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Sihem JOUINI

Associate Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

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Biography

Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini is an associate professor of innovation in the ISOM department (Information Systems and Operations Management) and researcher at GREGHEC since January 2006. She teaches project management, new product development processes and management of innovation in Executive Education, Exec MBA, MBA and Masters. She is scientific director of the MS X-HEC Entrepreneurs, of the Project Innovation Design (PIC) major and of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation major (Executive MBA).

Her research focuses on the management of breakthrough innovations, the organization of exploration and the development processes of new products. It deals with how to develop breakthrough innovations which renew the activity of the firm ? How to learn from exploration projects and how to organize them?

She is also interested in the role of design in innovating and transforming organizations.

She has published several research articles (Journal of Product Innovation Management, Creativity Innovation Management, International Journal of Project management, Finance Contrôle Stratégie, Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Management International, International Journal of Innovation Management, Research Technology Management , Revue Française de Gestion, etc.) and has contributed to several books (Doing research in project management, Innovation based competition and design systems dynamics, From idea to market, Great authors in innovation management, etc. ). She has also edited several books (Management of Innovation and Globalization, Management of disruptive innovations, Networks: strategic and organizational dimensions, Co-design and interaction knowledge, etc.).

She regularly participates in the following conferences: AIMS, International Association of Strategic Management; AoM, Academy Of Management; BCERC, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference; EGOS, European Group of Organizational Studies; EURAM, European Academy of Management; IPDMC, International Product Development Conference; IRNOP, International Research Network on Organizing by Projects, etc).

Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini graduated from Ecole Centrale Lille as an engineer. After experience in a design office, she opted for an academic career. She obtained a DEA in Scientific Methods of Management and a doctorate from the University of Paris 9 Dauphine. She carried out her research at the Management Research Center of the Ecole Polytechnique (CRG) where she is still an associate researcher. She was a lecturer at the University of Paris 11 where she supervised the master's degree in Management Sciences. She has been visiting Stern Business School (NYU) and Babson College.

She held the Innovation and Globalization Chair (Orange) and the Innovation Management in Aeronautics Chair (Safran).

She intervened, as part of her research at the Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Vinci, Incuballiance, Ministry of Equipment, Thales, Valeo, Air Liquide, Essilor, Danone, Orange, etc.

Scientific articles

Platform re-use lessons from the automotive industry

International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 2010, vol. 30, n° 1, pp 98-124, (in coll. with S. Lenfle)

Entrepreneuriat familial et stratégies de pérennité. Conception au concept d'innovation prudentielle

Management International, 2009, vol. 14, n° 1, pp 25-41, (in coll. with S. MIGNON)

Absorptive Capacity and Source-Recipient Complementarity in Designing New Products: An Empirically Derived Framework

Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2008, vol. 25, n° 5, pp 473-490, (in coll. with C. Abecassis-Moedas)

Enhancing Discontinuous Innovation through Knowledge Combination: The Case of an Exploratory Unit within an Established Automotive Firm

Creativity and Innovation Management, June 2008, vol. 17, n° 2, pp 127-135, (in coll. with F. Charue-Duboc)

Favoriser l'innovation radicale dans une entreprise multidivisionnelle. Discussion du modèle ambidextre à partir de l'analyse d'un cas

Finance Contrôle Stratégie, September 2007, vol. 10, n° 3, pp 5-41, (in coll. with F. Charue-Duboc, F. Fourcade)

Quand l'évaluation constitue un objet d'apprentissage significatif pour l'entreprise innovante en création

La Revue des Sciences de Gestion, May-June 2006, n° 219, pp 45-55, (in coll. with S. Charreire-Petit, N. Claret)

Conception d'un projet de service dans une bureaucratie professionnelle : Le cas d'un projet immobilier et de soin

Sciences de Gestion, 2004, n° 45, pp 17-49,

Time to market vs. Time to delivery. Managing speed in Engineering Procurement and construction projects

International Journal of Project Management, July 2004, vol. 22, n° 5, pp 359-367, (in coll. with G. Garel, C. Midler)

Innovative based supply strategies in the construction industry

Construction Management & Economics, September 2000, vol. 18, n° 6, pp 643-650,

Compétition par l'innovation et dynamique des systèmes de conception dans les entreprises françaises. Remarques à partir de la confrontation, de trois secteurs

Entreprises et Histoire, October 1999, n° 23, pp 36-62, (in coll. with C. Midler)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Critères de sélection des partenaires dans un projet mené en coopération. Eclairages à partir du cas d'une grande entreprise de la défense européenne.

Actes de la XVIIIème conférence de l'AIMS , 2009 , Grenoble (V. Megaides)

The role of new product development process in market creation, The case of a high-tech start-up

Proceedings of the 16th International Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) , 2009 , Twente (P. Silberzhan, C. Midler)

A Practice-based analysis of technological strategy formulation: Spanning levels between middle and top management

Proceedings, EGOS conference , 2007 , Vienne (F. Charue-Duboc)

Absorptive capacity, source Knowledge and new product development performance : an exploratory study of design

Proceeding of the 14th International Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) , 2007 , Porto (C. Abecassis-Moedas)

Working papers

Scientific articles

Intermediate, Local and Glocal Innovation Models for MNCs Targeting Emerging Markets: The Case of a European Telco Operator in Africa and the Middle East

Management International, 2020, vol. 24, n° Hors-séri, pp 20-35, (in coll. with M. HADENGUE, F. CHARUE-DUBOC)

Introduction numéro spécial Innovations, Espaces et Territoires

Finance Contrôle Stratégie, 2020, n° NS-9, pp 1-4, (in coll. with F. Charue-Duboc, T. PARIS)

