Michel Saloff Coste
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Michel Saloff Coste is a professor at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, in the Executive Development department, and co-founder of the 'Club of Budapest France' - an international non-profit organisation dedicated to implying citizens into discussing complex global issues - and a member of its executive committee. [1] He has also published several books, including Vêpres Laquées (Baudouin, 1979); Paris la nuit (Balland, 1982); Les Horizons du Futur (Guy Trédaniel, 2001); Le management systémique de la complexité (Aditech Ministère de la Recherche, 1990); Le management du troisième millénaire (Guy Trédaniel, 1991, 1999 and 2005); and Trouver son génie (Guy Trédaniel, 2005.) He is a global futurist and change catalyst working with international corporations and government to develop insights into alternative futures.
Michel Saloff Coste was born June 28, 1955.
[edit] Work experience
After completing his formal education, he worked as a consultant in communication, strategy and management, and eventually got involved in more fundamental research on these topics. In 1991, he joined Bossard Consultants, a top leading European consultancy firm, as head of R&D within 'Bossard Institute'. In 1993 he created his own research and consultancy firm MSC ET ASSOCIES (Management, Strategy, and Communication) specialized in global governance , Information Society and sustainable development. He has been President of MSC ET ASSOCIES since its foundation. [2] From 1995 to 1997 he directed a permanent multidisciplinary workshop at the Ministry of Research in France, on the topic of societal change, and geared toward devising a new epistemological framework. He is a co-founder of New Cap Invest - a venture capital company dedicated to promoting highly innovative companies.
[edit] Research focus and contributions
Michel Saloff-Coste's research focuses on the paradigm shift within the Information society that he himself defines as a 'Creation-Communication society'. He elaborated a structural grid that defines the evolution of civilization in four waves – namely 'hunting & gathering', 'agriculture & breeding,' 'industry & commerce,' and 'creation & communication'. Then he analysed the interaction between different representation fields (which he calls 'reality fields'). He developed further his framework with Carine Dartiguepeyrou and together they articulated ten long-term visions of the future called 'horizons'; their collaborative work was published in a co-authored book Les horizons du futur.
