The Management Lab by Capgemini Invent

The Management Lab by Capgemini Invent bridges the latest management ideas into practice.

In a world of perpetual transformation, sustainable growth depends on a company’s ability to reinvent its business, organization and culture. We help companies reinvent themselves, by developing actionable frameworks designed to bring the frontier of management into the real world of business.

We build our own research and collaborate with renowned academics from leading business schools, including, Harvard Business School, MIT, IMD, LBS, and INSEAD. New ideas are tested and applied through strategic workshops with pioneering leaders, challenge sessions with academics, executive coaching.

We have a long-standing partnership with Thinkers50, the world’s most reliable source for identifying, ranking, and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Our team is a regular contributor to leading management magazines, including HBR.org, “I” by IMD, Dialogue Review, LSE Business Review.

A strong legacy

The Management Lab by Capgemini Invent originates from the European Centre for Strategic Innovation (ECSI), a management research and strategic advisory center, founded by the late Alessandro di Fiore (1965-2021), one of the most influential global voices in strategy and innovation. ECSI was acquired by the Capgemini Group in 2021, and the team joined Capgemini Invent to help shape the new frontier of management for clients.

Generative AI for Strategy & Innovation

An experiment by Paolo Cervini, Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani

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The 8 Responsibilities of Chief Sustainability Officers

by Elisa Farri, Paolo Cervini, and Gabriele Rosani

How compassionate leaders improve business performance

by Paolo Cervini, Gabriele Rosani

Growing together

Driving sustainability through the power of platforms and ecosystems

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Our academic network

As part of our ECSI legacy, we collaborate with leading management thinkers around the world, developing new ideas that are original, relevant and practical for business leaders.

Marshall Van Alstyne at BU and MIT

We collaborate on “Platform Strategies and business models”

Julian Birkinshaw at Ivey Business School

We collaborate on “Strategic and Organizational Agility”

Gary Pisano at HBS

We collaborate on “Innovation Strategy & Culture”

Michael Jacobides at LBS

We collaborate on “Value Migration in Evolving Ecosystems”

Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne at INSEAD

We collaborate on “Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean Leadership”

Mark J. Greeven at IMD

We collaborate on “Chinese Digital Ecosystems”

Kasturi Rangan at HBS

We collaborate on “Innovating Social Strategies”

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ManagementGPT: Beyond AI assistants, towards AI Co-Thinkers

Our library – the frontier of management ideas

HBR article

Good Judgment Is a Competitive Advantage in the Age of AI

With generative AI, the technology game has changed — suddenly everyone is a potential programmer.

HBR ebook

Generative AI for Strategy & Innovation

Capgemini Invent report

ManagementGPT: Prototypes of AI Co-Thinkers

Dialogue Review

Harnessing AI for cooperative advantage

I by IMD

Trust is a must, here are the tools to help you achieve it

As the office environment changes, many leaders are still suspicious of remote workers, but an innovative new approach can bring about real change.

London School of Economics

How to embed sustainability into the innovation funnel

I by IMD

Control systems: Seven ways to set your employees free

Harvard Business Review

Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

How Sustainability Efforts Fall Apart?

Companies have finally begun taking sustainability seriously, setting ambitious goals and targets. The bad news is that there is still a huge gap between ambition and action.

Innovation

The evolving role of the Chief Innovation Officer

HBR Italia

Nuovi modelli di gestione: l’evoluzione verso la leadership gentile

I by IMD

Seeing the whole picture: Why perspective-taking is a powerful tool for sustainable decision-making

London School of Economics

How to unshackle innovation from bureaucracy

We often associate innovation with freedom and creativity, but too often it is managed through heavy structures, rigid steps, bureaucratic control, and lack of empowerment. Gabriele Rosani and Alessandro Toia advocate for a new approach that puts people and purpose, rather than processes and rules, at the heart of innovation.

Business Ecosystem Alliance

How Business ecosystems can drive sustainability

Business Ecosystem Alliance

Ecosystems: The How Factor

Harvard Business Review

Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

By answering two simple questions, companies can determine how to set up their innovation unit. Is the Corporate Innovation Unit a “facilitator” within the company or is the “owner” of innovation initiatives? How centralized is the Innovation Unit?

Harvard Business Review

Why Science-Driven Companies Should Use Agile

Rotman Management

Dear Executives: Please Stop Performing ‘Culture Theatre’

Harvard Business Review

What Makes a Great Executive Retreat

Meet our experts

Included in the list of management thinkers to watch by Thinkers50, Elisa is an expert on management at the intersection of academia and business. Through exploratory research, thought leadership, and academic collaborations, Elisa bridges the latest management frameworks into practice. A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Elisa has extensive experience developing and delivering executive training at leading organizations globally.

Paolo Cervini creates sustainable, accessible, and inclusive models for organizations that empower people to unlock personal and organizational value. He is a member of the Thinkers50 Radar class of 2023 and co-lead of The Management Lab by Capgemini Invent, a global think-tank that aims to democratize management and bridge the latest management ideas into practice.

Esteemed author and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Gabriele has been researching, designing, and testing new management frameworks and tools for over a decade. Gabriele works at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and sustainability, bringing new management practices to the real world of business for clients. An experienced adviser to Fortune 500 companies, Gabriele previously worked at the European Centre for Strategic Innovation where he discovered his passion for shaping the new frontier of management.

The Management Lab by Capgemini Invent