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" The most successful companies are those that think jointly technological change, work design and the changes in internal social relationships.” Antoine Riboud.
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Do french companies really understand nothing to web 2.0 ?

June 22nd, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, about france, enterprise 2.0, social computing

A recent Jemm Research survey made upon IBM request [fr] shows that french companies can’t identify web 2.0 tools and their benefits. Do we have to worry about that ?
According to me the way things are asked introduces a bias in the answer, most of because they took the issue wrong side up. What are [...]

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Web 2.0 is knocking on French companies’ doors

February 20th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Communities, Corporate blogging, HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, about france, enterprise 2.0, social computing

A few words about a recentTNS Sofres survey about the use of web 2.0 in France and user’s expectations.
Just one thing to take into consideration : the following numbers are about web 2.0 users in France that’s to say, according to the survey, 58% of the population. I think it’s even more : people who [...]

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Société Générale : lack of control or systemic failure ?

February 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, about france, enterprise 2.0

I’m sure you heard about what happend to French Bank Societe Generale who lost 5 billions euros because of one of its traders. Many question came about the efficiency of the controls which failed. I even read blogs saying that, considering it was a matter of control, of visibility, of trust, enterprise 2.0 would [...]

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Enterprise and management 2.0 : is this the beginning or the end

February 4th, 2008 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, about france, enterprise 2.0

A few weeks ago I published on my french blog a note about the latest book by Gary Hamel : “The future of management”. A few days later I received a comment from his french publisher, saying the french edition will be available in april. What surprised me was the title : in France the [...]

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Collective intelligence and mass collaboration have to be learned at school

November 10th, 2007 · View Comments · Communities, Intranets & collaborative tools, about france, social computing

I often say that our teatchers and parents didn’t help us to be fully efficient in our professionnal carreer.  Just have a look at all those principles we grew up with :
You musn’t copy : copying is not bad. it prevent you from reinventing the wheel everyday. It’s better to take a colleague’s idea and [...]

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About social computing in France

May 22nd, 2007 · View Comments · about france, enterprise 2.0, social computing

This morning I found this very interesting note on headshift, about the French comission report on immaterial economy I mentionned in a former post. The author’s view of the “french paradox of internet” is very close to reality and points out very important facts :

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When Mac Manus glances at french 2.0

September 28th, 2006 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, about france

A post I enjoyed by Richard Mac Manus, one of the web 2.0 references. On his virtual tour of the state of web 2.0 projects in France, he mentionned two companies I’m very close to (moovement and bluekiwi) as I work for the first on projects based on blueKiwi’s solution.
As I noticed his interrogations about [...]

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