Director of Boston Consulting Group's Institute for Organization Yves Morieux on his approach to efficiency – “relational productivity” – and the management of complexity for competitive advantage (Smart Simplicity, summarized in his TED Talks totaling 6M+ views).

Yves is a globally sought after advisor on corporate transformation and works with CEOs and leadership teams of the most prominent companies around the world on their transformation efforts. A contributor to the development of organization theory relating to the structural and behavioral conditions for economic value creation and competitive advantage, he has advised more than 500 organizations across industries around the world. He joined Boston Consulting Group in 1995, has been based in Paris, Mumbai, Washington DC and is now based in the UAE. He leads the firm's global development of approaches at the intersection of strategy, structures and behaviors to help corporations simultaneously increase productivity and employees' satisfaction at work.

Prior to joining BCG, Dr. Morieux was a Director in a private research and counseling practice that specialized in the application of stateofart results from social sciences to corporations, public organizations and markets. He holds a PhD in industrial marketing from the University of Strathclyde in the UK, a DEA in decision sciences & organizational sociology from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po), a postgraduate certificate in research and quantitative skills from the Scottish Business School, a MSc from SKEMA and is a Salzburg Seminar in American Studies alumnus. He has been a professor in the Advanced Decision Sciences & Organizational Sociology programs of the Paris Institute of Political Science, was social science expert for the French National Research Agency (ANR) and lectured in various executive development programs (Insead, IMD, Sciences Po). He has published two books, notably a bestseller translated in nine languages: Six Simple Rules – How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated, various scientific articles, book chapters, and forewords to management textbooks. He is frequently featured in the media or business press on the evolution of organizations and work including The Economist, The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Time, and Le Monde.

Source: Morieux, Y. (2022), New Ways of Working: The Social Economics of Productivity. In Hybride Arbeitsgestaltung / Shaping Hybrid Work Design, Cloots A. (ed.), Springer Nature.

Moderated by Daniele Pigni.