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Archive for the ‘Collaborative practices’ Category

One day, every project will be agile

The time is not far when the question of reinventing project management will be a key issue. The purpose will be to reconsider a project as something that have to fulfill a need and not an objective by itself as it’s so often. How can we see a project is its own purpose ? [...]

The Next Step in Open Innovation

Distributed innovation, collaboration with clients and partners are becoming central in companies’ strategic reflexion.
To learn more about this subject I often discuss here, it’s at McKinsey’s.

Tags: distributed innovation , Innovation , mckinsey , open innovation , partnership , strategy

Giving problem solving a framework

Since today collaboration means solving problems together, it’s important companies provide their employees with a problem solving framework.
Why not a methodology or a process ?
In fact both are needed but the most important lack is about the framework.
There are high level issues where problem solving needs a strong methodology, a dedicated taskforce (that’s what I [...]

Meeting Rex Lee : collaboration, problem solving and innovation on the programme

I took advantage from my trip to attend Webcom Montreal to make a flying visit to Toronto. The main purpose was family but it was also the occasion to meet Rex Lee in person at his Toronto’s office. For those who don’t know him, he’s collaboration director at Bell Canada and, although less mediatized [...]

Where do they find time to participate ?

In a former post, I mentioned Clay Shirky’s “Here comes everybody”.
One big question about everything people do outside the organization is “where do they find time to do that”. I have the answer for my ow case, but I recommend you to listen to Shirky’s opinion.

Now let’s apply this thought process to all the wasted [...]

Is creativity the only answer to complexity ?

Basically that would make sense. In an industrial economy everything is product-centric : we know what it is, what it’s made of, of which pieces it’s composed, there’s one and only one to produce and assemble them, and everyone knows exactly what he has to do. It’s a system based on infinite repetition of totally [...]

With Human-Network Cisco steps into societal innovation

When we talk about enterprise 2.0 it’s often about organization or marketing. But it can also be about activities that are not directly business related but ma be important considering the societal role enterpises now have to play in a protean ecosystem.
That’s the purpose in which Cisco launched Human-Network in France. I know there’s [...]

Diigo : my new productivity tool (and why not yours !?)

For those who didn’t notice, I gave up with  delicious as bookmarking tool to use Diigo. People who wonder how social tools can bring synergies and improve productivity and collective efficiency may found a piece of answer by having a close look at Diigo. If you can read french I advise you to read those [...]

Sharing knowledge is not a task but a way of working

I just saw this interesting post on this topic,  thanks to Martin Roulleaux-Dugage. The difference between traditional KM and its “2.0″ evolution is that it’s not a task anymore but a way of doing things, a on-the-flow activity.
Take time to classify, fill in forms, stock is real burden that often lead KM projects to fail. [...]

Société Générale : lack of control or systemic failure ?

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 [...]