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Jacques Setton Headquarters Honorary President of the CICF Informatique (1) Professional Society |
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About the FounderProfessional Career Jacques Setton acquired a broad technical and commercial experience built over thirty year in the High-Tech industry addressing innovative fields like Biomedical Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Unified Messaging, Telecommunications, Voice & Data Convergence and Internet Portals. After a long career spent with major multi-national corporations (Thomson Medical, Delalande Research, Digital Equipment Corp. and Lucent Technologies), Jacques founded his own consulting company – WayCast Development – in 2003, whose objective is to assist enterprises study and deploy innovative information & communication technology solutions. Jacques has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Technology of Israel (equivalent to MIT) and a Master of Science in Bio-electronics & Computing from the California State University in Sacramento (USA). He later-on followed an Executive MBA curriculum in Paris and completed a course in Small Enterprise Management at the CRC Institute (HEC Group). Finally, Jacques is offically certified in Electronic Document & Enterprise Content Management (ECM) by the University of Angers, in close partnership with the SERDA / Archimag Group. Acquired Skills - Business development, opportunity study, project management, partner coordination and solution implementation in the areas of telecommunications, enterprise productivity and virtualized operation as well as on-line service portals. - Multi-domain distributed team building and coordination in highly dynamic and rapidly evolving environments. |
About the CompanyExpertise Domains WayCast Development helps enterprises analyze, specify, select and roll-out productivity and virtualized operation solutions based on innovative Web 2.0 technologies which address the key following areas : - Virtual and Collaborative Working, - Enterprise Content & Knowledge Management, - Domain Process Automation, - Convergent Telecommunications (IP Telephony, Web-Conference, Unified Messaging, etc.). The name 'WayCast’ means literally : ‘casting' a ‘way’ (route) leading to the successful deployment of innovative solutions to help the enterprise improve its operational efficiency and market competitiveness. Focus Activities WayCast Development delivers its consulting missions to private enterprises, mainly SME's, and to public institutions. The initially targeted market sector concerns mainly 'Service Delivery to Professionals and Enterprises', including Business Centers, Personnel Skills & Career Management, Legal & Accounting Management, Insurance & Finance, Real Estate Management, etc. The proposed solutions implementation is carried out in close partnership with selected technology suppliers and organizational change management consultants. Contribution Areas - Analysis : opportunity assessment, current state auditing, recommendations, specification requirements production. - Implementation : tendering, project management, process reengineering, change management, application tuning. - Operation : users training and support, operations support and supervision, results and usage analysis. |