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Innovation and its implementation
faberNovel is dedicated to innovation and its implementation. Our clients decide to call on us to handle any aspect of an innovation-linked project. We link together concepts, talents, technologies and the appropriate market to allow our clients, start-ups and industrial groups alike, to create prototypes or enable innovative companies to define and lead for successful strategies focused on innovation and development.
From idea to concept, to prototype, and to actual implementation, faberNovel applies its professional expertise, its specific innovation know how all the way to the launching of new products and services.
Strategic Experiments
Experimenting strategies is the core business of faberNovel XP. Imagining new concepts for products and services, working out experimental protocols, developing, testing and validating prototypes is what they do.
faberNovel Prototype assists contracting authorities (in expressing their needs) or acts as project manager (up to the implementation phase).
Development through innovation
Deconstructing/Reconstructing of value chains, disintermediation, emerging of new economic models or racing for setting standards; these are some significant examples of the changes companies need to grasp and anticipate in order to turn them to their advantage. From identifying opportunities to designing new products or innovating services, faberNovel assists its clients every step of the way, from conceiving to implementing their development strategy.
faberNovel Inc, American subsidiary
faberNovel strengthened its position in the Silicon Valley in January 2007 when it created its American subsidiary faberNovel Inc.
The PariSoMa offices are based in the heart of the digital capital and Paris sister city of San Francisco, keeping a constant contact with the vanguard of ICT, design, and environmental technology...
Strategic studies and surveys
Context
With ecosystems evolving rapidly, faberNovel needs to identify the structural trends of innovation. New players join the game, business models change, leaders in innovation create best practices, behaviors adapt. These are some of the transformations faberNovel was meant to analyze.
In this context, faberNovel publishes its work in research papers, official reports and sociological surveys.
All faberNovel studies are published and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license. In deciding to do so, faberNovel adopts a sharing approach. Choosing this license enables all analysts and experts to use, improve, complement and share these documents and their content. A copy of this license “Attribution - Non Commercial – share alike 2.0 France” is available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/fr/
Google: Key success factors of the web’s undisputed champion – November 2008
This study focuses on determining the reasons behind Google’s industrial and commercial success. faberNovel identified 6 factors explaining Google’s unquestionable ascent: scalability, network effects, data tracking, openness, collaborative creation and business model.
- The study examines how these factors work within the search engine’s strategic framework and did so from its creation stage up to now
- These mechanisms, although created for a digital environment, may in fact be used by all companies related to the digital world, but also, on a broader scale, by any innovative industry.
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Sociological and behavioral surveys: Sociogeek.com – October 2008
Jointly with Orange Labs (behavior study) and Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération (new generation Internet foundation), faberNovel created a survey platform meant to identify the habits and behaviors of Internet users: www.sociogeek.com
The first of these surveys was launched in October 2008. Internet surfers were asked a series of questions so as to understand the identity mechanisms in online social networks:
- Finding out identity exposure practices on the Net: disclosure processes, creation of multiple identities, online modesty experiences.
- Analyzing the reasoning behind the creation of a personal online social network: selective criteria for choosing online contacts, friendship typology based on various major networks, differences between virtual and real networks.
Social Networks: Leading social networks’ best practices – November 2007
We analyze leading social networks with the aim of identifying their key factors of success:
- Analysis of those mechanisms that are specific to social networks: network organization, virality mechanism, network typology, metrics and Key Performance Indicators, virtual identity matrix.
- Case study for two types of networks: dating websites and professional social networks. faberNovel particularly focuses on analyzing business models, recruiting policies, loyalty development approaches and competitive service differentiation.
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Facebook: a “social media” revolution – October 2007
This study set out to evaluate Facebook’s development potential based on:
- Facts and key figures: audience, user typology, usage repetition, international growth, opening strategy through a platform
- Revenue model: investors, new advertising models, monetization of external applications.
- Business cases: Facebook’s valuation based on two categories of typical users.
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Open Source: Open source and free economic models – September 2007
Today, Open Source economic mechanisms are adequately structured, well established and offer long term profitability. This study aims at analyzing:
- Economic model typologies: indirect valuation model, added value distribution model, double license model and mutualization model.
- Key factors of success: the current market, the community of programmers, commercial infrastructures and managerial trust.