Albert Meige, EMBA Programme Director of Télécom Ecole de Management, reveals why managers need to work across silos and ask the right questions in order to lead the successful transition of business in a changing world.

Mr. Meige, how do entrepreneurship and innovation inspire you? There are many claims that entrepreneurs don’t need to go to business school. What is your experience?

Innovation and entrepreneurship are closely related. I have been an entrepreneur since I was a teenager. I have always been driven by innovation. And actually to the point that it did not fit into the education system: innovators ask new questions, whereas at school we generally learned how to answer questions posed as quickly as possible.

By 2030, 50% of the largest companies we know today will have disappeared. The survivors are those who will have transformed themselves – transformed not only through their products and services, but also as a whole. Innovation and entrepreneurial mind-sets are the keys to transformation and to overcoming the ongoing disruptions. But for that, you have to learn to ask the right questions.

How would you present the Télécom Ecole de Management’s Executive MBA programme in a single sentence?

The Executive MBA “Leading Innovation in a Digital World” is the first open MBA programme that is training managers who will be among the survivors. They will be the commando teams across silos – managers who will be asking the right questions.

What is really unique about Télécom Ecole de Management’s EMBA? What is it that cannot be found in other business schools in France, in Europe or elsewhere in the world?

In today’s world, all large organisations, regardless of which industries they operate in, face one question. This question is: how can we imagine having the agility of a start-up while having tens or even hundreds of thousands of employees? Small agile commando-style entities working across silos are the only entities that can survive in a very rapidly changing environment. I want our candidates to learn how to work like that. I want the MBA itself to be like a start-up.

Source: PrepAdviser.com 
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