About AméliorAction
AméliorAction, a company incorporated in Quebec and created in 2002,
is chaired by Jean Lalonde. AméliorAction offers consultation and
training services in management, information technologies and
communication. AméliorAction excels at gathering information,
analyzing and formulating recommendations about an opportunity or a
particular situation. AméliorAction also distinguishes itself by the
adaptability of its methods of accompaniment of working groups engaged
in a strategic reflection.
AméliorAction is member of Alliance numériQC, CSTD, Fédération de
l'informatique du Québec, TECHNOcompétences and is a recognized
training centre registered with Emploi Québec.
About Jean Lalonde
Jean Lalonde has a long
management experience in new media industry, a vast knowledge in
information technology management, project management and
communication. He has been manager and consultant in the communication
and new media industry for more than twenty years. He has a Master in
Business Administration (MBA) from Sherbrooke University. He also
studied Information Technology at HEC Montréal and Communications at
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
Jean Lalonde was one of the first journalists in Quebec specialized in
new media ("télématique"), information technology and telecoms in the
years 1980s. He wrote papers for various magazines (Québec Science,
L'Actualité, etc.) and produced interviews and reports for radio
current affairs programs at Radio-Canada. He worked at Radio-Canada
for 17 years as journalist, Training Manager, IT Project Manager and
New Media Director. As Radio-Canada's New media Director, he
created this new department for French Television. From a 4-employee
team in 1998, he built an efficient service with more than 70
employees in 2000, located in Montreal and in all Canadian regions.
This team produced the much awarded Web site Radio-Canada.ca and
managed various key projects like the Olympics games Web sites, the
election campaigns Web coverage, etc.
As President of AméliorAction since 2002, Jean Lalonde provided
various consulting services to new media enterprises or organizations
like Idéactif Conseil, Canada Health Infoway, Radio-Canada, Ixia Soft,
iXmédia, Jeux de l'anse, lab)idéeclic!, Netgraphe (Quebecor Média),
Netsym (AgentSolo.com), Novasys, Technomédia, Institut national de
l'image et du son (INIS), Bell New Media Fund, Alliance numériQC and
Centre de transfert pour la réussite éducative du Québec (CTREQ). The
areas of his mandates include: strategic planning, program, project or
product evaluation, marketing orientation, sales and production
process review, training, etc. He also provides training on
information technology and project management to hundreds of managers
from HEC Montréal or his own clients.
Jean Lalonde published a dozen of books on computers and information
technology, the most known being Internet au bout des doigts that has
been republished five times since 1995 and has introduced more that
100 000 Quebecers to Internet.
Jean Lalonde is fully bilingual. He is accustomed to work with people
from various Canadian regions. As manager for many national projects
at CBC/Radio-Canada, he frequently had to manage, work with or
interview employees, players or stakeholders from both French and
English Canada, from Vancouver to Moncton. This experience gives him
the ability to understand various points of view and relate them to
cultural differences found in our vast country.
Contact Info
AméliorAction inc.
Jean Lalonde, President
www.AmeliorAction.ca
