Challenges never stop changing.
What makes the difference is how you respond.
La Machine ronde brings your teams together to co-create solutions grounded in your reality — and built to take hold.
Collaborative design helps create new solutions.
CSR helps guide the right choices.
Each of our formats delivers tangible evidence of commitment that can be put to use immediately, while building your teams’ capacity to tackle the challenges ahead.
Your reality doesn’t need fixing.
It’s where we start.
10-minute questionnaire · An initial map of where you stand · No sensitive data · Free
Future of Work
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Talent Attraction
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Collective innovation
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Value chains
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Biodiversity
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Regenerative
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Local ecosystems
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Credible Commitments
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Innovation collective
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AI & Work
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Future of Work 〰️ Talent Attraction 〰️ Collective innovation 〰️ Value chains 〰️ Biodiversity 〰️ Regenerative 〰️ Local ecosystems 〰️ Credible Commitments 〰️ Innovation collective 〰️ AI & Work 〰️
What if every challenge became an opportunity ?
A few examples of where collaborative design and CSR can turn challenges into opportunities for transformation.
Unlock a problem that won’t go away.
Innovate from frontline expertise.
Systems thinking · Innovation · Problem solving
Attract and retain differently.
Give people a reason to stay.
Engagement · Employer brand · Quality of working life · Collaboration
Break down silos.
Bring functions together to solve problems differently.
Collaboration · Cross-functional work · Collective intelligence
Turn tenders into a driver for innovation.
CSR · Value proposition · Innovation · Credible commitments
Make your commit ments credible.
Turn intentions into distinctive proof.
CSRD · VSME · Reporting · Communication · Référencement fournisseur
Integrate AI on your own terms.
Evolve rather than replace.
Future of work · Skills · AI
Whatever the challenge, the approach remains the same.
Understand in context. Co-create and put into action.
Learn by doing.
Navigating complexity
Put challenges into context and align on priorities.
The best decisions are grounded in a shared framework: CSR helps guide those choices.
Turning challenges into action
Explore, test and put solutions into action — immediately and without adding complexity to the organisation — through collaborative design.
The best solutions are co-created with key stakeholders and tested through action.
Making change last
Track, adjust and assess impact to turn commitments into lasting change and build team autonomy.
Successful transitions strengthen the organisation’s capabilities over time.
Our formats at a glance.
Whether they run for three hours or six months, all our formats are built around the same principles:
Right-sized, focused and iterative
Adapted to your starting point
Designed to fit in
Led by an internal team
Focussed on action
Built to last
Removing the barriers.
What commonly gets in the way of change — and how to move past it.
Struggling to make decisions in complexity?
Cartographier et clarifier les priorités.
Standards and frameworks hard to navigate?
Prioritise your challenges through the lens of CSR frameworks — not the other way around.
Short on time and worried about additional costs?
Use short formats designed to fit in, led by an internal team, to move into action quickly.
Worried you’ll have to (re)invent everything?
Build on what already exists and guide innovation from start to finish.
Resistance to change?
Build a team of ambassadors. Equip teams with the skills and tools to become more autonomous.
Transformation fatigue?
Make your culture a driver for change.
One approach for organisations and schools.
The challenges organisations face today are the best way to learn how to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.
The same approach is offered to organisations and schools, with formats adapted to each context.
For organisations
Turn a real challenge into an opportunity for action while strengthening the organisation’s capacity to respond over time.
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Explore a challenge before taking action.
A short introductory workshop to understand a contemporary issue, establish a shared framework and open up new possibilities for action, starting from a real challenge within your organisation.
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Turn a challenge into collective action.
A multi-step collaborative process to understand a challenge, develop a response that fits, test it quickly and produce initial evidence of commitment.
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Build the organisation’s capabilities for the long term.
Long-term support to embed learning, strengthen collaborative practices and turn each challenge into a new capability for the organisation.
For schools
Experience the same approach through contemporary challenges, and learn how to tackle those of tomorrow.
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Discover collaborative design through a contemporary challenge.
A first hands-on experience of Human-Centered Design applied to an organisational challenge. Students learn a problem-solving approach by experiencing it rather than studying it.
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Build a collective response to a complex challenge.
Working from a case inspired by challenges faced by organisations, students use collaborative design, systems thinking and CSR as a framework for making choices to design, articulate and test their responses.
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Learn how to lead a transformation project.
Across several sessions, students progressively build their ability to analyse a challenge, collaborate, experiment, iterate and present a proposal to a project sponsor.
“ Les organisations font face à des enjeux interdépendants : climat, recrutement, réglementation, compétences, gouvernance, attentes des parties prenantes ...
Mon rôle consiste à traduire ces enjeux complexes en dynamiques appropriables, adaptées à votre réalité et capables de prendre vie dans l'organisation.
Pour que chaque défi devienne un apprentissage, chaque solution une ressource, et que ce qui fonctionne puisse être mis à l'échelle.”