Yes, from a physical point of view, one seminar after another held every weekend, are difficult. Especially, when they were held with more than 2000 kms between them. Luckily, except from the intellectual rhythm that is required, two seminars I attended two weeks ago were held in Brasov, where it brought together both the Eastern Unit Management Team (the Heads of the branch offices) and Management under the direction of Aymeric, for the Technology, Infrastructure, Quality, and Information system of the company. As for last week in Orleans, the first Business Lines seminar was held under the care of Sophie and Monica.

I believe that never before have our seminars reached such a high level of professionalism and innovative research. Pentalog has indeed recognized the sustainability of the crisis. If we want to defend our jobs, employees, growth, revenues, we need to develop strategies that make us stand out even more so, with rare offers, justifying the higher margins than those of our competitors which give us the means to develop projects even more rapidly.

It is difficult for me to touch on each subject that was discussed. Generally in technology, infrastructure, quality, software groups, we particularly focused on different ideas concerning the Pentalog Lab and the Incubator. We now can do an X-ray on the Lab: 4 vertebrae, corresponding to 4 projects embodying a new strategy, breaking with the past. The Lab’s mission has been clarified, equally in the manner that it functions. It will work, as I already have mentioned, for the ENTIRE group that is to say by integrating the present and future subsidiaries. It will also participate in client missions.

From the Business Lines meeting, I retained 2 principal ideas complementary to each other: Cloud and Green IT. How, indeed, to offer support to our clients in these difficult times? We must be with them, both in technology and development and by adapting to their business models. But what is true for our clients, can it be less true for us? Pierre, who is possibly the most aware amongst us about Green IT, he may possibly be in the future responsible for the carbon assessments for offshore activities generally. Furthermore, we believe that all of Pentalog must build a real cloud for its proposed intellectual services; this should be built around the brick & mortar structures already in place, in order to facilitate access to human and technical resources. I am thinking about management tools for dedicated teams and other competence centers, I am also thinking about project managers and productivity, management of the skills of our team members… All these tools will be offered to our clients, both to optimize overall management of our competence centers but also for their own teams. Already, two companies, in addition to Pentalog, are using these new production tools and perhaps soon a third-one.

The sharpest minds have already understood that the 4 innovative projects which I spoke of for the Lab will include some of the services of the first IT Cloud that I already mentioned… Of course, the major projects, related to the metric system and productivity management will be among them, as well as some of the projects of People Centric concerning skills assessment and management.

These projects will improve the Pentalog services, to distinguish them, making them even more accessible than they already are by using our intensive online marketing, which is already one of the best of many online services. But they will also provide solutions in a market that is redefining its services, where it has been forced to face simultaneously the challenges of the cloud, industrialization… and finally to propose innovations for the future of our profession.