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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...
IDENTITY
Who are we?
Created in 2003, the faberNovel company is dedicated to innovation and its implementation.
Our model is delegated innovation. Our clients decide to call on us to handle any aspect of an innovation-linked project. We bring together concepts, talents, technologies and the appropriate market to allow our clients, start-ups and industrial groups alike to:
- create prototypes
- define and lead for successful growth strategies
faberNovel is based in Paris and has been settled in San Francisco as of 2007.
In 2004, faberNovel was awarded the status of Young Innovating Company. We offer our professional expertise and specific innovation know how: From idea to concept, to prototype, and to actual implementation in a specific market.
The unique combination of:
- a team of experts in strategy, technology, marketing and design, passionate about the conception and carrying out of innovative projects,
- a daily operative assistance to our clients and companies within the faberNovel Federation,
- an action-oriented involvement in European and American entrepreneurial ecosystems
enables faberNovel to immediately mobilize all relevant and necessary resources to an innovation project and its actual implementation, for each step of the venture.
Our values
More than an organization, faberNovel is a movement that rallies experts and companies around a common set of values:
Innovation
Innovating is daring challenging each and every one of the elements constituting an existing solution with the intent of improving its efficiency, pertinence, relevance, usefulness and success. We create disruptive mechanisms on a daily basis. Inventing entirely new possibilities is our motivation. We are not interested in copy; We proudly favor difference.
Openness
Being open is accepting all contribution, whatever the source. We believe it is the essence of pluridisciplinarity and foundation of a team. It means remaining unbiased and valuing difference. We firmly believe that accepting is as fulfilling as receiving and that any innovative project finds its solution in the diversity of opinions, debates and mechanisms.
Premium
Quality and strength create value, so does a sense of respect for positive contribution services. We don’t believe in “low cost” as a viable model for developing worth. We are convinced that clients will always be willing to grant their trust and loyalty to that which is beautiful, solid, simple and effective.
Audacity
Our solutions, our organization and our operating methods are audacious. We take pride in representing a movement, not your standard company. We value determination, originality, entrepreneurship, and the desire to surpass one’s self. We place leadership above hierarchy. We dare less obvious combinations of technologies, ideas and markets, unprejudiced.
Accountability
We tell you the plan and we keep to our word. We handle all projects as if they were our own. We understand that innovation is fascinating, yet difficult and requiring much energy and involvement, which is why we set the highest degree of professional rigor and expertise to all our projects. In particular, we always verify that our projects are consistent with the long-term interests of our clients and partners.
Nimbleness
Improvising, adapting to a new order, looking with insight for the best solutions to achieve a set of predetermined objectives; these are the qualities required to evolve in a complex and evolving world. Our methods and tools are inspired by this permanent quest of adaptability and we believe assisting innovating start-ups is the best way for our teams to remain alert and flexible.
Cool
Because fear never prevented from danger, we consider that serenity offers the optimal decision-making. Keeping a clear mind avoids confusion. But most of all, we are cool because we’re passionate about making a difference and we love our jobs.
Team
We know our value is the reflection of the individuals in our team, which is why we dedicate considerable care and constant interest in our recruits and their well being.
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Stéphane Distinguin
Stéphane Distinguin graduated from ESCP-EAP and joined Deloitte & Touche consultancy firm in 1997, first in London with the High Technology group and then in Paris. In 1999, he participated in the creation of Up&Up, an “early stage” investment funds, and contributed to the development of startups dedicated to software publishing and clean technology.
In 2003, Stéphane created faberNovel, a true innovation platform. In just 4 years and without even using the invested capital, faberNovel recruited some thirty colleagues and built its reputation on solid references. The company develops innovative experiments and offers its expertise in diversification and development strategy through innovation to major companies (RATP, SFR, L’Oréal, Gaz de France, La Lyonnaise des Eaux…).
faberNovel’s process starts with an internal experimenting of ideas or projects that explore new technology, behaviors and emerging methods, which may then lead to testing them on the field; The most promising projects may even yield dedicated structures. Such an “excubation” model enabled faberNovel to achieve diversification through the creation and development of companies such as digitick, af83, Chugulu Games, C4M Prod, DoYouMultimedia, Persistant Labs, SpinMedias, eXoPlatform, Tarpipe, etc.
