Who are we?

After creating CRiP in 2008, an association bringing together IT infrastructure and production managers, which now includes 350 organizations and 10,000 members, I realized that there was still no group that was truly independent of suppliers allowing all strategic and operational managers of technological transformation Major Groups, ETI and French-speaking Administrations to come together to share their best practices, accelerate their innovative projects and federate collective intelligence in favor of technological innovation.
So I created The Innovations Makers Alliance (IMA) in 2015, technological consortium, to meet the following challenges:
1. Bringing together all strategic and operational managers of technological innovation in business (Directions: DSI, Innovation, Digital, Data, Data, Data, Transformation, R&D, Jobs) in a circle of trust, independent of suppliers
2. Federate initiatives between Member Organizations to accelerate Time-to-Market, reduce engagement risks and optimize technology budgets
3. Open minds and allow inspiration of our members by introducing them to the work of their peers and the global ecosystem of tech partners, evaluated and recommended by their peers
4. enable access to all digital decision-makers member organizations, regardless of their department (DSI, innovation, professions, etc.), to the services of the IMA thanks to a single and modest contribution (for such a large consortium), a “no brainer”
5. Organizing the collective work of members on technological developments and new uses so that they can be a source of proposals for professions

The IMA immediately joined forces with ITIforums, our historical and strategic partner (in charge of managing the consortium, content, events, and partner relationships), our historical and strategic partner., based on a simple concept and a “Win Win” model that still exists today. It is thanks to this partnership that the IMA can organize quality events and always produce more added value for its members.
As you know, there are a lot of private and public initiatives around innovation and technologies... Especially to help startups: by incubating them, by helping them to benefit from public funding...But the IMA is unique, because the IMA focuses on the contrary on helping large companies and administrations, and this in a non-thematic way (we deal with all tech topics) and open to all tech departments and professions. I think we are bringing Something different and complementary, both for companies and administrations as well as for tech partners, by accelerating technological projects within our member organizations, and by helping them in their selection of partners.

This tremendous summary of collective intelligence did not exist and still does not exist elsewhere. that can be found at the IMA, produced by more than 8307 decision-makers in charge of the technological transformation of their companies, or initiatives which allows, as we do, to co-experiment and co-produce between large groups, nor platforms allowing the honest sharing of successes but also failures, so that everyone can benefit from the past experiences of others.
These are the ingredients that make the IMA successful and allow it to constantly grow and make its members ever more efficient in their jobs. Today, with more than 8307 members and more than 121 member organizations, including 3/4 of the CAC 40 and most major ministries, the IMA is now a incredible driver of the French digital and technological ecosystem, an extremely efficient consortium providing all its members with sharing high value-added content and allowing its ecosystem of partners direct access to the key decision-makers of the largest groups and administrations.

Thank you for your loyalty and your contribution!