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A socialnomics Manifesto

October 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management, Social Networking, social computing

I rencently mentioned the word “socialnomics“. Whatt’s the interest ? In an interconnected world (not only by the net…a world were everything can impact everything, it’s essential to understand the context to define the systems (enterprise, project, organization, management) we have to implement. So let’s try to summarize things.
- the world is full of stakeholders. [...]

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Is Innovation an Affair of State ?

August 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, economy

Innovate, Innovate ! You must innovate. That’s this year’s hit ! Even this crisis’ hit, since crisis and especially this one force us to review many certainties and reinvent many things we used to take for granted. Innovation is shown as being the enterprise’s call. Innover ! Il faut innover. C’est le tube de l’été, [...]

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Will you have to throw your marketing outside of the window ?

August 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Ideas & innovation management, Social Networking, social computing

McKinsey recently issued a report entitled Managing beyond web 2.0 which is about constraints businesses are meeting in a connected world. Those who relied on the title to pounce on it may have been very disappointed since it’s more about the realtionships between businesses and their ecosystems than about internal management issues. But that’s not [...]

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Innovation : from a “OR” to an “AND” culture

March 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management

What I can draw from this video is that what charaterize really innovatve companies is that they can find their way between assumptions that seem contradictory. They think in terms of “AND” instead of “OR”.

One may answer that always looking for compromises leads to solution that bring nothing, that choices have to be made and [...]

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How to integrate innovation in your organization…with your IT dept.

February 17th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

I’coming back on an article titled “Teaming Up to Crack Innovation Enterprise Integration” and issued in the Harvard Business Review in last november. It has many interests : it’s about the vital problematic of innovation, it shows this so-called innovation can only be distributed and rely on sharing, it shows how such principles can be [...]

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Managing in a downturn

December 22nd, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management

The Alumni Network of the famous french “Ecole Polytechnique” issued a report on “how to manage in a downturn’. Here are a few excerpts :
• Urgency does not mean lack of vigilance : state of urgency makes people focus on short term which bad effects are know…on long term. Moreover, enterprise compartmentalization and a hard [...]

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Web 2.0 tools to improve information readiness

November 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, information, knowledge-economy, social computing

Today, many opinions converge to admit two things :
• companies need to be more and and more reactive in order to run their traditionnal activities in a more and more complexe context, where foreseeability is very uncertain and where sharp competences and complex competences assembling are needed in a short range of time. Something like [...]

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Is web 2.0 dead or is business replacing buzzyness ?

October 29th, 2008 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Ideas & innovation management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, strategy

You must have felt this agitation that went through the blogosphere these last day, but that was also relayed by traditional medias. Web 2.0 is dead. The rumor didn’t start from this note from Michael Arrington but since he’s got a bigger loudhailer than most of the population his voice carried farer. Then hundreds if [...]

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Innovation and cultural change : ID-ah at Bell Canada

August 4th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

A few months ago I wrote about my meeting with Rex Lee, a nice conversation during which we talked about what he implemented at Bell Canada, he showed me a few projects and, above all, he explained me the vision that was behind all that. Among those tools and projects was ID-ah ! , [...]

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Once knowledge will be outsourced, enterprises will only be expertise coordinators

July 14th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, IT, Ideas & innovation management, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information, knowledge-economy, strategy

In a previous post I was saying that, one day, enterprise’s main role will be to organize a value chain and coordinate expertises, some of them being internal and some others internal. Economy’s “knowledgization” where assets resides more in individual knowledge, transaction costs near to zero which may cause a reversed application of Coase’s law,  [...]

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