, where he obtained a PhD in international economics, to the Académie des Technologies, through a teaching post at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, his path shows a clear and ever-present leitmotif: innovation. (...)
Established moments
for sharing!
Since 2018, the monthly webinars run by experts from the LACROIX TECH community or external partners have become increasingly popular with the Group. (...)
LACROIX Group's
best innovation stories
Several concrete projects illustrate the scale of LACROIX Group's transformation since 2016. Our audacity can be seen in the Symbiose project 4.0 factory, ourautonomous shuttle trials, the SOFREL S4TH telemetry and SCADA system and, not forgetting, the winning of the Angers Smart City project. A few examples demonstrating the strong presence of innovation within the Group. (...)
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LACROIX Group on the way to become
the mid-cap of the future?
The global transformation of companies and opening them up to the outside world promotes innovation. It is a key factor for competitiveness and value creation for customers. This must contribute to the positive development of the company, in order to move towards a new mid-cap model. (...)
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