CV Michel Godet

 

Michel Godet, born in 1948, is a full professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), where he holds the Chair in Strategic Prospective.  Professor Godet is also an elected member of the French Academy of Technology. and an active participant in the French Council of Economic Analysis (Cae) reporting to the Prime Minister.  He sits on the administrative board of several think-tanks such as the Institute Montaigne and Robert Schuman European Foundation and acts as a facilitator for the Circle of Entrepreneurs of the Future which organizes the annual Grand Prix de l’impertinence. 

Over the past twenty years, Michel Godet has provided consulting services in strategic foresight to many corporations including Renault, the Paris Airport, AXA, Bongrain, Boulanger, BASF, Bouygues Construction, Colas, Société Générale Crédit Mutuel, Décathlon, Nexans, Presse Régionale, SPIE Trendel, SOFINCO as well as local groups, and national ministries or departments (Defence, Education, Air transportation, Labor, Housing, DATAR). He has also worked with several international groups.  Since 1988, Godet has been active in the Association for Progress in Management (APM).

Michel Godet has taken part in several official missions: in 1986, the mission The Education and Society of Tomorrow; in 1993; the Mattéoli Commission on Structural Obstacles to Employment; in 1994-5 and the Labor Commission on Employment for the Year 2015.  In 1996, Michel Godet was mandated by the labor and social affairs minister to lead an informal mission with the results published in a report “De l’activité à l’emploi par l’insertion” (From Activity to Employment through Insertion).  In 2004-5, for the Cae, Michel Godet co-wrote with Evelyne Sullerot a report entitled “La Famille, une affaire publique” (The Family, a Public Matter), published in 2009.  Professor Godet also published with Marc Mousli a paperback in the French Documentation series entitled “Le vieillissement, une bonne nouvelle?” (Aging, Good News? )

 

In 2009-10, Michel Godet presided over a joint group on employment, the Cae-Datar-Academy of Technology on the topic Creativity and Innovation in the Regions.  This report was reprinted under the title “Libérer l’innovation dans les territoires”  (Unleash Innovation in the Regions).

Back in 2000, Professor Godet worked to have the National Centre for Entrepreneurship (CNE) created as an institute within the CNAM based in Lorraine and present in 11 regions of France.

Since 2003, Michel Godet has led the Circle of Entrepreneurs of the Future, a program of the Fondation Prospective et innovation.  This Circle, comprised of some fifty partner-corporations, has made available online in three languages at no cost the prospective method (techniques for workshops, scenario building, game theory).  The Circle organizes the annual Grand Prix de l’impertinence (Prize for Impertinent Thinking) and supports entrepreneurial endeavors.

 

Michel Godet has published some fifteen works, several translated into different languages and some selling over 40,000 copies.  His book entitled “Emploi: le grand mensonge” (Employment:  the Big Lie) published with Fixot and Pocket was awarded the French book prize on the topic of  labor change. 

In 2007,  Dunod published Michel Godet’s third edition of the manual of strategic prospective in two volumes (Une indiscipline intellectuelle and L’art et la méthode).  An English-language adaptation, Creating Futures : Scenario-planning as a strategic management tool” was published by Economica-Brookings, second edition in  2006, available online since January 2009.

A member of the editorial board, Michel Godet also collaborates on special issues like Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC) Strategic Foresight  Volume 77, Issue 9, 2010 (Guest editor with Philippe Durance and Joesph Coates).

 

In 2011, Michel Godet and Philippe Durance publish with Dunod and UNESCO a reference work, Introduction à La prospective stratégique  pour les entreprises et les territoires with an English version following,
Strategic Foresight for Corporate and Regional Development.  This publication is going online in seven languages with the support of the Fondation Prospective et innovation and will be made available in bilingual editions as of 2011 and 2012.

 

Professor Godet’s Le choc de 2006, published by Odile Jacob, received the French annual Economic Book Prize.Another book, Le Courage du bon sens pour construire l’avenir autrement, also published by Odile Jacob,  appeared in a third updated and expanded edition in 2009. .Michel Godet’s latest work, Bonnes nouvelles des Conspirateurs du futur, published by Odile Jacob, appeared in March 2011.
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