The KCO Club is a community mixing firms’ professionals and academic researchers.
The club's objectives: explore the role of communities in business development and innovation within companies, notably:
- The value of communities for the company
- The coordination mechanisms allowing the company to make use of communities' innovations and outputs
As innovation appears as a key stake for companies, the 2018 ranking of the most innovative countries (Bloomberg Innovation Index) shows French businesses struggle to innovate. In terms of innovation, a growing number of companies discover the key role of communities. According to the 2018 FNEGE barometer, 88% of managers see communities as a decisive lever to their development. Communities are groups of individuals wishing to change common practices: the use of a product or a brand, a process, the business performance, the development of a new service or a product's improvement, suppliers qualification...
Communities: an informal organisation
Communities are informal groups of individuals having the desire to share and improve their practices or to develop new ones.
Communities: a growing interest for companies
- Breaking organisational silos and generating a better transversal coordination
- Favouring bottom-up processes to leverage innovative ideas arising from practice & improving user experiences (internally and externally)
- Instilling a new social dynamic
- Accompanying change by favouring meaning creation
Why joining the KCO Club?
- Obtain advice of club members (professionals and academics) to develop communities both within and outside your firm
- Benchmark experiences and share best practices and questions with other community members
- Benefit from latest research work by participating to KCO's seminars, symposiums and workshops
- Develop the visibility and recognition of your firm's action regarding communities through publications in renowned academic journals and the professional press (Harvard Business review, The Conversation)
Examples of activities developed by the KCO
- Publication of a guide on communities' management good practices - how to facilitate the emergence, animation and knowledge dissemination between communities (internal and external) and firms?
- Series of case studies: how to favour and make the best use communities' creativity?
- Yearly meetings: a forum for exchanging information on the practices and problems of members in terms of creating and running communities and making use of their work.
Publications
- Crespin-Mazet F., Goglio-Primard K., & Guittard C. (2019), « Communautés de connaissance et accélération de l’innovation et de la créativité », Innovations, 58 (1), pp.5-17.
- Crespin-Mazet F., Havenvid M. & Linne A. (2019), “Organising communities for construction innovation — examples from the French and Swedish construction sectors”, in The Connectivity of Innovation in the Construction Industry, Havenvid M., Linne A., Bygballe L. & Harty C. (Eds), Routledge, 2019, Chapter 10, 306p
- Goglio-Primard, K., Soulier E. (2018), Connaissances et technologie dans les communautés d’innovation, Revue Systèmes d’Information et Management, 23(1), 3-9.
- Crespin-Mazet, F., Goglio-Primard, K., Grenier, C. (2017) Social Collectives: A Partial Form of Organizing That Sustains Social Innovation, Management international, 21(3), 33-44.
- Goglio-Primard, K., Guittard C., Burger-Helmchen T. (2017) Knowledge Sharing in Geographically Dispersed Communities, Management international, 21(3), 10-15
- Ben Letaifa, S., Goglio-Primard, K. (2016) How does institutional context shape entrepreneurship conceptualizations? Journal of Business Research, (69), 5128-5134.
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