Question 1 – Missions, activités et fonctionnement de Danone Communities – 4

points

MISSION: As a socially responsible company, Danone Communities is launched in

order to better practice this principal mission: Alleviate Poverty, which means to
alleviate malnutrition, to make drinking water safe, and to break the cycle of poverty.
With the help of local experts and entrepreneurs around the globe, inclusive
businesses could bring market-based solutions to the communities.

ACTIVITIES: Danone Communities pursues to create social good by supporting

amounts of social-friendly or innovative projects all over the world. More precisely,
Danone Communities achieve its mission by supporting activities in 4 aspects: Grow
Market Based Inclusive Business Solutions; Accelerate Talents; Inspire Change and
also Spark Innovation. For example, Gramen Danone Foods, a yogurt factory in
Bangladesh focused primarily on bringing better health to malnourished children is
founded. Based on the local market, the factory collects milk from small farmers. And
the sale is conducted by women or “micro-entrepreneurs” in a door-to-door way.

OPERATION: Danone Communities is a SICAV, who is open to all investors,

involved with the Danone company, its employees, the external institutions and the
general public. Danone Communities invests approximately 8% of its assets in social
or environmentally friendly projects. These projects are selected and took in charged
by some expert groups of Danone. And these funded projects are intended to make
profits. Once they have achieved equilibrium, Danone Communities will support them
in the form of an incubator.

Question 2 – Les concepts pour comprendre Danone Communities – 6 points

Concept 1
a) Définissez le concept identifié
For companies, innovation is complex and difficult. The ideal state of the
company is an innovative organization. There are several levers that can help the
company quickly achieve this goal. A corporate culture that supports the
innovation is the most important.
b) Illustrez le concept à partir de Danone Communities
As a socially responsible company, Danone Communities pursues to create social
good and a sustainable development by supporting amounts of innovative projects
all over the world. Social innovation is his strategy. All his activities are based on
this principal idea. Danone Communities has a strong initiative corporate culture
that supports and stimulates the innovation.

Concept 2
a) Définissez le concept identifié
 Social innovation is about developing new responses to new or poorly met social
needs under current market and policy conditions by involving the participation
and cooperation of relevant stakeholders. “Social innovation is not the prerogative
or privilege of any organizational form or legal structure. Solutions often require
the active collaboration of constituents across government, business, and the
nonprofit world.”
b) Illustrez le concept à partir de Danone Communities
Danone Communities believes inclusive businesses can help solve the world’s
greatest social challenges, and social innovation is efficient. So, they invest
amounts of innovative projects all over the world, involve with local people and
grow market-based inclusive business solutions. For example, Gramen Danone
Foods, a yogurt factory in Bangladesh focused primarily on bringing better health
to malnourished children is founded. Based on the local market, the factory
collects milk from small farmers. And the sale is conducted by women or
“micro-entrepreneurs” in a door-to-door way.

Concept 3
a) Définissez le concept identifié
Concurrent project management is different than the traditional product
development approach in that it employs simultaneous, rather than sequential,
processes. By completing tasks in parallel, product development can be
accomplished more efficiently and at a substantial cost savings. Rather than
completing all physical manufacturing of a prototype prior to performing any
testing, concurrent engineering allows for design and analysis to occur at the same
time, and multiple times, prior to actual deployment. This multidisciplinary
approach emphasizes teamwork through the use of crossfunctional teams, and it
allows for employees to work collaboratively on all aspects of a project from start
to finish.
b) Illustrez le concept à partir de Danone Communities
Danone Communities pursues to create social good by supporting and investing
amounts of innovative projects all over the world. In the meanwhile, Danone
Communities uses concurrent project management method. Design, Marketing,
Purchasing, Production, Launching and Service are simultaneous for multiple
projects. And it emphasizes teamwork among project groups and local experts.

Question 3 – Stratégie d’innovation de Danone – 6 points

Expliquez la stratégie d’innovation de Danone :

Involving and gathering people and innovative ideas as many as possible is the
innovation strategy of Danone. The more people, the greater the power. In addition to
strengthening the company's internal innovation, Danone has paid more attention to
the external innovation outside the company. Through social innovation, relevant
stakeholders participate in innovation and provide new answers to their own social
needs.
Expliquez comment Danone Communities contribue à la stratégie d’innovation
de Danone
By supporting and founding innovative projects all over the world, Danone
Communities contributes to the innovation strategy of Danone. The invested projects
are mostly involving with accelerating talents, inspiring change and sparking
innovation. Through investment, Danone Communities helps the external innovation

Qu’est-ce qui pourrait limiter la contribution de Danone Communities à la

stratégie d’innovation de Danone ?
As we all know, the founded projects are selected by a small group of 6 people, which
means 6 people decide if an innovative idea is meaningful. This can lead to deviations
and errors. Determining whether an innovative project makes sense needs the great
foresight and sagacity. It is irresponsible and unscientific to decide the value of an
innovative project by only 6 people. It will limit Danone Communities’ contribution.

Question 4 – Evaluation de Danone Communities – 4 points

Proposez et justifiez une liste de 4 critères permettant d’évaluer Danone

Communities. Pour ce faire : remplir le tableau suivant :

Critère Justification Mesure

Critère 1 Financial- economic In contrast to cash donations, funded projects Danone Communities
benefit are intended to make a profit. can gain profits by
Already four of these "social business" have investment, and the
reached the balance, says Miora investment projects run
Ranaivoarinosy, the spokesperson of the well. So, in the financial
team. aspect, Danone
Communities perform
well.
Critère 2 Social impact Danone Communities carried out 10 social In the aspect of social
business across 12 countries. There’re one impact, Danone
million beneficiaries. Communities seeks
human’s good. So he
performs very well.
Critère 3 Risk The founded projects are selected by a small It is irresponsible and
group of 6 people. unscientific to decide
the value of an
innovative project by
only 6 people. The risk
is high. So Danone
Communities performs
badly.
Critère 4 Business model With the experience gained from these first Danone Communities’
projects, the Danone Communities teams are business model is an
now developing teaching modules and replicable model. So
sharing experiences to be fully implemented Danone Communities’
on a global scale. success can be promoted
globally. In the aspect of
business model, he
perform very well.