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About us
Based on the notion that “Innovation is above all about managing innovation” CIME is an association which brings together company executives, HR directors, managers, researchers, and practitioners, to share and develop knowledge in the field of innovation management.
We focus on Innovation in all aspects, through 2 areas of investigation : the management of innovation and expertise, and managerial innovation
Why should you join Cime Innovation?
To join a network
Meet and share views and best practices with other executives and managers involved in questions relative to innovation
Share Return on Experience in a multi-disciplinary approach
To access latest outputs
Through studies, articles, research produced by researcher who are at the forefront on Innovation management and organization topics
Through a resource centre focusing on action research,the sharing of experience, and co-construction
To participate and contribute
In advancing reflection, practices and learning round those topics
In an environment guided by a Scientific Advisory Board and academic partners
Our offer
Our areas of research
Our productions
Regular meetings allowing testimonies and expert knowledge
sharing by company members, researchers, experts
Workshops facilitated in a collective intelligence approach to support reflection and consulting on a project
introduced by a company member
Learning expeditions to visit companies or innovative environnement (France and international)
Innovation Management intelligence and monitoring, relying on or French and International network (partners, companies, researchers), Exclusive member access to our resource center on our website
(http://cime-innovation-management-expertise.com)
Meet-up with peers at high level
Studies focusing on strategic subjects and topical themes and addressing
concrete needs for action
Seminars to discuss, share, capitalize and spread new knowledge
Both in the management of expertise and in managerial innovation
Expertise and Learning Modalities
Experts do not learn solely through training programmes offered by HR departments. Expertise is developed through interactions and within the interstices of daily activities. The collective sharing of qualified knowledge resources through communities of practice tends to be overlooked due to a lack of sustained and appropriate facilitation. How can we reinvent learning approaches to move toward true communities of expertise and learning? How can we imagine transmission through action? What role can corporate universities play in this renewal?
Managing Experts
The social dimension of learning—through interactions with different work collectives, the influence of inspiring role models, the management of career trajectories, and informal learning through immersion and observation at work—was highlighted in CIME’s latest study on The Making of Expertise. How can expert managers, who cannot rely on the same reflexes and practices as generalist managers, become true enablers of this kind of support? How can their role evolve on several fronts: the substance of expert work, project assignments, the development of collective expertise, meaningful and growth-oriented engagement, and support through transformation?
Expertise and Digital Technology
Scientific and technical expertise is facing the rise of digital technologies, particularly generative artificial intelligence. But what are the real impacts of this transformation? Does generative AI truly challenge the legitimacy of experts, or does it simply change how they work and create knowledge? Does the spread of these tools alter the very nature of interactions between experts and laypeople, or merely make them more complex? And finally, what managerial skills need to be developed to effectively manage these new forms of expertise, where humans and AI interact closely?
Publications, Learning Expeditions and Events
CIME Notebooks
2019 – No. 1: Managerial Innovation in All Its Forms
2020 – No. 2: Exploring Agility in the Context of R&D
2021 – No. 3: Roles and Skills of Managers in Transformation and Innovation Dynamics
2022 – No. 4: Organizing Spaces and Atmospheres for Creativity in R&D
2023 – No. 5: Balancing Productivity and Well-being – The Managerial Challenge of Remote Work
And No. 6: Work, Meaning, and Engagement – Keys to Understanding and Taking Action
2024 – No. 7: Managing Expertise – Understanding Its Development to Better Support It
CIME Travel Notebooks
2023 – No. 1: Innovation and Talent Management – What Can French Companies Learn from Israel’s Experience?
2024 – No. 2: Beyond “Transformations” – Reinventing Our Organizations? A Journey Through Five Case Studies in Rhône-Alpes
Publications
2018 – Research and Innovation Management, ISTE Editions
2025 (Date TBD) – Facets of the Innovative Enterprise, ISTE Editions
External Communications
2023 – 34th AGRH Congress:
Hyper-mobility: Challenging Managerial Orthodoxy Through the Case of Scientific and Technical Experts
2024 – 35th AGRH Congress:
Human Resource Management: Challenges, Territories, and Stakeholders
25th AGeCSO Conference:
Managing Scientific and Technical Expertise: Understanding Its “Fabrication” to Better Support It
Learning Expeditions
2017 – Transformation and Innovation Management in a Creative Industry – Ubisoft
2018 – China: Innovation as a National Priority
2018 – Switzerland: Humans at the Service of, and Tested by, Innovation – RTS, Liip, and Horizon Sud
2019 – How Will We Work Tomorrow? – Airbus and Naval Group
2022 – Israel, Start-Up Nation: Technological and/or Managerial Success?
2023 – Beyond Transformations, Should We Reinvent the Company – and If So, How? (Rhône-Alpes)
2024 – Collaborative Innovation Networks? (Clermont-Ferrand)
Study Days
2018 – Innovation Management in R&D: Between Tensions and Renewal
2019 – Managerial Innovation in All Its Forms
2020 – Technological Innovation and Managerial Innovation: From Singularity to Convergence
2021 – The Company Tested by the Environment: Navigating the Post-Crisis World
2022 – Transforming Workspaces: Time to Stop or Keep Going?
2023 – Giving Meaning to Work: Between Theory and Practice
2024 – The Making of Expertise, Talent, and Skills: What Innovations?
If you want to know more about Cime and its events, to ask the network a question, or become a member…