Moreover, Stéphane Distinguin became CEO of Silicon Sentier in 2004. This entity represents close to a hundred Parisian companies that are dedicated to information technology and communication. He is also administrator of Cap Digital, the cluster for digital content; of Comité Richelieu, the French association for innovating SMEs and of Isoc France, the Internet Society French chapter.
Clément Alteresco
Clément received his Masters degree in Innovative Technology (MTI) from Paris X Dauphine University and INSTIN and is part of faberNovel’s original team. Co-founder of digitick in 2004 he became a faberNovel partner in 2006. He is now in charge of faberNovel inc’s development and expansion.
Main achievements:
- Projects for RATP
BlueEyes, setting up an orientation help system designed for the visually handicapped.
PT/PV: Comparing time spent in transportation: public transportation vs. personal vehicle - Projects for Transdev
Mobitrans, real time information service on mobile phones
AlloCyclo, bike rental through mobile phones - Projects for SFR
SFR Young Talents, web and mobile platform
SFR “Trouve ton métier” (find out what you’re good at). Web and mobile platform - Web and mobile platform for the catering industry
Paul Bois
Paul Bois is a Supélec graduate. He joined faberNovel in april 2005 to handle all prototype missions (specifications, design, realization, tests and deployment into the field). Main accomplishments:
- AlloCyclo: “self-service bike renting system” for Transdev
- EDIM: pilot project of a new visual information screen for the RATP (French transportation system)
- Urban Mobs: jointly conducted experiment with Orange Labs on the recovery, aggregation and representation of data collected from mobile activity. It aims at visualizing urban population’s activity through its use of mobile phone
He heads both research themes “Transports 2.0” and “Visualization of information and flows of information”
He is also co-founder and company treasurer of the “Clean Tuesday” association which purpose is to organize a monthly meeting of all “Clean Technology” players.
Arnaud Mombrial
After spending some time studying music (ARPEJ, CIM) and temping, Arnaud decided to look for a job where he would not be bored. So he took up on his education and studied to obtain a vocational training certificate (BTS). This led him to work as a technical support and installation engineer for customers on OpenSource appliances that were developed by RightVision (now owned by Alcatel Lucent). Wishing to have a look at the profession from the other end, he became IT Manager of the Première Heure group before joining faberNovel in 2007. He’s hoping to settle in a bit this time ...
Marie-Caroline Lanfranchi
Marie Caroline has a Master of Science degree from both the Imperial College of London and Supélec. She joined faberNovel in 2005 to work on the first experiment of the BlueEyes project which she carried through to a successful conclusion.
Since joining, she has successively led and managed innovative projects for clients, internal and external research works, as well as internal project developments. In parallel, she’s in charge of developing faberNovel’s methods and putting them into practice.
Among such projects were the following:
- BlueEyes –orientation help system designed for the visually handicapped in subway stations (RATP)
- Running the SFR Flashcode experiment in the Quartier Numérique or Digital Zone (SFR)
- A Positioning study for 2D code experiments (L’Oréal)
- Monitoring and assisting a contracting authority on the “Ma RATP dans la poche” project (RATP)
- A Mobile expertise and research project (RATP)
- A Project for the creation of a subsidiary entity dedicated to innovative services to individuals
- Internal initiatives: web site improvement platform through beta versions (Bet On Betas), alternate reality game (Tag the City), and participation in an ANR (French National Agency for Research) project on “economic organization models and virtual worlds”
Marie Caroline’s work allowed faberNovel to patent several mobile technologies. Her specialty research themes are urban organization and innovative services to individuals.
Julien Didier
Julien started a three-year apprenticeship contract with faberNovel in 2007. He is now preparing for the level 1 degree of Information engineering, Networks and Telecommunications Management at the ITIN (Cergy). He was in charge of managing and developing faberNovel and af83’s intranet sites which required him to research the needed content, record technical specificities, develop modules and train its users.
