Social Collaboration Is in Finance’s Future « Finance departments don’t immediately come to mind in conversations about social collaboration technology. Most of the software used for social collaboration that I’ve seen demonstrated focuses on the big data technologysales process or for broader employee engagement. The Facebook-style interface may cause finance department managers and executives to roll [...]

The new work « Learning to better deal with intangibles is the next challenge for today’s organizations and workers. I developed the following graphic to describe the four job types in relation to 1) work competencies and 2) economic value. It appears that an economy that creates more intangible value will require a greater percentage of [...]

The Value of Big Data Isn’t the Data « It is clear that a new age is upon us. Evidence-based decision-making (aka Big Data) is not just the latest fad, it’s the future of how we are going to guide and grow business. But let’s be very clear: There is a huge distinction to be made [...]

What Happened to the Internet Productivity Miracle? « Back in the late nineteen-nineties, there was a lot of optimism about the future, and it wasn’t all emanating from those lucky souls who had gotten in early on the I.P.O.s of companies like Yahoo and Amazon. Many economists, with Alan Greenspan prominent amongst them, believed that over [...]

The Company Social Network « Ever since Andrew McAfee started the Enterprise 2.0 theme, businesses have been implementing Social technologies to utilize the wave of innovation that swept in from the Internet with user-created content and person-to-person communication via text, voice or video. According to McKinsey over 80% of businesses use at least one social technology [...]

Ces salariés qui travaillent en mode start-up  » Opérant en commando, ils brisent toutes les règles avec la bénédiction de leur patron. On les appelle les « intrapreneurs » » tags: management intrapreneurship casestudies Poult alcatellucent Gore Douze jours par an, quatre groupes de six volontaires (cadres et ouvriers) apprennent à concevoir un business plan, à calculer un [...]

Bernard Stiegler : « Nous entrons dans l’ère du travail contributif » « le modèle consumériste se meurt, comme celui du progrès permanent. Tout s’automatise. L’intérêt économique ne peut plus être le seul poursuivi. Il faut réhabiliter le savoir, la connaissance, la créativité. Comment ? En développant une « économie de la contribution », qui révolutionne [...]

New Social Business Report Looks At The State of the Industry In 2013 « Each year Jane McConnell produces a report looking at Digital Workplace Trends. The 2013 edition was released recently and provides an interesting insight into the state of social business today. The report highlights a number of key areas impacting upon the digital [...]

Olivier Pastré : « Avec l’économie bottom-up, la sortie de crise est entre nos mains » « Pour sortir de la crise, une seule solution : “changer de logiciel”. Il ne faut plus raisonner de manière top-down – de haut en bas – mais de manière bottom-up, du bas vers le haut. Telle est la conviction forte de [...]