Peintures, Installations et Textes
La SMAF, the artist-company
Definition
La SMAF is a specific consulting, training and project management firm. It aims to support the creation of innovative activities with an approach of an artist-company. La SMAF stands for Sense-making-Metaphoric-Artifact-Firm.
In a socio-economic context of globalized transition, technological advances are not enough to create innovation. Management faces situations of uncertainty to which it is not always prepared. For La SMAF, the development of new and beneficial activities for the organization and its stakeholders is possible through experimentation of new forms with new processes.
The method of La SMAF proceeds from an artist point of view : it implies to analyze the context of the firm, its realities and potentialities in order to interpret its signs and forms, gather it and propose its redeployment in an innovative and creative way on new territories
Activity
To bring out, implement and sustain any innovation project, that concerns a product, a service, an organization or a territory.
La SMAF is a contemporary artist-company whose goal is to turn the firm (organization, social artifact, signature, collective identity, business model, value chain, competence network, knowledge base) into a common artwork and questioning it to make it evolve and transform.
La SMAF is based on a continuous watch on cross-management innovation and a network of experts with solid academic background and successful experience in project management. Our company is able to train and support those who wish to engage themselves in an innovation process.
Art as a project of transverse excellence in a period of transition.
Revitalize the company and the social, economic and industrial weave through art surrounding technical innovation, social and managerial.
Mobilize networks of actors in a visible and appropriate project.
Valorize the organizational and territorial identities.
Missions
Consulting, research and action, training and production: La SMAF designs, develops and realizes interventions on its own initiative or upon request from organizations of all types, companies, local authorities, public institutions and non-profit organizations, which question the meaning of their action and wish to define, adopt or implement an innovation, change or mutation policy.
TYPES OF ACTIONS
Common artwork: design, production, exhibition and communication of a common artwork from the census and analysis expertise of the company and the acquisition of new.
Innovation policy: watch, training, design, implementation and animation of an innovators network.
Establishment of incubators, FabLabs and “third places”.
Cross-media business portrait: organization, actors, places, objects, techniques, processes, knowledge.
Art Pedagogy: participatory art projects, happenings, theoretical and practical lectures.
Specificity
The approach of La SMAF is resolutely interdisciplinary, experiential, cooperative and is open to diverse audiences. It relies on the work of researchers in Management Sciences, Humanities, Art and Design on themes related to innovation, entrepreneurship and organizations’ mutations.
InfoBuro
S.A.S. La SMAF
2, rue Chomel 75007 PARIS - France
26, rue Traverse 29200 BREST. Bretagne - France
contact@lasmaf.com
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