What were your motivations when creating INGENIERIE DECISION company ? To take up a personal challenge and to come to managers’ expectations, to build tools and to provide services dedicated to the improvement of the control of any situation of change.

Why ?
We are all very appealed by the evolution of our environment and we are witnessing a very important acceleration of the cycles of change, as well as the explosion of the networks, and an invasion of the new technologies… We must constantly find and organize means to face them! The shared use of the pragmatic methodologies within an organisation has become indispensable. It was necessary to elaborate them and develop them progressively with the missions in the field, which I try to realize.

On what bases did you develop them ?
On the basis of convictions that are coming from my experience and the research I have done about the experiences and behaviour of the decision-makers with regard to changes and the mechanisms they follow when making a decision:
. There are sources of amelioration places of the control of the situations of change: each decision-maker feels it : for example, an efficient approach by projects should allow, in fact, with the support of simple and practical concepts, to put them under good control. Other actors than decision-makers are in this case able to understand and fullfill their role better if they have more references on the framework and the rules of the game.
. Each one of them needs arguments, to have points of reference in order to defend their place in the society and their environment: like in the society, where each individual can only have a place as a citizen if the rules of the game have been shared; in a citizen company, the contribution of methodological structures that are locating the change can be used to guarantee the reactivity and the respect of the agreements.

Those 2 points were determining and my work consisted in organizing the changeover of this conviction to the concrete action. The actions in the field have done the rest

What was your career path ?
" Built by a professional experience and a continuing education, I discovered and experienced sometimes more than others the high complexity of changed situations. This led me to note the perturbations that they cause in the organizations, and this at an individual level as well as a collective level; however these disorders are difficult to treat because they are not expected and the best solutions do not always correspond to the models and to the academics theories taught in schools or published in the specialized editions… It was necessary to configure a system of reference that would combine sufficient theoretical basis and lessons taken from the practise. So I dedicated my work to the research in the field. It gave me the conviction that it was possible to clarify more the contexts of changing situations, to be able to recognise them, to provide practical tools and to create main threads to assist and give a sense of responsibility to the actors.

After having occupied various jobs in the domains of organization and human resources, my role as a consultant for public and private organizations led me naturally to consolidate these specializations in the operations of change.

In parallel, the writing of the “Representations of Decision Making facing Norms and Generally Accepted Ideas : the Realities of the Observation”, result of a research about the change, thesis for the DEA diploma (= post-graduate diploma taken before completing a PhD), was the first draft of ideas on the management of changes. It was a trigger of new methodological investigations and later of the writing of booklets dealing with the problematic of a changing situation and the approach by project.

It comes out from these forms of trainings some methodologies of answers to the solicitations of a change and notably an approach by project and a collection of techniques of engineery at the service of change situations under the denomination of ENGINEERING OF THE DECISION®.

Why is it necessary to be organized to stimulate as well as integrate the situations of change?
For the simple reason that except in exclusive cultures of obedience or submission, we have the possibility to always act, whether by taking the initiative individually or by offering a contribution to existing projects. It is better to acknowledge its measure and to organize themselves consequently: definition of citizenship, by Aristotle, that I try to share with my entourage and my partners, clarifies well this culture of responsibility:

" A citizen is the one who knows how to rule over others as well as to be ruled by others "