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What makes the value of shared information ?

September 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information

As I often say, we often complain about software while the problem is the way we use it. It’s the reason why many people consider that the largest part of spam they receive at word comes from their colleagues, their hierarchy.
That’s why I liked this Dilbert strip about information sharing. We can also conclude that [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 and the myth of content generation

January 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, information, social computing

Web 2.0 is fueled by user generated content (UGC) ans, logically, it should be the same within companies. It’s obvious : when connecting people to information and connectiing people through information is a driving principle, it’s easy to undersand that the existence of a published and shared information is the key to the new form [...]

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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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Discussions may help people do a better work

November 2nd, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, information

Web 2.0 is about discussions. Enterprise 2.0 is about giving value to discussions. But people are paid to work and not to discuss, and when you say “discussion” you often the Taylor that sleeps into many manager’s mind.
Would it be possible to envisage that discussions can help people doing their job better ? Not at [...]

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Can we identify good managers by the way their team uses the net ?

October 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information, knowledge-economy

A very common discourse within companies is : “our people waste their time on social networks and, more globally, on the web. We have to restrict access to it”.
If, when talking about social networks, it depends on the way people use them, so its important to grant access to what useful for business, I find [...]

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Information flows needs a plumber

September 23rd, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, information, social computing

Information overload has thress main causes : the first is information dispersal among too many tools which force people to continuously switch from one to another in order to be sure not miss anything, the second is the fact people are affected by the information flow that fall on them as is they were at [...]

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Ambiant tools to catch your company’s social signals

September 14th, 2008 · View Comments · Communities, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Social Networking, information, social computing

I know that many of my readers are more “enterprise” than “2.0″, but it’s important to have a look at what’s happining to the general public in order to understand what will happen to businesses tomorrow. First because the behaviors being developped always impact in one or anoter way the way people behave at work, [...]

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When 2.0 dissolves into businesses

September 11th, 2008 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, information, knowledge-economy, social computing

If there’s a big confusion around enterprise 2.0 it’s because of its perimeter, what  makes the concept very nebulous for novices and even for specialist who sometimes seem to disagree although hey are sayning the same thing in different ways.  The question is to know if 2.0 applied to business is about the whole business [...]

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Collaboration may happen by luck : how to provide valuable information without purpose

September 9th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communication, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, information, social computing

You must have already heard about serendipity, the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. This is the best way to gout out of the common path instead of recycling the same ideas again and again, which often leads to the same overused solutions. But in  order [...]

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The power of decentralized crisis management : the Gustav case

September 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Intranets & collaborative tools, Social Networking, information, social computing

Crisis is charaterized by its suddenty, its unpredictability and the gravity of its possible consequences. It forces organization to react quickly in order to protect itself as well at its components and agents.
That implies many things. Decide on the way to react, which suppose to have reliable and exhaustive information. Then manage to deliver orders, [...]

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