Previous Experience
- Researcher in Molecular Physics
- Project Leader in IT implementation projects
- Consultant in Information Technology Management, Project Management, Networked Organizations Management
Present situation
- Professor in EM LYON, Lyon Graduate School of Management - Teaching areas: Management of Information Systems - e-Business - Project Management
- e-Learning Project Manager: responsible for the development of pedagogical method in e-learning, and blended learning
- Consultant in Information Technology Management, Project Management, Network Organisations Management, communities of Practice, e-learning
- Professor in the French-Chinese executive MBA (Rhône-Alpes Region - Shanghai University)
- Member of European Research project
PALETTE (Organizational Learning and Knowledge Managment in communities of Practice) - Member of the Steering Committee - Deputy Leader of Work Package 8 on Training
Courses taught
The Net Company
Project Management
Understanding the Business Plan
Building a strategic analysis
Information System Management
E-Learning platform
Teaching areas (Graduate level - MBA - Executive Education)
- IS and IT management - e-Business
- Project Management
- Network Management
Interest areas
- History of organizations and organizational changes
- Networked organizations - Inter-organizational networks
- Communities of Practice
- Project management, project evaluation, relations between projects and networks
- Impacts of IT evolutions on management and organizational changes
- e-business
- Information and knowledge management; managing knowledge in Educational environment
- Web based Education, e-learning, blended learning
- Pedagogical Innovations related to ICT use in teaching and learning
European projects
- Member of European Research project PALETTE (Organizational Learning and Knowledge Managment in communities of Practice)(2006-2009) - Member of the Steering Committee - Deputy Leader of Work Package 8 on Training
- Member of ENSEL project (2004-2005) Network for Sustainable European Learning, e-Learning Initiative
- Member of EQUEL Project (2002-2004) Network for Sustainae-Quality in e-Learning - e-Learning Initiative -
- Member of Recre@sup Project (2001-2002) - Collaborative Network of Researchers and Actors on the Uses of ICT in Higher Education. - Part of Minerva Directive (SOCRATES Program)
- Member of Learn-Nett Project (1998-2000) - Collaborative Learning Environment at Distance -SOCRATES Program -
Editorail activities
Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Web-based Learning and Teaching Technology, Idea Group Publishing http://www.idea-group.com/ijwltt
Member of Review Board, International Journal of Global Information Management, Idea Group Publishing http://www.idea-group.com/jgim
Member of the Review Board International Journal of Information Technology Education
Experience as consultant
- Global approach of IT and IS reengineering in small businesses (engineering, food industry, chemical and pharmaceutical industry) : strategic orientations, global architecture, qualification of suppliers, project supervision, performance management.
- Introduction of the PC culture in the banking sector : communication, training, customization, definition of implementation policies, workgroup organization.
- Creation and direction of a small business in software development between 1991 and 1994.
- Development of a Methodology in Project Coaching for local agencies involved in helping small and medium businesses development. Training and advisement.
- Development of competencies in personal and professional network management. Training and advisement.
- Member of the editing committee and co-author of a guide on "ERP implementation for small and medium businesses", edited by ADIRA (Association pour le Développement de l'Informatique en Rhone-Alpes, Association for developing IT in the Rhone-Alpes region )- 2001
- Member of the editing committee and author of a guide on "e-Business implementation in small and medium businesses", edited by ADIRA (Association pour le Développement de l'Informatique en Rhone-Alpes, Association for developing IT in the Rhone-Alpes region )- 2002
- Member of the scientific committee of the project "Measuring IT introduction impacts on small and medium businesses" conducted by ANACT (Association Nationale pour l'Amélioration des Conditions de Travail, National Association for Improving Working Conditions)- 2000
Publications and Conferences papers
- Boidart, T. et Esnault, L. (1995), Les autoroutes de l'information et les ambivalences de la technologie, in Confiance, Entreprise et Société, Ed. ESKA, Paris, pp 65-77 (and edition in English)
- Esnault, L. (1994), Facing the Local-Global Challenge : an IT Platform Model for the Networking Firm, in Proceedings of the International Resources Management Association 1994 Conference , Idea Group publishing, Harrisburg, Penn., pp 81-90.
- Esnault, L. (1995), IT Re-engineering Projects - How to deal with the Obsolete System : Network ! - A Case Study, in Proceedings of the International Resources Management Association 1995 Conference, Idea Group publishing, Harrisburg, Penn. pp 366-371.
- Esnault, L. (1996), L'entreprise réseau, une nouvelle frontière pour les managers ?, in Actes du IIième colloque international de management des réseaux d'entreprises, Lausanne, Suisse, 23-24 septembre 1996
- Esnault, L. (1997), Inter-organizational Information Systems and the Electronic Company, in in Proceedings of the International Resources Management Association 1997 Conference, Idea Group publishing, Harrisburg, Penn..
- Esnault, L. (1997), Projets de groupware : quelques éléments de méthodologie, in Actes du 15ème colloque de l'AFITEP, Paris, septembre 1997
- Esnault, L., Zeiliger, R., Learning, Teaching and Browsing with Nestor, in Proceedings of the International Resources Management Association 1999 Conference, Idea Group publishing, Harrisburg, Penn.
- Esnault, L., Zeiliger, R., Web Learning with Nestor : the Building of a New Pedagogical Process, in Web-Based Teaching and Learning Technologies, A. Aggarwal editor, Idea Group Publishing, 2000
- Bernadette Charlier, Amaury Daele, Liliane Esnault (speakers) Symposium: Introducing ICT and Pedagogical Innovation into Higher Education: the Recre@sup Project (http://tecfa.unige.ch/proj/recreasup/welcome.php) - 10th biennal conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)- Padoue (Italie) - 26-30 Août 2003
- Liliane Esnault, Amaury Daele, Higher Education and ICT: Questions to Design Successful Pedagogical Scenarios to Improve the Learning Process, in Proceedings of e-learn 2003, World Conference on e-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education, Phoenix, AZ, Nov 2003
- Bernadette Charlier, Hervé Platteaux, Thérese Bouvy, Liliane Esnault, Marcel Lebrun, Ana Moural, Sébastien Pirotte, Brigitte Denis, Nathalie Verday, Stories about Innovative Processes in Higher Education: Some Success factors, in Proceedings of Networked Learning 2004, Lancaster (UK), April 2004
- Chris Jones, Liliane Esnault, The Metaphor of network in Learning: Communities, Collaboration and Practice, in Proceedings of Networked Learning 2004, Lancaster (UK), April 2004
- Implementing e-learning at the Institutional Level, EQUEL Position Paper, Special Interest Group 1, coordinated by Coventry University (L. Esnault member) (2004)
- The Theory and Practice of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, EQUEL position Paper, Special Interest Group 6, coordinated by Göteborg university Sweden (L. Esnault member) (2004)
- Liliane Esnault, Marisa Ponti, Romain Zeiliger, Constructing Knowledge as a System of Relations, in: Proceedings of the Information Resource Management Association 2005 International Conference, Idea Group Publishing (Hershey, PA)
- Liliane Esnault, Workshop: How to Get published in a Research Journal. IRMA 2006 Conference, Washington DC
- Liliane Esnault, Romain Zeiliger, Frederic Vermeulin, n the Use of Actor-Network Theory for Developing Web Services Dedicated to Communities of Practice, 1st International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning Solutions for Communities of Practice (in conjunction with 1st European Confernece on Technology Enhanced Learning), Crete, Greece, october 2006