Professional portrait of Rudy Desnos

Rudy Desnos · A different view of information systems

Technology is never the point.What the business does with it is!

Managing AI and human intelligence. Manage people, supervise AI and organise their collaboration to serve the business.

Discover my approach
01Information systemsGovernance · ERP · transformation
02Finance & CFO leadershipProcesses · management · performance
03Data & AIUses · decisions · value
My positioning

Manage intelligence. Lead transformation.

MANAGING AI & PEOPLE

I connect business strategy, teams, processes and systems. After 26 years at SII, culminating in responsibility for Group Finance IS and ERP, I now extend that experience by designing and supervising systems that combine human and artificial intelligence.

People management

Set the direction and organise action.

Clarify goals and responsibilities, coordinate business and technical expertise, make priority trade-offs and support changes in working practices.

AI supervision

Frame, delegate and check.

Choose the tasks entrusted to AI, provide context, define its permissions and verify the results. Consequential decisions remain under human responsibility.

Transformation

Connect practical uses to performance.

Start with a real need, structure data and processes, then test solutions for usefulness, reliability and the risks they entail.

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Evidence, beyond ideas

Design. Operate. Communicate.

Three complementary ways to test this approach: a business IS demonstrator, an operational media ecosystem and a professional fiction project.

IS · FINANCE · ERP · AI

An AI-enhanced business information system.

An international IT services demonstrator built around roles, practical uses and decisions. The indicators shown are demonstration data.

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MEDIA · DATA · AUTOMATION

A data-driven editorial ecosystem.

Content, audiences, automation, SEO, data and management brought together in an operational system.

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FICTION · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS

Fiction that makes systems visible.

Professional stories that reveal what diagrams leave out: choices, tensions and their consequences.

Editorial project in progress →
01

Business first

The business sets the direction.

Information systems start with business goals, operations and constraints — never with technology for its own sake.

02

Risk based

Risk informs trade-offs.

Investment, control and effort must be proportionate to the real stakes.

03

Technology as an enabler

Technology makes action possible.

Its value lies in what it helps improve: a decision, process, performance or service.

My method

Understand. Connect. Build.

Useful transformation begins by understanding the business, connects the dimensions that genuinely matter and leads to concrete decisions and solutions.

01

Understand

Read the business before reading its information systems.

02

Connect

Finance, operations, data, organisation and technology never work in isolation.

03

Build

Turn that understanding into concrete decisions, solutions and results.

In the spotlight

An idea to put to the test.

EDITORIAL
01
Governance · Principles

IT does not need to be aligned with the business. It must serve the business.

Information systems matter through business performance. This distinction changes how we govern, make trade-offs and transform.

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Between the lines

Three guiding convictions.

INTERPRET
Information systems

Information systems are a means, not an end.

Assess information systems through what they actually contribute to the business.

Risk & performance

Zero risk is the wrong target.

Manage overall risk rather than maximising protection of each component.

Data & AI

Value comes from use cases.

Value emerges when technology genuinely improves a decision or action.

The IS Observatory

Facts to challenge convictions.

Measure, compare and track over time to distinguish intuition, signals and reality.

01IS performance
02Risk & resilience
03Transformation & ERP
04Data & AI
My background

Rudy Desnos

SII Group · 1999 – February 2026. Software development engineer (1999–2002), IS project manager (2002–2010), then Group Finance IS and ERP Manager (2010–February 2026). IFS followed by IFS Cloud, reporting, integration and coordination across Finance, business teams, IT and partners in an international group.

Since 2026 · Independent work. Applied research and the design of business systems, automations and management tools that combine data, AI and human approval.

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“IT should be judged by what its information systems enable the business to achieve, rather than by their technical sophistication.”
REGARDS SI

Understand. Connect. Build.

AI-assisted English translation · French original