Sector
Industry
In industry, R&D must deliver innovations that improve near-term competitiveness and build long-term competitive advantage. Calsoï helps industrial companies manage that balance.
What Calsoï brings to industry
Jean-Christophe Simon served as Chief Innovation Officer of SEB Group, one of the world's leading small appliance manufacturers, and managed R&D teams in France, Japan and Germany. He knows the challenges specific to industry: long development cycles, demanding industrialisation, trade-offs between defending an existing range and funding disruptive innovation.
Calsoï can help to:
- Define or restructure the R&D strategy of a mid-size or large industrial group
- Establish a project governance system (committees, go/no-go criteria)
- Build or strengthen a patent portfolio aligned with the strategy
- Provide fractional R&D leadership during a transition
- Prepare a divestiture or fundraising round by valuing technological assets
The challenge of industrial innovation
Industry faces two contradictory pressures. Short-term results demand (improve an existing product, reduce a manufacturing cost). And the need to innovate disruptively to avoid being overtaken by competitors who started investing five or ten years earlier.
Managing this balance requires a deliberately constructed project portfolio, not just the projects that survived internal committee review. That is the foundational work Calsoï supports.
Engagement formats
Depending on the need: innovation strategy advisory, fractional R&D leadership, or technology company divestiture mandate.