Many are linked to the economies of paper

David Bassereau is an enterprising maintenance officer. Force repair five sas entry and exit of the terminal South of Orly, often blocked the technician came to propose another solution to his coaching. Specializing each door for exit or entry of passengers, the team of David Bassereau argued several advantages. This very simple adjustment will facilitate access to the Terminal while limiting traffic in winter cold air flows inward. Airports of Paris decided to change the device this year. "We've encrypted to 300 mégawatheures per year annual economy of calories, the equivalent of fifty years of consumption of a family," said Lionel Goguet, responsible for maintenance. This success inspired its teams another project of saving energy, being applied, this time on the air conditioning.

Examples of this nature, Antoine Héron has full records. Founder and President of honour of the network Innov' actors, it argues that this approach of participatory innovation or sustainable development. It was the central theme of the 2007 participative innovation Carrefour. The Edition held on 26 and 27 November in Paris will be the opportunity to make a balance. "This dynamic of participatory progress can perfectly apply to issues of sustainable development", he also wrote to Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet for inviting him to this event. In fact, whether or not they are members of Innov' actor, companies provide many examples.

Participatory innovation

The most common leverage of participatory innovation remains "ideas box" or trophies of sustainable development. The image of Accor (read below), the position or France Telecom. The proposals range from the simplest to the most technical. Many are linked to the economies of paper. Simple common sense. Thus a tarbais postman had an original idea of recycling paper. After grinding, it serves to stuffing packages of clients in place and place of foam. In the operator of Telecom, among the 2,000 innovative ideas going back all the months of the French employees, 50 are tinted green. Thus, in all the offices, a new racking appears, only destined for the white paper. Same with Michelin for the recovery of the containers and multiple packaging recycling. Proposals may be more complex. In France Telecom, several projects resulted in a system of signs to stores by solar panels. More complex still, new relay antennas deployed along the TGV Est. Termed "eco Site", they have a carbon footprint five times less than traditional antennas, while costing twice cheaper. In Renault, a worker has developed a machine suctioning of the films of oil on the water for washing machines. Finally, a part of the initiatives are purely spontaneous as EDF employees who suggested that a revegetation of some buildings. To the Ministry of defence employees recovered rainwater to wash some vehicles. In saffron, screen savers of computers are used to disseminate messages of awareness.

However, all is not so simple. It must manage the resistance to change, notes David Richard, Director, processing, performance and internal communication in France Telecom: "In some cases, the expert examining the technical solutions proposed by a layperson may tend to repel an innovative solution to which he had never thought." This resistance to change note even in people who have good ideas but are reluctant to offer them. It must also manage the frustration of those whose proposals are not selected. In France Telecom, one out of ten about results. Finally, most of these interesting initiatives are still fragmented.

Jean-Marc Jancovici, expert in business environment, the mobilization of employees is useful because it serves as a prod to the management. For him, these actions remain anecdotal. "To be actions to scale up to the challenge." Only directions of company can refocus their strategy in this sense. "For the moment, no major group has done, but things are changing," he said. The influence of Jean-Marc Jancovici, however, has begun an initiative of land: the Manicore site has become a famous Breviary of the enemies of the greenhouse effect.