SPEAKER: Michel Bloch
WHEN: Wed Sep 9 11:30a @ SFComplex Commons
(lunch at 12:45p at El Tesoro following Michael's talk)
ABSTRACT: Michel Bloch, founder of the group “Emergence
Paris” (France) is in Santa Fe from Wednesday the 5th through Monday
the 21st. Michel Bloch wishes to discuss with some members of the
SFComplex his experience as founder of the group “Emergence Paris”,
and the approach taken for two projects: Systemic Marketing and
Segregation in French Ghettos. We could also review briefly the
various groups working on the complexity sciences in France and
discuss potential contacts.
Biography
Michel Bloch has an Engineering diploma and is a former executive in
the computer industry (GE; Honeywell; Bull Group) in Paris; Bordeaux;
New York; Boston. He has an extensive experience in Sales; marketing;
strategy; R&D management. He managed an international business unit of
6000 people worldwide dedicated to R&D and Product Line Management,
located in Tokyo; Phoenix; Boston; London; Paris; Grenoble and Milano.
He is the founder of Mount Vernon Consulting, specialized in
increasing productivity of downstream activities with NTIT. Developed
a passion for the complexity sciences and founded the workgroup
“Emergence Paris” in 2004.
The Group “Emergence Paris”
A workgroup constituted of 35 very diverse persons: sales managers,
scientists, communication managers, designers, complex project
managers and so on. Created in 2004, Emergence Paris has held 43
meetings dedicated to three types of activities:
- Summary of books on complexity sciences
- Work session on the key concepts of complexity sciences
- Discussion of subjects enriched with the concepts of the
complexity sciences
Emergence Paris is now connected to the research group GREC/IMA led by
Alexandre Makarovitsch, which in turn is associated with “The National
Network for Complex Systems”.
A subgroup of Emergence Paris is starting a research project in
relation with GREC/IMA applying the complexity concepts to existing
sociological studies of the suburban French ghettos.
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