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Keep it simple: Etienne Aubourg, CEO of AXA Technology Services, applies the lessons of manufacturing to AXA Group's Paris-based global technology organization.

Publication: Insurance & Technology
Publication Date: 01-APR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
WORKING WITH A MANUFACTURING plant manager at Dow Chemical in the late 1980s, Etienne Aubourg, now CEO of AXA Technology Services, tested the principle that what one does not do can be as important as what one does do. "That guy was desperate because he had so many different types of plastics," Aubourg recalls. "I achieved success at that time not by launching new products or applications, but by killing product and simplifying needs."

When Aubourg arrived at Paris-based AXAGroup (US$138.7 billion in consolidated 2007 revenue) in 2002 as head of IT and procurement, he found that he...

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