Why does Colidée, a digital consultation platform, make sense in today's and tomorrow's world?

Colidée allows all ideas to be shared and to grow in order to find solutions that would be impossible to imagine alone and to accelerate their implementation. It is a tool for solidarity actions and projects that engage a group on a common path and for the general interest. It is an essential tool for building resilience and for adapting to new social, environmental and economic requirements.

Improving our family life after confinement, creating solidarity services in our neighbourhood, leading citizen reflection for our city, rethinking local mobility, organising teleworking, reinventing work spaces, rethinking the education system, rethinking social and environmental missions, rethinking the economic model, rethinking social life, questioning our acts of consumption or even thinking about the world of tomorrow... Topics of collective interest and solidarity actions are flourishing on the consultation platform!

Creating links and initiating social dialogue

"I gathered all my neighbours in a digital chat room with the intention of improving our life together. After a small flyer in the shops and schools in the neighbourhood, I saw an incredible number of ideas come in. It was unimaginable. The meetings foreseen by the traffic plan were supposed to gather 15 citizens. With Colidée, we gave all the inhabitants a voice! " Sandrine, a citizen of a neighbourhood in Saint SIMON, humbly recounts.
"I was used to using this tool in my professional life, but I had never tried it in a citizen's initiative. I realised how powerful it was and above all that not enough people were sharing their ideas.Since this consultation, quick solutions have already been implemented to improve traffic and safety in the neighbourhood. Other, more structural ideas are now being studied. Combining the experience of users and the expertise of municipal services is a guarantee of efficiency in order to see the results of the consultation. emerge concrete and relevant solutions.
"The most exciting thing is all the links that have been created between us. An experience to be repeated to animate this dynamic of consultation in the neighbourhood". Just like Sandrine's, public or private initiatives are multiplying on the platform. These are more than 30,000 ideas that are already exchanged on this French social network of a different kind. Colidée allows to create a new type of social dialogue, within the company or an organisation by allowing to very simply create spaces to collect ideas, to create communities of interest, to sort, "like", engage, follow, pin, analyse ideas...

Developing solutions of general interest

"When we launched the consultation on ETHICS VillageWith the opening of our new head office, we wanted to give our new workspace a soul. For about a year, all ETHICS Group employees worked together to imagine this workspace in terms of its organisation, functioning, structuring, decoration, tools, image, functionalities, digitalisation... until its inauguration with all our partners! We imagined it as a real third place to welcome young companies as well as other more mature companies at our side.  Today, three years later, ETHICS Village has become a third-party centre for the transformation of organisations and territories. In addition to the employees of our group who thrive there, some twenty mature companies or start-ups live there. Every year, more than 2,000 people come to visit it, to be inspired and to appreciate its unique soul and culture. An emblematic place for the " movement ". The Good Company ". "A pride for all of us! "explains Thierry enthusiastically.

"The consultation we were able to conduct with Colidée proved to be extremely effective for this long-term project. It was the collective intelligence of our team that did the talking. Today, the ETHICS Village is continually evolving and always in consultation. In July 2020, it was equipped with a new immersive transformation space for citizens and organisations, reinforcing its role as a third place and teleworking space for companies in a context of unprecedented crisis.
On Colidee, all participants are active and useful because the consultations are initiated by inspirational leaders or grassroots movementsThey are open and accessible, reliable and transparent. There is no hierarchy in the consultation spaces. Everyone can be a contributor and actor of progress. Everyone is enriched by the ideas of others, can follow the evolution of reflections and participate in the concretisation of participations.

In the consultation spaces, there is no hierarchy. Everyone can be a contributor and actor of progress. Each person is enriched by the ideas of others, can follow the evolution of the reflections and participate in the concretisation of participations. The resulting benefit is a relationship of trust which, in turn, will mobilise and strengthen the collective dynamic. This is a way to better live with the constant changes in one's ecosystem or organisation without having to deal with power games.
"With Colidée, which I discovered in the field, we launched a real consultation throughout our organisation for its cultural and managerial transformation. I was a bit sceptical at first, but the general commitment impressed me. After an alignment on the common sense, on our raison d'être and on our missions at the heart of our management committee, we widened our reflection by successive concentric circles to all employees. says Philippe, president of a company with 300 employees in the air transport sector. "The employees naturally got involved and at our annual staff convention we captured over 400 very pragmatic ideas with Colidée, the momentum was there. Afterwards, for almost a year, the organisation continued its consultations to draw up its strategic plan with the ideas of all its employees. "It was a richly instructive experience on the capacity of collective intelligence solicited by concertation and the indispensable support of Colidée, concludes Philippe.



