"I am very proud to be championing the Altran Innovation Makers . This award is recognition of the efforts that we have made to catalyse innovation for, and with our clients and partners. We have centred our methods around the different types of usage by pooling multi-skilled and diversified teams with Altran Pr[i]me designers to create value and enhance performance", declared Corinne Jouanny.

Implementation of user-focused innovation centres

With Altran Pr[i]me, specialist in innovation management, Corinne Jouanny has developed new services offerings designed to support the industrial sector's shift towards dynamic open innovation.

Under her leadership, Altran Pr[i]me has been the forerunner in putting design thinking into practice and, in particular, demonstrated its ability to integrate designers and human-science specialists, such as ethnologues and semiologues, into its teams of engineers and design to cost specialists; a global strategy targeting diversity of professional, economic and technological skills, as well as expertise, culture and gender.

Collaborative innovation serving value creation

Going beyond the development of these methods and the triumphant integration of this diversity, the relevance of this new approach is underscored by the success of the products and services that Altran has developed with its clients.

Her team works hand in hand with clients to create and implement major transformation projects that use a cross-sector approach and which are focused on the human factor and the end user.

Numerous projects demonstrate the success of this innovative approach which combines creativity and collaboration and draws on multiple skills. Examples of this include the Airport of the future, a project developed in partnership with the Airbus group; the hyper-proximity services platform "Smart City+" which is currently being rolled out in the West of the Greater Paris district; personalised and connected medical devices developed within the framework of several partnerships; and the Alter@ge collaborative project focused on developing "silver economy" services.

A central figure with regard to Altran innovation, Corinne Jouanny is also a member of the board of the Altran Foundation for Innovation, which makes the annual selection of, and provides support to innovative projects for the common good.

Recognition of an original innovation approach

Corinne Jouanny is not only heading up these projects, but is now involved in numerous initiatives to promote and gain recognition for these original approaches.

Her involvement in the Women In Engineering network is one such initiative. As a co-founder of the WiE network, alongside several women top executives from a variety of industrial sectors, Corinne Jouanny is committed to bolstering the position of female engineers over the long term in all walks of industry, and from school benches up to top-management level.

An active player in the French technological ecosystem, Corinne contributes towards the recognition of Altran as a major force in open innovation in France. As global leader in innovation and high-tech engineering, Altran promoted the first parliamentary conference on open innovation in February 2014 and, in conjunction with Centrale-Supélec, Mazars and Société Générale, launched the Open Innovation Institute, in which Corinne Jouanny is a member of the steering committee.

Corinne Jouanny is currently co-writing a book, due to be published before the end of the year, with Xavier Pavie and Daphné Carthy, from the French business school ESSEC, along with François Verez, from Altran Pr[i]me. Outlining her own position in the innovation ecosystem, the book presents a new innovation method. This method and its tools are designed so that responsibility can be integrated as a creative source during the design and development processes of new products and services.

A woman innovator leading the way...

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