faberNovel is a management consulting firm that specializes on innovation and putting it into practice. Because they operate in an ever changing world, companies must continually adapt their strategy, their organization, their culture and their products in order to maintain a competitive advantage. Many large French and international groups trust our expertise to stimulate their innovation genes, making them more agile and improving their vision so they can evolve in a changing environment.

Our identity is based on a networked approach to innovation and on a perfect command of all aspects of it : starting with the need identification and the concept wording up until its implementation, faberNovel is offering to its clients and partners an ecosystem that includes innovative start-ups, large companies and research labs that are willing to share resources and move forward together to make society progress as a whole. As innovation's missing link, faberNovel is able to breathe life into those projects and reveal each organization's hidden resources. Engineers, designers, marketing, communication or process experts, the diversity and experience of our consultants brings expertise in functional design, command of new technologies and the necessary engagement to complete our missions.

Our services

Build to answer all innovation connected issues, faberNovel assists executives from major companies. Our specificity lies in our willingness to end all our missions in practical steps.

• Innovation Strategy: we carry out opportunity and threat analyses on evolving markets and help companies to redefine their offer or to put in place a strategic experiment approach ;
• Innovation organization and effectiveness: after a thorough analysis of the company or department involved, we define and put in place new processes and new organizations ;
• Change Management by and for innovation: we help companies to pull on identified action levers and to deploy new technological and management tools ;
• Conception and innovative experimentation: we develop innovative products and services and coach our clients in their experimentation and market deployment ;
• Market / technology watch and prospective: thanks to an international watch open to all sectors, we provide our clients with the best methods and informations relevant to their business to help them taking the best decisions and innovate.
• Business Development and Technology Transfer: faberNovel is on the lookout for innovative solutions developed in foreign markets. faberNovel’s technology transfer platform enables innovative companies to develop new opportunities in the French and European markets
• We provide these companies with a full set of services that will guarantee successful technology transfer. Services include market analysis, customer prospection, adaptation and translation of solutions, documents and website, renting office space, patent registration, … faberNovel will set up a local team of consultants, technology and marketing experts committed to the project’s success. Companies will also benefit from faberNovel’s widespread network of partners and clients
• Paris is within one hour reach from all the major business capitals in Europe, where it benefits from its advanced air, road, rail and data (Internet backbone) access. Ideally located in the heart of Paris, faberNovel is in constant contact with some of Europe’s most innovative start-ups in fields such as open source, mobility, media, ecommerce, etc… and plays a leading role in animating this network. Stéphane Distinguin, faberNovel’s CEO, is also the Président of Silicon Sentier, Paris largest association of innovative companies, and an administrator of Cap Digital, a Paris technology cluster. Furthermore, faberNovel’s offices and state of the art infrastructure provides all the necessary elements needed for a successful implementation.

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Some realisations:

Defense: faberNovel helped the Direction des Applications Militaires of the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) to refine its technology transfer strategy, and then to improve the management and reduce the financial risks of such projects via the identification and distribution of Best Practices.

Transportation: faberNovel helped two of the major transportation actors in France (Transdev, from the Caisse des Dépôts Group, and RATP, Paris Public Transport Authority) to develop new services. For example : Mobitrans (information on transit times on mobile phones), Digitick (sale of digital tickets on mobile phones), BlueEyes (navigation help system for blind and visually deficient people in the metro), AlloCyclo (self-service bike rental system), ...