Making a constantly evolving platform accessible

In Colidée, all the tools are there for everyone to useIt is a tool for analysing trends, gathering related ideas (semantic analysis and proximity algorithms), searching (advanced search engine, sorting, classification, tracking system), polling (polling and quizzing tool), voting and evaluating to finally make the right choices in the common interest.
It is also possible to follow consultation spaces (notification of participations) and other contributors, called "colideurs". Follow the ideas, appreciations and commitments of each person, but also directly connect on substantive subjects within the limits of the level of confidentiality chosen by each person.
In addition, Colidee is translated into English and allows everyone to benefit from a real-time translation in French, English or German of all entries. "It is one more way to facilitate the collection of ideas. Everyone can express themselves in the language of their choice. The language barrier is thus removed to obtain precise participations. " says Mark, a consultation facilitator for a large industrial group.
The platform communicates in a responsible and reasoned way to keep each Colideur informed and acculturated via a personal news feed and the editorial line integrated into the social network of consultation. Nothing intrusive but everything to stay connected through ideas and live in "networking". Everything you need to acculturate yourself to the principles of consultation and reap all the benefits.
It also relies on all the fundamentals of consultation and transformation to organise, structure, lead, analyse and synthesise projects conducted with collective intelligence in extremely varied contexts. "The tool itself evolves in constant consultation with all of ETHICS Group's expertise in organisational transformation and consultation. adds Clémence, who is responsible for leading its development.
"It's quite simple, all the organisational transformations that I accompany are done with the support of Colidée, which allows us to put all the stakeholders in a constructive and progressive spirit. This is a good way to accelerate and, above all, to build a shared vision of the future. It may come as a surprise, but I have never seen any resistance to the tool, which is easily adopted without any prior training. In fact, we don't introduce it, we use it! " says Marie, transformation facilitator. "The key point concerns the moderator or guarantor of the consultation. He or she must organise the issues to be discussed in a meticulous and relevant manner. Good structuring of the consultation area is a guarantee of success and of getting people on board.

Fostering transformation through collective intelligence

Stéphane, a governance and transformation facilitator, considers Colidée to be the essential tool for collaborative governance. "The Colidée consultation platform is an essential tool for breaking down the verticality and silos of the organisation in favour of collective intelligence. It is a very effective way of stimulating exchanges between profiles, experiences, histories and specialities on different company themes. In this way, arbitration is replaced by co-construction, always in a positive and progressive spirit. Ideas spread throughout the organisation and grow in a dynamic of sharing, intensive reflection and co-innovation on a collective scale with the possibility of opening up consultations to all stakeholders. It is therefore also a way of accelerating the company's development by strengthening its proximity to all its partners. Colidée is essential to collaborative governance, which is itself essential to give new impetus to the organisation in order to enter the 21st century and accelerate its transformation.
Colidée is a digital platform supporting the transformation of organisations and territories. A place conducive to exchange to mobilise heterogeneous skills at any time, over an appropriate period and with the same objective. Ideas and innovations emerge neither on command in a meeting, nor in the mind of a single person. Thanks to its multiplatform version, Colidée can collect all ideas via smartphone, tablet or computer at the time of the animation of a consultation in a dedicated time in physical or digital (word café, open forum, hackaton...) or outside any animation. No one is isolated and no idea is ignored.

Dans son usage, Colidée permet de rompre avec les habitudes en introduisant une autre façon d’agir ensemble et en se libérant des contraintes d’une organisation trop rigide. C’est un véritable support pour mener une transformation concertée et introduire progressivement une nouvelle culture du vivre et construire ensemble avec du fond et du sens. Une façon de souder et solidariser les équipes dans une ambition commune.