Research Theme: Internal development
Arnaud Joubay
Arnaud received his engineering degree specialized in information systems from Supélec. After two years as a financial auditor at Mazars working for several industrial, banking and insurance groups, Arnaud Joubay joined faberNovel in 2007 to occupy two functions there. He became faberNovel and faberNovel federation of start-ups’ first Chief Financial Officer and was also put in charge of running the 2D Codes and Flashcodes projects handled for the RATP (French transportation network) as well as implementing the CAUTIC method (technology, innovation and change aided design).
Amélie Clément
Amélie passed a vocational training certificate (BTS) in Managing small and mid-sized companies. She has 7 years of experience as a secretary. She started off as part of the staff management unit of a construction company before spending a couple of years with JCDecaux in London (Marketing/Publicity events Section) and in Paris (Business and Marketing head office).
Later, Amélie was put in charge of some ten apartments on behalf of My Flat in Paris before becoming management secretary at Atlantic Intelligence and Client Project Officer at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. She joined faberNovel in September 2007 to look after our team and its work environment.
Sabrina Distinguin
Sabrina has a European Jurist degree from Paris II and a Master’s in European Business from ESCP-EAP. She worked 5 years for the Buongiorno group in London, then in Paris. There, she successively worked as:
- Business Development Officer: launching of interactive direct marketing initiatives (budgetary management for amazon, PriceMinister, eBay, MSN, etc.) and of brokerage (trade talks with owners of customer addresses, e-mails and GSM numbers) with the aim of creating new partnerships.
- Production Manager: coordinating direct marketing multiple channel campaigns (e-mail, SMS, MMS) of important accounts (SFR, Apple, AOL, Masterfoods, American Express, Sofinco, Cofidis, etc.)
- Marketing Manager for France and MENA: designing and managing services for major mobile phone companies in France (Orange France, SFR), Switzerland (Swisscom) and Morocco (Maroc Telecom).
She spent another year at Mediabilis (Novedia Group) where, as Strategic Marketing Manager, she was in charge of developing new mobile service offers. Finally, she joined faberNovel’s team in February 2008 to occupy the company’s first marketing position.
Estelle Specque
Estelle has a vocational training certificate (BTS) in visual communication specialized in publishing and publicity graphics, as well as a professional degree in designing and developing multimedia services and products. She joined faberNovel in april 2008 for a 6 month-internship an decided to stick to the company by combining her work at faberNovel with a 4th year of study at e-artsup.
She participated in creating faberNovel website’s new visual identity. She also designed print, web and wap graphic charts, logos, illustrations and animations for various projects handled by faberNovel and af83.
Alexandre Assouad
Alexandre Assouad is a Supeléc graduate and was hired upon the completion of a six-month internship at faberNovel.
His main areas of expertise are the web, mobility (AlloCyclo, VLS blog) and data visualization (Urban Mobs project).
Guillaume Charny-Brunet
Guillaume has a European Law degree and a Master’s in European Business (ESCP-EAP). He joined faberNovel in November 2006 when he was hired after completing his end of school internship with the company. He handles patent rights and follows through the carrying out of several innovative projects among which are:
- QN TV: First local web TV dedicated to the life and people of Paris’ 2nd arrondissement. This experiment involves several partnerships and aims at testing the visual impact of images as a binding tool for social networking.
- Virtual Exhibition, Jacques Prévert, Paris la belle: Paris local authorities entrusted faberNovel, Chugulu and Persistant with creating a virtual version of an exhibition currently displayed at Town hall’s Saint Jean room from October 23rd 2008 to February 28th 2009.
Research themes: Life and digital activities, Urban life
Cyril Vart
Cyril started his career in 1982 by developing databases for the video game industry (Loriciel). He then specialized in the marketing and development aspects of the product, particularly so when working at Evolution France (osus GEM and OS2 word processing), IBM and then Lotus Development where he managed the Lotus SmartSuite project for several years.
