Archives : Yann Gourvennec

Yann Gourvennec is head of internet and digital media at Orange Business Services. He is in charge of the international operator's websites and blogs and has been in marketing and innovation for over 20 years.

Hockey legend Mark Messier teaches great leadership lesson in Bratislava

published on 2011/05/31 by Yann Gourvennec

On May 10, 2011, the Orange Biznis Forum meeting took place in Bratislava, Slovakia. The guest speaker at that meeting was the much revered Canadian Ice Hockey legend Mark Messier, who is now retired. Mark had come to share with us some of his best tips with regard to team management and leadership inspired by the strong moments in his rich and long career. This business meeting had taken place the morning after we had witnessed the splendid victory of the Ice Hockey team of the Czech Republic, at the Orange arena in Bratislava [footage of the match available from......

Hockey legend Mark Messier teaches great leadership lesson in Bratislava

Tyson Foods' Hunger Relief Program

published on 2011/05/19 by Yann Gourvennec

Better late than never. I was going through my files today and I found this old piece written after a Blogwell event which took place in New York two years ago. So here it is with much delay but I thought it was worth reading and publishing anyway. Now that I have gone through it I regret I didn’t publish it earlier on because I think that this business case was/still is very inspirational:Blogwell presentation number 3: Tyson hunger relief(http://www.tysonhungerrelief.com)April 2009, NYC, NYTyson, hunger relief, presentation by Ed Nicholson in charge of social media, Tyson foods in the USThe third......

Tyson Foods' Hunger Relief Program

Orange sponsoring June 28 event on Culture & Tech with prestigious speakers in Paris

published on 2011/04/22 by Yann Gourvennec

Like Minds and Media Aces present an event sponsored by Orange:Paris: Culture+Tech 28 June 2011 An amazing line-up of speakers, a fascinating subject, in the City of Light The printing press, the telegraph, the phone. Three devices that changed not only way that we communicate, but shifted the way an entire world thought. Now in the digital age and with the rise of social media, how is our interconnectedness and the expectation of ubiquitous information changing the way we think? From how to we talk to how we listen, we’ll be exploring the technological innovations and cultural phenomena that surround us on our voyage as human......

Orange sponsoring June 28 event on Culture & Tech with prestigious speakers in Paris

Social CRM: 3 stages of Social integration within sales force automation

published on 2010/12/16 by Yann Gourvennec

A couple of days ago, I was able to talk to Jan Sysmans, director of product marketing at Sugar CRM in Cupertino, California. Jan was able to take me through a major evolution of its CRM systems in order to incorporate social media. This is more than just about adding a few features to a piece of software, it is an entire change in the approach to sales force automation and how salespeople do business; let's see why and how. Those familiar with orange business TV may have already had the opportunity to watch our video interview with Larry Augustin, recorded......

Social CRM: 3 stages of Social integration within sales force automation

Rod Boothby: "with Joyent, service providers can deploy Clouds in a matter of weeks"

published on 2010/11/26 by Yann Gourvennec

The last visit of our November press tour in the Silicon Valley took place in downtown San Francisco, with Joyent, an innovative company dedicated to Cloud deployments. Joyent is now planning to deploy in Europe, starting with France and the UK. A few important announcements were made at this meeting. We were greeted by Bryan Brown and Rod Boothby, respectively SVP Business Development and VP Global Business DevelopmentintroductionJoyent's mission statement is simple: "the best in class software for cloud operators". Joyent's main customers are public cloud operators. The company was founded in 2004 and the cloud offering was launched in 2006. In......

Rod Boothby: "with Joyent, service providers can deploy Clouds in a matter of weeks"