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01 — ABOUT

VINCENT
DEFARGE.

Operations, Reliability and Service Management — viewed through an industrial lens.

I work at the intersection of technology, operations and service management. My focus is simple: build operating models and services that are reliable, understandable and continuously improving.

CURRENT ROLE
Head of Service Management Office
MICHELIN · IT OPERATIONS & SERVICES MANAGEMENT
FOCUS

Reliable services that create value.

APPROACH

Industrial thinking, practical execution.

MINDSET

Measure, learn, improve. Repeat.

BELIEF

People make the system work.

02 — WHAT I DO

BUILDING THE
CONDITIONS
FOR GOOD OPERATIONS.

My work sits where technology meets the reality of running a large organization.

I work on services, processes, operating models and continuous improvement — connecting strategy with what teams actually experience in production.

That means looking beyond individual incidents or tools and asking a broader question: how do we make the system easier to operate well?

01

OPERATIONS

Designing the way services are run, supported and improved.

02

RELIABILITY

Building predictable services and stronger recovery mechanisms.

03

SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Connecting technology, processes, people and business value.

04

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Turning operational signals into better systems and better ways of working.

03 — HOW I WORK

FROM INCIDENTS
TO SYSTEMS.

An incident is an event. The operating system around it is the real subject.

I focus on the mechanisms behind performance: signals, roles, standards, decision paths, service design and feedback loops.

The goal is not to eliminate every failure. It is to build systems that detect earlier, recover faster and learn from what happened.

04 — RESEARCH COLLABORATION

BUILT THROUGH
TWO PERSPECTIVES.

Operational Architecture is joint research developed by Vincent Defarge and Vanessa Gonçalves.

It brings together operational intent and service knowledge to explore how the Business Promise can remain visible, actionable and able to evolve throughout the service lifecycle.

VINCENT DEFARGEOPERATIONAL INTENT & SERVICE MANAGEMENT
VANESSA GONÇALVESSERVICE KNOWLEDGE & OPERATIONAL MODELLING