Gennevilliers, November, 3^rd 2011—

Alma Consulting Group, the European leader in operational consulting services, has just signed a partnership with Hypios, the Paris-based open problem-solving platform specialized in R&D solutions. Through this partnership, Alma Consulting Group will now offer its 15000 clients access to an “open laboratory” of more than 800,000 experts. Via an online platform, Hypios connects companies with unsolved technological or operational problems (“seekers”) to a network of specialists across the world (“solvers”).

“The challenge is to use innovative means to solve R&D problems: our teams help corporate clients formulate their needs and integrate the principles of Open Innovation. As part of this process, the Hypios platform is an incredible tool for the application of crowdsourcing-based innovation,” explains Abbas Djobo, head of the innovation department of Alma Consulting Group.

“Outsourcing problems to a heterogeneous population using “intelligent” crowdsourcing has radically changed the way companies innovate. This new partnership with Alma Consulting Group, a leader in innovation financing, will further demonstrate how web technologies can benefit R&D processes. It will give our platform added visibility in a fast changing environment,” says Daniel de Segovia Gross, Hypios CEO.

“We are consolidating our strategy in terms of operational innovation consulting. We are finding key partners specialized in collaborative practices for R&D and innovation, to offer our Alma Consulting Group clients a complete service. As a leader, innovating in the innovation sector is a non-stop challenge,” concludes Abbas Djobo.

About Alma Consulting Group

Alma Consulting Group (Turnover 2010: 271 M€, 1,700 employees, 15,000 clients throughout Europe and Canada) is the European leader in operational consultancy. Alma Consulting Group’s mission consists in helping companies to optimise their costs by identifying and obtaining savings for them, without interfering with their organisational structure. Alma Consulting Group’s business model is based on a remuneration exclusively indexed to the savings obtained for its clients (success fees). Alma Consulting Group’s teams focus on Innovation financing ( filing research & development tax credit claims, obtaining public grants and subsidies on a local, regional, national or European level); Taxes; Employer’s contributions & Overhead expenses. Alma Consulting Group has a strong international presence, with 10 covered countries through its local branches in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and Canada. www.almacg.com

About Hypios

Hypios combines intelligent crowdsourcing, competency discovery technology, and human outreach to deliver an optimal open problem-solving service. “Seekers” post R&D problems to the network and select a deadline and a price for the successful “Solver.” Hypios, which draws from a network of over 800,000 experts across the world, has been solving R&D problems for global companies since 2008.
www.hypios.com

Press Contacts

Sylvie Merran-Ifrah – Alma Consulting Group
smerranifrah@almacg.com
+33 (0)1 41 49 12 09

Saman Musacchio – Hypios
smusacchio@hypios.com
+33 (0)1 77 13 67 79

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