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Fondation Sophia Antipolis, & CIGREF Signed an agreement to create a FOUNDATION of Research
June 2008 by Marc Jacob
Senator Pierre Laffitte, President of Fondation Sophia Antipolis, &
Didier Lambert, President of CIGREF Signed – during the 19th OPIO round of Information/Data-Processing Discussions – an
agreement to create a FOUNDATION of Research whose missions are to:
– lead studies regarding the computerisation of major businesses (1970 – 2010) in
order to constitute a memory of it;
– develop an international programme of research with a view to evaluating the
professional usage dynamics of ICT and to anticipate their impacts on the future
management of firms (2010 - 2030).
Fondation CIGREF was created to:
– Register the development of a research programme in the prestigious and famous
framework in the field of new technologies, offered by Fondation Sophia-Antipolis;
– To share with as many as possible the result of the research carried out in the field of
information systems and ICT;
– Associate CIGREF as well as scientific experts (French and International) with choice of
supported research topics.
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME
“IS Dynamics”
(1970-2020)
The IS Dynamics programme (ISD) comes under the continuity of the research programme
launched by CIGREF in 2004, on the theme: “Promote the use of information systems as a
factor of value creation and as a source of innovation for business”.
http://cigref.typepad.fr/recherche/
From the viewpoint of CIGREF’s 40 years (2010), the ISD programmes’ ambition is to put the
spotlight on managers of major businesses - public and private – on the strategic challenges
of Information Systems taking into consideration changes in progress in the economic
models of various firms.
The IS Dynamics programme (ISD) is a programme of public interest: it aims to evaluate
the societal and managerial challenges in the long term usage of information systems (1970-
2020). ISD is built around two inter linked components:
Ÿ
Historic Dimension: Study the dynamics of business computerisation accross analysis
of the evolution of IS over the course of the last forty years.
Ÿ Prospective Dimension: Anticipate “future possibilities” of organisational design taking
into account major transformations in world socioeconomic systems, and business & societal
regulatory norms.
