MARIE-ODILE LHOMME
Director of Digital Transformation and Information Systems
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT
In addition to the cross-disciplinary support provided by the Department, the progress of the Market Place project, which will improve the marketing process, the business processes and business agility within the school, as well as the finalisation of two preliminary studies to redesign the Finance IS and HR IS, were among the major projects conducted by the DTIS in 2022.
21
The number of level “1” priorities defined by the DTIS in the framework of the “Digital Sobriety” action plan initiated in 2023.
How would you assess 2022?
Firstly, as has been the case for the past three years, we are continuing our activities with a clear roadmap for the coming years. Among the very positive notes, we are making progress on some flagship projects for the school: Market Place is one of the spearheads. The delivery of this project is based on three capitalisation vectors. Firstly, it is an important advance in optimising the value chain for marketing of our products in the initial and continuing education offerings.
This project is also an opportunity for Audencia to make progress with core processes that support this value chain. Finally, we have also taken advantage of this project to acclimatise our personnel with flexibility, in order to work optimally on all our current and future projects. 2022 also allowed us to commence and then finalise 2 pre-studies (the needs analysis and construction of the study prior to the request for proposals) concerning reorganisation of the Finance IS and HR IS, scheduled for 2023. The requests for proposals, issued at the beginning of 2023, will allow for implementation in the coming months.
What is your vision for 2023?
2023 will first of all allow us to finalise the methodology / process / good practices vector for all of the DTIS’ component parts and explore technological innovation in order to best support projects in all of the school’s divisions. The other flagship project will of course be the delivery of the transitional Paris campus in September 2023.
Indeed, the DTIS has swung into action to meet the needs expressed by the various divisions, for both internal and external stakeholders. 2023 will also witness the start of all the studies based on Audencia’s future Smartcampus which will emerge on our target site at Saint Ouen in several years’ time. In this respect, the DTIS supports the school’s business strategy via a portfolio of strong and structural projects backed up by necessary industrialisation and the constant continual improvement of our practices!
What are your goals for the completion of the strategic plan, within the scope of the ECOS plan?
2025 will allow us to continue to optimise the DTIS’ processes in order to assist and readily support the school’s strategic vectors! Our objective is even more ambitious because we wish to improve learners’ experiences by placing their needs at the heart of the digital environment.
We have a clear focus: to deploy a customer-centred approach. It is with this in mind that we will continue our research in the use of technological platforms that can support hybrid campuses (artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of things, etc.). Following on from this, we are starting to look into the combination of the blockchain / metaverse, rather than a virtual campus which we believe is less well adapted to our context. We want to make the most of the Token 4 Good (T4G) concept to implement this combination of technologies and to be ready by the end of 2025, thus maintaining our role as a pioneer, which is important to us.
What are your CSR commitments?
Last July, following collection of certain exhaustive data which were sufficient to use the WeNR promoted by the responsible digital institute, we were able to identify certain information related to the network and our applications in order to carry out a carbon emission assessment of our DTIS infrastructures. We received this assessment in late September.
On the basis of this diagnosis, we have identified 21 level 1 priorities (as well as other level 2 and level 3 priorities). On this basis, we have finalised an action plan for 2023, which will be steered in-house by a person chosen from my team as the digital sobriety manager.
The scope of action for this plan is expanding and notably includes: the school’s strategy and governance, the study of equipment life cycles (purchasing, usage and end of service life), actions to raise awareness and train employees, the design of more relevant and lighter digital services, implementation of data management (including e-mail related data), etc. This action plan is naturally linked to the low-carbon strategy implemented by the institution, the CSR delegation and more generally all the divisions concerned with this issue.
PATRICIA BOUTRY
Digital Workplace Project Manager
Mobility for personal development
“As a Programme Assistant for 12 years on the Bachelor in Management Programme, I have always been attracted by digital tools. In 2019, I volunteered to contribute to Audencia’s roadmap for digital transformation. Working alongside Mélinda Schleder, I was in charge of the Audencia Store project. This new experience allowed me to discover the role of Project Manager, as well as all its IT and business aspects. This led to the decision to set up a digital workplace activity within the DTIS. Its scope covers all collaborative tools for employees and learners. Marie Odile Lhomme offered me the position of digital workplace project manager, with support to help me develop my skills (in project management, tools already referenced or to be referenced in the Audencia Store, creation and performance of presentations and webinars in French and English, etc.). It was a real opportunity that I seized immediately; I would never have imagined that my background would allow me to reach this type of position. So, I joined the DTIS as part of a very male-dominated team in which I gradually found my place. Indeed, female representation in IT professions is not very high, the statistics speak for themselves. Audencia is committed, for equally qualified people, to recruiting women or to implementing women’s mobility. I have benefited from it for my professional and personal development.”
