Reinventing industry

Le changement est dans l'R !

Designed by ateliers henry dougier (founder of éditions Autrement), this séries « tells the story » of remarkable individuals or teams whose originality has helped society reinvent itself. The common theme here is renovation, reconstruction, reconciliation and repair ... but also reverie, resistance and recovery. With these innovators, change is in the aiR !

Reinventing Industry : The Adventures of Joseph Puzo

France needs to stimulate industrial growth, but the French are doubtful. This book should change the way they look at factories. Joseph Puzo, an engineer, son of immigrant workers of Italian descent, was general manager of a cable-manufacturing SMI, which he took over in 1985 and brought to the cutting edge of technology. Today, his company, Axon', produces a range of cables that equip European satellites, the CERN particle accelerator and the Carmat artificial heart. Now a « pocket-sized » multinational, it employs 1,800 people, half of whom are in France, and can count itself among the innovative, export-oriented, mid-sized businesses that offer huge economic-development and job-creation opportunities.

As they follow Joseph Puzo's adventures, readers will discover there is a way to reinvent industry to make it into something both exciting and human : efficient, winning businesses, but also a place with which you would want to be associated.