"We wanted to reorganise our governance in our Cooperative Society, which has 3,500 people throughout the country, to give it a new impetus and to federate a group resulting from several external growths. Our objective: to re-found a new leadership ambition and to achieve a cultural integration of our organisation. This was a major challenge. We therefore launched a vast plan for concerted transformation within our organisation in line with the movement "The Good Company" with its 9 fundamentals. The entire management line gradually entered into consultation with the support of Colidée. A real acculturation has taken place, not without difficulty, as habits have been shaken up" admits Thomas, president of a company in telecommunications. "There are more than 1,000 participations that we have collected in Colidée to become actors together, define the principles of management and organisation and anticipate the changes in our group. In line with this, we have also built our new head office in consultation with Colidée.
Colidée accelerates projects in a remarkable way. By facilitating a consultation in a plenary meeting or by videoconference, the theme being well posed and structured, it is possible in one hour to collect several hundred ideas. Ideas that call for others, ideas that complement each other, ideas that are reinforced, ideas that are released. In this way, everyone becomes an actor and contributor in a field of transparency. Then the ideas flow and the adhesion to the projects is strengthened.


"During the economic conference for the Toulouse metropolis employment recovery plan, more than 200 concrete ideas were captured in Colidée in 40 minutes in a videoconference bringing together a hundred or so economic players from all walks of life" says Jérôme, a trusted third party for the consultation. "A real accelerator in this period of all emergencies which calls for great reactivity while building a real consensus" he adds.

"I was asked to draw up this economic recovery plan for employment, and I could not conceive of it without a consultation with the economic players. With Colidée and the support of a videoconference tool, we managed to hold two consultations in record time during a period of confinement. This was an enrichment for everyone, with greater transparency and proximity. It is true that politicians are generally apprehensive about consultation. In the end, none of them held me back and the results clearly showed the value of such an approach. Colidée enabled us to collect everyone's ideas at the time of our meetings and during the week that followed each of these meetings before concluding with a summary made available to everyone. adds Dominique, a policy officer in a metropolis. "The recovery plan is, in the end, the product of good joint work.

A multi-purpose platform

The uses of Colidée are constantly increasing, as the strength of collective intelligence is a precious asset for the success of ambitious projects in the private or public sphere and in the personal or professional sphere. Here are some examples:

• An association that coaches young graduates to help them find a job, brought together all its partners and coaches for a consultation with Colidée in order to improve the follow-up of its sponsorships and to find the best ways to support its godchildren in stress management, self-confidence and assurance. "During this evening, punctuated by information, inspiration and consultation sessions, we received nearly a hundred contributions and, at the same time, we forged links between all the players who did not necessarily know each other. Now they are also connected through ideas with Colidée and our team has been able to improve its practices thanks to everyone's ideas. We are now connected through ideas with Colidée and our team has been able to improve its practices thanks to everyone's ideas," said his Regional Director.
• A public agency has brought together all its employees nationwide in a digitalized consultation with Colidée on improving air quality. More than 300 participations for a "great air quality experimentation project".
• A national bank used Colidée to reflect on the organisation and functioning of its head office during its total renovation. As part of its transformation plan and in the spirit of The Good Company, its team used the social network for consultation. "A transformation brought about by the digital environment and the arrival of new disruptive players. It is a collective transformation to unlearn and relearn and to give everyone the opportunity to take the initiative and their responsibilities. The Good Company echoes our organisation to embrace all our employees and take into account the Human for a real and deep transformation"Nicolas, Managing Director.
• A state-owned company specialising in defence launched a major concerted transformation plan throughout its international organisation. In concentric circles, the executive committee, the entire management line and then all white and blue collar employees were integrated into the consultation process through Colidée in various consultation forums as close to the field as possible, including in the factories. "Launching a transformation on this scale and with this participative spirit was unprecedented in a company that was rather anchored in conformism and a long history. Talents were revealed and a new energy found by reaching out to everyone. The consultation with Colidée has the merit of breaking down barriers, reducing the weight of the hierarchy and decompartmentalising the organisation. The road ahead is arduous and long, but essential if we are to succeed in tomorrow's world. "Thierry, President.
• "Our company, specialised in space, is the result of a merger of the activities of two international groups, and we have worked on integrating processes and cultures in a highly competitive global market. In less than two years, we have grown from 500 to 8,000 people. Our quality management system was put to the test, as were our processes, which cut across all business lines. To accelerate the upgrade, consolidate the system and ensure its compliance, we consulted a maximum number of players with Colidée, either face-to-face (all sites had a temporary consultation area) or remotely. Without this, it would have been impossible for us to meet the deadlines and, above all, to involve our employees in this subject, which sometimes seems too far from the operational side of things, but which is nonetheless essential to our smooth running. " André, president. It was also the transformation of the entire backbone of the organisation, with the evolution of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), which was carried out with the support of Colidée to bring together the business teams and the publisher's teams to make a success of this major project.
• Within the organisation of another large international group specialising in aeronautics, there were many uses in the context of the deployment of the SAFe agile method, in the support of the transformation of certain organisations... Let's mention an emblematic event which brought together 350 German, English, Spanish and French engineers who worked together for half a day to design their future in an intercultural context. 894 participants took part, following 7 themes ranging from "digital collaboration" to "the act of transformation" via "improving communication", "roles and responsibilities in the SAFe method", "knowledge of processes", "life in one's daily work" and "agility with SAFe".

