Open Strategy at the Edge of Exploration and Exploitation: How we Think in an Organisation?

25-May-2023 14:00 - 14:30

This session includes various objectives. Firstly, we will come back to the notion of strategy, to what this famous word really means in the field of management and recognise how strategy becomes an essential part of collaborative workplaces. Secondly, we will walk through a short history of the meaning of competitive advantage, which has changed from being a central issue in economics to a sensemaking concept in an organisation and nowadays is at the core of Open Strategy. Then, thanks to this recent open view of management, we will focus our attention on how an organisation could think collectively and why collective thought relates to competitiveness. We will not use the well-known idea of collective intelligence, which is often seen merely as an optimal state, is described poorly, and is never really understood in terms of “how could we combine and manage different minds in practice”. Beyond that, we will discover the possibility to apprehend an organisation as a multidimensional place where ideas, knowledge, affects and rationalities are distributed and therefore, a cognitive management of workplaces.

Speakers

Professor of Strategy and
Organisation, emlyon business school

Jean Louis is full professor in the strategy and organization department of emlyon business school, one of the highest-ranked business schools in France. Combining strategy, sociology and philosophy of the mind, Jean Louis brings a unique perspective..