Knowing that people have to face multiple contexts in their work, we have to make sure that new practices and tools are enablers in each situation. I do not write “social” or “2.0″ in purpose because these words are so tied to communities and social networks that we often forget that the underlying concepts may [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Collaborative practices'
Adopting new practices in multiple contexts
March 4th, 2010 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Tags: activity-specific social software·change·change-management·collaboration·collective efficiency·Communities·enterprise 2.0·organizational performance·performance·social media
What place for communities in collaboration ?
March 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communities, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
The switch from a compartimentalized enterprise collaborating on a small perimeter to an enterprise that harnesses mass collaboration and leverages social networks and communties is much harder than many expected.
But is “transformation” a relevant word ?
First because collaboration has many differents levels and scopes that not exclusive but complementary. Enterprise 2.0 does not mean the [...]
Tags: change·change-management·collaboration·Communities·community management·enterprise 2.0·management
Does enterprise (2.0) need a pilot ?
October 16th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
It started with this provocative post from Michael Idinopulos. His message is quite claire : assuming that enterprise 2.0 relies on networked interactions, that these interations need a critical mass of users not only because of Metcalf law but also because, by definition, it’s impsossible to know at the beginning who will be needed in [...]
Tags: adoption·change·conversational·conversations·enterprise 2.0·experimentation·pilot·scale·scope·social networks·transactional·transactions
Are contents social by nature or by need ?
August 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Web 2.0, aka “social web” and its corporate avatar known as enterprise 2.0 were built upon the following assumption : within a given groupe, information should be shared and discussions should be public because no one knows who may improve the work of another person, to bring a solution. So it’s more effieient letting people [...]
Tags: collaboration·enterprise 2.0·information·intranet 2.0·sharing·social computing·social media
Make your own enterprise 2.0 diagnosis
August 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, IT, enterprise 2.0, social computing
The concept of enterprise 2.0 is still unclear to many, even though they are often less far from it than they think. If, for sticking to their reality, we look at it in terms of process socialization, we realize that a lot of Mr. Jourdain in companies that have a logical relatively close but not [...]
Socializing your decision making process
August 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, enterprise 2.0
A good example of process socialization is about decision making. A few weeks ago I read this interesting paper from Olivier Sibony (Associate Director at McKinsey). Since the article is in French I hope Google Translator will provide you with a good english translation.
What is it about ?
Making the right decisions is key to be [...]
Tags: cisco·decision·decision-making·finance·financial performance·indicators·mckinsey·olivier sibony·process·ROI·socialization
Telecommutig and virtual teams : going too far can harm your organization
July 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, IT, Organization & Management, social computing
Applying good ideas is like nervous tension and cholesterol : too few is dangerous, too much can be harmful. The example of telecommuting and its consequence, virtual teams, is very meaninful.
Telecommuting is, at least partly, the answer to many harms. First, the need for being able to work anywhere (and not only from one’s home). [...]
Tags: collaboration·green IT·Human resources·management·telecommuting·virtual teams
Do we work the same way with providers and with colleagues ?
June 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management
The answer is obviously not. And not only because this is not the same kind of contracts. It’s because businesses still act according to the model that makes them consider their employees on one side and the others on the other side. And in the middle…they build walls. They proctect from the outside although value [...]
Tags: collaboration·collaborative-tools·ecosystem·enterprise·interactions·knowledgeworkers·networks·outsourcing·providers·self employment
B2B,B2C, E2E…and why not EWP ?
June 15th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management
My point here is to consider the way the interaction within businesses and between businesses and their environment are thought and realize how old language habits structure our thinking and lock it up into old schemes.
At the beginning there was B2B and B2C. B2B because businesses used to make business together and B2C because businesses [...]
Tags: B2B·B2C·co-building·co-creation·collaboration·E2E·interactions·synergies
Social Media needs a better signal to noise ratio : discovering Microplaza
March 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing
Information is key for efficient business operations. The way it circulates must be facilitated and fluidified? Everything may be very valuable at a given moment for a given person while being useless for anybody else. Identifying week signals is critical but it implies to increase the amount of information that circulates through the enterprise. People [...]
Tags: filter·information·microplaza·search·search engines·social network·twitter·web-2.0
You can find the "original" french version of this blog here