"This PLM Galaxy event was an incredible adventure that left its mark on everyone. It was the first event of its kind, with a large-scale consultation where everyone was able to express themselves and put forward their ideas. Colidée played a central role in being able to collect more than 1,000 contributions in record time, with instantaneous translations so that everyone could express themselves in their mother tongue for the most sensitive points, to provide an analysis of the trends in real time and then to show great transparency in the process undertaken. A good sign of trust that has strengthened the links. "Antoine, VP in charge of the IT department related to engineering.
"Colidée is more than a tool, it is part of a field of human transformation, of awareness of the power of collective intelligence and of a true acculturation to working together. Personally, it was a challenge to go deep inside myself to find other resources to embody a profound and unavoidable change. Learning to leave behind certain conformisms that have been built up with the history of the builder. Today, this is an asset even if there is a long way to go in a context that has dramatically deteriorated. There is no doubt that Colidée is a singular collaborative platform that has its raison d'être to co-construct the new world. Pierre, VP.

• With its integration project "We are One", an industrial group, also used Colidée to "foster team intimacy while pushing an entrepreneurial culture in a challenger state of mind following the takeover of another company's activities" Marc, group president.
• The voluntary and regulatory consultations for the 3rd Toulouse metro line, which preceded the public enquiry, were carried out with Colidée. "The entire consultation phase was successfully conducted until the validation of our file with the CNDP (Commission Nationale du Débat Public). Colidée provided us with an open and continuous consultation with the citizens. An excellent support that supported the neutral third party guarantor for a great transparency and easy access. "Jean-Michel, president of the mobility organising authority.
• It is also, universities, schools and colleges that have used Colidée to reinvent themselves and federate their teams in a new participatory and collaborative dynamic.

Building the world of tomorrow

Colidea takes on its full meaning to design in concert the world of the future. As Gilles Babinet points out in his book "Digital Transformation: the advent of platforms: "Digital transformation: the advent of platforms": "Open innovation in the digital age essentially boils down to massive access to generic ideas and techniques in a simple way, via the internet, while allowing innovators to exchange in a multipolar model, in which the initiative is no longer taken by the leader but by all the sub-parties of the group."

And he adds, referring to business transformation: "All of them are stumbling over the same issue: that of changing the very culture of the company, its management style and its hierarchical system in order to better adapt to the digital revolution. This is not surprising, as the nature of an organisation is intrinsically linked to that of the people who run it. Now, the vast majority of these people were trained in the 20th century; their management methods are effective when applied to highly hierarchical companies in which the Taylorist division of labour reigns, and whose information exchange models were structured at a time when communications were limited to the telephone, the fax and, to a certain extent, to information systems. These systems have little in common with those of the digital revolution. Steve Jobs said "To create is simply to connect things, with Colidéewe say "creating is simply connecting ideas" in a culture of sharing and associating ideas, often from different worlds, and we add that it is the way to live in resonance with oneself, others and the world! Colidée is therefore more than a digital platform, more than a social network for consultation, more than a new generation social network, Colidée is a means of culturally transforming organisations and territories, a novel means of bringing together skills, a means of bringing out breakthrough innovations for a new world. It is in the spirit of "The Good Company", in collective intelligence, in permanent consultation, by mobilising all the talents, with a concerted governance and a singular culture that ETHICS Group has forged the foundations of Colidée.