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Anne-Laure Fayard

"“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”"

I discovered OpenIDEO as I started working last fall on a research project on open innovation with one of my colleagues at NYU.

My research interests are:
- Organizational communication, including discourse analysis, discursive practices and technology-mediated communication.
-Socio-material practices, including the affordances of material artifacts and the influence of space.
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration, including design and art.

On top of the research project, I decided to start using OpenIDEO as the team project for the creativity class I'm teaching this fall. It's been a lot of fun and I have two "good reasons" (research and teaching) to spend time on OpenIDEO! :-)

Apart from this course on creativity (with a strong focus on design-led innovation), I teach the Organizational Behavior Core Course and used to teach a course entitled Coaching for leadership.

PS: the quote is from Churchill. One of my colleagues and friends at INSEAD sent it to me a long time ago and I printed it and kept it in my office. :-)

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Definitely! A virtual incubator for students

Entrepreneurship is a difficult subject to teach as it has to balance practice and theory. Providing a computer-based simulation that can be used in class will allow students to experience concepts and frameworks discussed in class.
April 25, 2012, 02:12AM 141 views 3 comments 5 applause
Day in the Life of a Start-up
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Insight from a French entrepreneur

Using our interview kit, I asked a French entrepreneur his experience starting his business (mostly web-based). While it is a story full of pitfalls, it has a happy ending as the business is up and running.
March 27, 2012, 03:01PM 475 views 6 comments 8 applause
Day in the Life of a Start-up
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Amazon.com: a story of rapid prototyping

How did Amazon.com get started? Was there a whole strategy and business plan? According to Tom Kelley in his article in Journal of Design Management, Amazon.com is a story of rapid prototyping.
March 24, 2012, 05:31PM 632 views 9 comments 11 applause
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May 08, 2012, 12:31AM
Thanks for feedback, Really enjoy your comments!
Anne-Laure Fayard's reply to James McBennett's comment
May 23, 2012, 02:57AM
Thanks James! Glad you found the comments useful.
November 05, 2011, 10:29PM
Hello A-L! I've very much enjoyed collaborating with you on OpenIDEO. Just read over your website and I'm wondering if you might be interested in talking about options for research collaboration as well? I'd love to know your thoughts...

Thanks,
Amanda
Anne-Laure Fayard's reply to James McBennett's comment
November 05, 2011, 10:42PM
Hi Amanda, I enjoyed collaborating as well and I enjoy collaborating on research projects as well. We can definitely discuss possibilities. Looking forward to the conversation, al
October 11, 2011, 09:35PM
Great to have your enthusiasm and energy rocking the platform, A-L! We hope you'll add some more info to your profile so folks can know about your work at NYUPoly and how you've been using OpenIDEO with your class. We're sure they'll be really interested!
Anne-Laure Fayard's reply to James McBennett's comment
October 12, 2011, 08:13PM
Thanks Meena... I've added quite a bit of information. I'm not sure how interesting it is though...:-)
Meena Kadri's reply to James McBennett's comment
October 12, 2011, 08:42PM
Brilliant – I think it's super interesting & am sure others will too!
Anne-Laure Fayard's reply to James McBennett's comment
October 12, 2011, 08:54PM
:-)
October 11, 2011, 04:24PM
Anne-Laure, just wanted to compliment you, not only on your posted inspirations, but also on the great comments & builds you're making on ideas, & connections you're drawing between them, for the human rights challenge! Keeps all our thoughts churning =)
Anne-Laure Fayard's reply to James McBennett's comment
October 11, 2011, 06:32PM
Thanks Vincent for your kind words. I'm glad you found my comments and my connections useful. :-)
July 26, 2011, 10:08AM
Hi Anne-Laure, just came across an article written by you- http://hbr.org/2011/07/who-moved-my-cube/ar/1. I enjoyed the read and forwarded to some of my colleagues:-)!!!
Anne-Laure Fayard's reply to James McBennett's comment
July 26, 2011, 04:09PM
thanks Krassimira for the nice feedback and for sharing.
I'm glad you enjoyed the article.
Anne-Laure Fayard's reply to James McBennett's comment
July 26, 2011, 04:10PM
Here is a follow up blog post on our HBR article:
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/07/blurring_face-to-face_and_virt.html

Please check it out and feel free to comment and share :-)
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