Unpacking the notion of prototype archetypes in the early phase of an innovation process

Creativity and Innovation Management, July 2020, vol. 29, n° 1, pp 49-71, (in coll. with C. MIDLER)

Establishing relationships with distant suppliers to explore discontinuous innovation

International Journal of Technology Management, 2019, vol. 81, n° 3-4, pp 143-165, (in coll. with F. CHARUE-DUBOC)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Comment passer d’une démarche réactive à une démarche proactive fondée sur stratégies d’offres innovantes ? Le cas des grandes entreprises générales de Bâtiment Françaises

De L'Idée Au Marché - Processus D'Innovation Et Lancement De Produits Nouveaux, A. Bloch, D. Manceau (Eds), Vuibert, 6 , 340-361

Design Process and Innovation Based Supplies Strategy - the case of major contractors in the French construction industry

Innovation Based Competition &Amp; Design Systems Dynamics, P. J. Benghozi, F. Charue-Duboc, C. Midler (Eds), Editions L'Harmattan, 75-92

Supply based strategies. The case of the French building contractors

Projects As Business Constituents And Guiding Motives, F. Hartmann, R. Lundin (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 143-154

Proceedings

Critères de sélection des partenaires dans un projet mené en coopération. Eclairages à partir du cas d'une grande entreprise de la défense européenne.

Actes de la XVIIIème conférence de l'AIMS , 2009 , Grenoble (V. Megaides)

The role of new product development process in market creation, The case of a high-tech start-up

Proceedings of the 16th International Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) , 2009 , Twente (P. Silberzhan, C. Midler)

A Practice-based analysis of technological strategy formulation: Spanning levels between middle and top management

Proceedings, EGOS conference , 2007 , Vienne (F. Charue-Duboc)

Absorptive capacity, source Knowledge and new product development performance : an exploratory study of design

Proceeding of the 14th International Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) , 2007 , Porto (C. Abecassis-Moedas)

Working papers

Education

  • Doctorat en Sciences de Gestion (Ph.D. in Management), Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies Methodes scientifiques de gestion , Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • Ingenieur, Ecole Centrale de Lille - France
  • Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies "Systemes de gestion", Université Lille 2 Droit et Santé - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2021- Academic Director of X-HEC Entrepreneur Program HEC Paris
  • 2012-2018 « Management de l'Innovation et Globalisation » (France Télécom-Orange) Professor HEC Paris
  • 2012-2016 Responsable the chaire/certificate "SAFRAN Innovation Management in Aeronautics" HEC Paris
  • 2011- Responsable of the major "Innovation & Entrepreneurship at l'Exec-MBA" HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Member of Academy of Management (Divisions Technology Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Operations Management)
  • Member of EGOS (European Group of Organizational Studies)
  • Member of EIASM (European Institute for advanced studies in management) organizer of EURAM (European academy of Management) and IPDMC (International Product Development Management Conference)
  • Member of AIMS (Association Internationale de Management Strategique)
  • Member of IRNOP (International Research Network on Organizing by Projects)
  • Representation de HEC au CRCI (Centre de Reflexion sur la Conception et l'Innovation) cree par Roland Berger et Dassault Systemes.
  • Member, Strategic Management Society (SMS)
  • Memberof association EURAM
  • member of the association ATLAS

Editorial activities

  • June 2015- Guest editor, Management International Vol. 19 Issue 4

  • Conference organisation

  • 2022-2022 Webinar "When design thinking clashes with the existing business culture" with Lisa Carlsgren, Senior Researcher at Rise Research Institutes of Sweden, & Sihem Jouini, Professor of Innovation Management at HEC Paris
  • 2010- (PDW) Design-Bases Innovation: Domains of Application at the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Montréal, Canada.
  • 2009- (PDW) Design-Driven Innovation, Academy of Management, Chicago, USA
  • 2008- Professional Development Workshop (PDW), Celine Abecassis-Moedas (Catholic University of Portugal) et Stefan Meisiek (New University of Lisbon) «Design Management: Definition of a field Academy of Management
  • 2005- Performance and Organizational Learning, Faculté Jean Monnet, Paris Sud University
  • 2004- Atelier l 'ANRT, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, l'Institut Pasteur, Leti-Minatec, Valeo et Rhodia, Products and Knowledge development coupling: toward a new model for the RSD
  • 2002- Faculté Jean Monnet-Université Paris Sud - "Network organizational and strategic dimensions"
  • Membre du comité d'organisation du séminaire "Management de l'Innovation - théories et pratiques" (Ecole Polytechnique, HEC Paris, Mines ParisTech, Sciences Po Grenoble)
  • Awards & honors

    • 2025 2025 HEC Foundation award for the best paper with Romaric Servajean-Hilst Jonathan Langlois
    • 2020 Best Paper Award of Research-Technology Management Journal, for her 2019 published article co-authored with Didier Boulet, Chief Design Officer of Thales, and Sebastian Fixson, Professor at Babson College, "Making Design Thinking Work Adapting an Innovation Approach to Fit a Large Technology-Driven Firm"
    • 2008 Prix de la Fondation HEC pour l'article "Favoriser l'innovation radicale dans une entreprise multidivisionnelle. Extension du modele ambidextre a partir de l'analyse d'un cas", Finance - Controle - Strategie, vol. 10, n 3, septembre 2007
    • 2007 Best Paper Award Finalist, AOM, TIM Division
    • 2001 Prix Vinci de l'Innovation "Knowledge sharing"
    • 1999 Fullbright Fellowship