In 1994, he continued working for Lotus Development Corp. in Boston. Two years later he was hired by Altavista Search to act as Marketing Manager until Compaq bought the company in 1998. His next move was to join Ziff Davis Inc. where he was in charge of developing ZD University, an e-learning website. In 1999 he returned to France to handle strategic marketing and portals of Wanadoo Portal as Assistant General Manager.
Before joining the faberNovel team in june 2008, he was acting as Business Development Manager for the Emap France press group (now Mondari) where he more specifically addressed the group’s digital operations as well as various strategic projects (TV marketing, online subscription policies, pre-launching of the magazine Closer, corporate planning, etc.)
Benoît Talabot
Benoit received an Arts degree with magna cum laude from the University of Paris VIII in 2000, a Graduate Applied Arts degree with superior distinction from the St Luc Institute in Brussels in 1997 and an information and communications technical degree from the René Descartes technical school in Paris. Benoit Talabot signed up to be part of the Maison des Artistes, French association representing and defending artists’ rights and became a freelance illustrator-graphic designer in 1999. He joined faberNovel in 2003 as Art director.
Publications:
- Zeixs edition of “t-shirt design”, 2008
- Moga mobo (Berlin), 2005
Exhibitions:
- -Autarcik Comix Brussels (international exhibition of Independent Comics), 1995
- Open Workshops in Fontenay, 2000
Clément Léocadie
Clément is a student from ENS Cachan (Automated Electro-technical Electronics section - Applied physics, M1 Information System and Technology, Paris XI University – ENS Cachan). Since September 2008 and during his caesura, he is part of faberNovel’s team. Currently student in the M1 « Project Innovation Conception » of Polytechnique, he is performing a research internship as Junior Project Designer at faberNovel. He is in charge of Green Tech operations: participating in the establishment of the Clean Tuesday association, creating an internal company social responsibility chart, canvassing for business, monitoring the market. He has taken part in several projects such as Ma RATP dans la poche (aMOA) and BlueEyes (R&D).
Research themes: Innovative Eco-technologies, Urban life
Matthieu Lecomte
Matthieu Lecomte received his History and Political Sciences degree from La Sorbonne University and also graduated from HEC.
His first work experiences were in strategic consultancy at the French office of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and at the financial department of L’Oréal Germany. Matthieu then completed an internship upon which he was hired at faberNovel. His main achievements as Junior Project Analyst are that he:
- contributed to writing studies on Facebook and Google
- re-defined the digital strategy of a publishing entity
- re-defined the digital strategy of a B2B weekly
- improved the innovative process of a mobile phone company
- set up monitoring tools for a company from the energy industry.
Rémi Rousseau
Rémi Rousseau is a 2008 Polytechnique graduate who also received a PIC master’s degree in Innovation and Project Management. He joined faberNovel in October 2008 after completing a 15 month-internship with Lagardère. There, he spent six months working at VirginMega.fr on original ways to promote and value online music, and another nine months at the group’s Innovation pole. His missions there were to explore the use of digital books as well as the transmission of cultural content on the Internet and social media channels.
Research themes: the media and data visualization
Hélène Huby
Hélène graduated from Paris Sciences-Po ENS Ulm and ENA schools and starts working for the French Ministry of Research.
In 2006, she turns towards a new career in the press. She becomes a journalist for Europolitique in Brussels, one of the leading sources of professional information on the European Union. She’s also assigned to the company’s development on the web. Then, Hélène integrates the Bayard-Presse/Roularta joint venture where she acts as an official representative to the Executive officer and advises him on the group’s editorial evolution.
She joins faberNovel in 2009 as senior project analyst with a specialty in editorial project management related to the new media (web and mobile).
Hue-An Nguyen
Hue-An passed an English-Chinese Modern languages degree and then joined the ESCE business school to complete her higher education and followed a class curriculum combined with work experience. She decided to join faberNovel in January 2009. As Marketing & Communications Assistant, she will participate in organizing events and improving faberNovel’s internal and external communication tools.