by Minter Dial | Oct 24, 2010 | Business, New Tech
Attended a most interesting INSEAD breakfast presentation last week by François Momboisse, President since 2002 of the FEVAD (the association covering eCommerce and distance selling in France). François is also head of international digital operations for the FNAC (a...
by Minter Dial | Jul 7, 2010 | Business
French Service For some, “French Service” is an oxymoron. Some like to say the same thing of American Intelligence. But as far as French Intelligence is concerned and American Service, we tend to be on the right track! Regarding French service, there has...
by Minter Dial | Feb 9, 2010 | Business, Social Media
This post was originally published on Dec 14 2009 on a new defunct blog. It is the third in a series of the key learnings from LeWeb 2009 conference (Dec 9-10). As I have written before, I attended the LeWeb Conference 2009 in Paris, and have collected my...
by Minter Dial | Jan 11, 2010 | Business
Digesting all the information at #LeWeb conference 2009, I wrote up what I found were the nine most interesting points in three separate posts (one, two, three).* Here are the consequences of these highlight points, as I see them, for business: Le Web 2009 Even if...
by Minter Dial | Dec 10, 2009 | Business, Social Media
Attended the LeWeb Conference 2009, organised by Loic Lemeur and his wife, Géraldine, on December 9-10, 2009. I collected my top nine thoughts which I am delivering in three separate postings. This is the second of three (here is the first one). 4. The human...
by Minter Dial | Oct 22, 2009 | Business
As part of my Franco-American profile, I am naturally drawn to reading about comparisons and competition between France and the US. I came across this May 2009 article, France Beats America, which describes France’s epicurean passion for “living it...