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Talking with Michel Hervé about turning the pyramid upside down

You problably don’t know Michel Hervé and that’s a pity since thy guy is really worth being exported. This entrepreneur is well known for his book “from the pyramid to the networks”  (unfortunately only available in french) that describes the way he run his business, has he says, in a participative and democrat way.  Something [...]

Enterprise is not a closed system : the Starbucks example

No company can (sur)vive isolating itself from the outside. In the other hand it has to grow richer because of all its ecosystem and consider it as an allied, not an enemy. There are many reasons for that.
- improve the way it benchmarks by taking the most of ideas and feedbacks coming from what’s essentiel [...]

Social networks ban hyprocrisis while email costs $650 billion per year

There’s not a month without the publication of new statistics about losses due the use of social networks by employees. We have to b e very cautions with such datas.
First because the only thing we can calculate is the ration between the connection lenght and the hourly cost of the employee, that’s nothing tangible. That’s [...]

Web 2.0 is knocking on French companies’ doors

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 [...]

Enterprise can’t be purely informal…

We can’t focus on informal only and forget top-down. If we do, this may happen :

Very fun in a cartoon…but I’m not sure we’d like to see it happen in our companies.
Future is the connection between two worlds, not the replacement of one by the other.
Source GeekandPoke

Tags: Communication , enterprise 2.0

Rethinking information : one more paradigm shift

Connection people and information (and people via information)  are key in organizational performance in the knowledge economy. It’s important to understand that evend if a part of the informational capital, even a very small part, because of its founding nature, has to be stocked, carved on marble, all the rest, that’s been ofter neglected so [...]

Technical Communication is dead

It would have been easier to put a youtube video here and just ask you to watch it…hoping you can speak french or have in your surrouding somebody who does. So I’ll put the video and will try to translate it into english.
What is it about : Louis Schweitzer, former CEO of Renault (I [...]

Would you like to see your intranet on internet ?

We all known intranet 2.0 is a matter of transparency, of visibility. These are necessary behaviors but evenu those who agree with that acknowledge it may be frightening for a lot of managers. And they surely consider the bank manager I talked about in a former post is inconscious.
What do people exactly fear ? To [...]

A corporate blog to communicate with investors

A post that goes against common ideas. I’ve often heard a manager or a CEO should not blog, as possible interpretations of his words could get him into troubles according to financial communication rules.
A recent discussion between Jonathan Schwartz (Sun’s CEO) and Christopher Cox (SEC’s chairman) showed that the latter thought online communication is a [...]

Why email isn’t so good

Email has become the real company’s killer app. Easy to use, no teaching needed, quick delevery…really a great tool isn’t it? In fact if email can be good for some things it may also have a negative impact in your organization. Let’s see why and, possibly, find alternative solutions.
A real killer app
I think my introduction’s [...]

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