• “Speed-dating” sessions between professionals (within a given Group or between order givers and sub-contractors)

• Renewing tools and types of dialogue within trade organizations

• Auditing relationship capital: analyzing visible and invisible networks, types of connexion and idea-sharing, frequency of internal as well as external contacts

Finding oneself again

Beware of the invader: emails, smartphones, teleconferencing, Google, Facebook! Whatever happened to physical contact, pure and simple?

Illustration: Gustave Courbet – The meeting, or Good-day, Monsieur Courbet, Musée Fabre, Montpellier (detail)