Denis Ettighoffer

Denis Ettighoffer, management consultant and strategy for the new technologies of information and the communication, is President founder of Eurotechnopolis Institute, a cabinet of council and studies which has the vocation to think about the impacts of the distribution generalized by the NTIC. The Institute drives regularly thorough studies with the cooperation of numerous international experts.

Ex-Directeur of the development of the New Information technologies and the Communication for Bossard Consultants, Denis Ettighoffer drove numerous general studies on the impacts of the NTIC which often ended in strategic choices for his customers. He is the author of « The Virtual Company or the New Working modes » (Odile Jacob. 1992), Price of the manager of the XXIè century in 1993. Translated into three languages and republished in 2001 in the Editions of Organization. Most of his books which were outdone or nominés approach the impact of the NTIC on the public and private organizations and the new economic models stemming from networks.

« The virtual company or the new working mode » approaches the big stakes and the new manners to think of the organization of the resources of the company thanks to the NTIC.

« The Office of Future: the Centres of business cases and Shared Services » insists on a transformation of the modern office which passes of a logic of surface in a logic of service. He announces the development of platforms multiservices and their effects on the durable economic development in the service industry.

« The Work in the XXIth century, Alterations of the work and the economy in the century of information superhighways » puts back(hands), among others question, the division(sharing) of the added value between work and capital, announces the development of "networkers", the end of the statutory and traditional models of the world of the work with the polyactivité, the liberal employee.

« The Syndrome of Chronos, the evil to work on the evil to live » shows the conflict existing between the time of the men and the machines in the century of the computer and its consequences on the psychic pressure. The increasing medicalization of a technical civilization but anxiogène multiplies the risks of a degradation of the health of people in the work. The book, thanks to numerous examples, shows the dangers for the Company to underestimate the effects on its margins and how make a trump card by a politics of "better saying social ".

« E.Business Generation: microcomputings-companies gain some money on Internet ». This international study financed by the Deposit office shows the emergence the importance and the variety of the creation of small business activities. Internet and Usenet favors a growth of on-line services which serves "self employment" or search for additional incomes to counter the uncertainty of the situations. This appropriate phenomenon in "family business", running to the United States, is also at the origin of the embryonnage of the future cybercompanies.

« Méta-Organisations or new creative models of value companies » approaches the organizational deficit of imagination of companies. Situation all the more worrisome as the performance of the chains(channels) of the value in the virtual organizations become established on their capacity to harmonize to improve the productivity and in consequentive creation. The competitive differentiation between companies and between nations will become established on the basis of their models of organizations, on their capacity to know how to imagine itself different!

« Of the Evil work on the Evil live » pursues a disturbing investigation on the changes of way of life of the French. In the light of the application of 35 hours and of the current debates on the pension, « Of the Evil to live in the Evil to work », show how much the reduced working week such as it was operated was an answer to an exceeded social and economic model.

« Too much it is too much » summarizes the impacts of the NTIC on the stress in companies and put in evidence a soft but increasing doping of the world of the work.

« NetBrain or the role of networks in the efertilisation », favor the exchanges of ideas; the efertilisation, is the big stake in the coming years for the Europeans.