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" The most successful companies are those that think jointly technological change, work design and the changes in internal social relationships.” Antoine Riboud.
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Entries Tagged as 'Intranets & collaborative tools'

Social Networking for Business : a collaboration engineering guide in the 2.0 era

February 18th, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

If you read this blog it may be because the new approaches to collaboration and among them social networks interest you. You surely get their potential. You surely understand that deploying a tool, put passion and energy in your projet and pray is not the best way to make things work and achieve tangible results [...]

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GE, enterprise 2.0 since….1989

October 13th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

One of the the most frequently mentioned enterprise 2.0 successful project is General Electric’s SupportCentral. It’s true that their numbers are really impressive even for those who usually criticize anything that’s about 2.0. So, inevitably, people wonder how they dit it.
The recipe is obviousl well known : a long term project, deeply anchored in employees’ [...]

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How to build an intranet 2.0 ?

August 28th, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Web 2.0 brought enterprise 2.0 which is powered by its own web, the intranet. So it’s logical that the intranet had to become 2.0 too. Problems come when someone curious or missioned by his hierachy comes and ask the fatal questions : ” How to make my intranet become 2.0″.  Seing plenty of hope in [...]

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Are you swine flu-ready ?

August 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management

Swine flu, or more exactly Influenza A H1N1 (that has nothing porcine) is waiting close to our doors and is a real threat to businesses. Ok, we should stop spreading doom and gloom. I don’t want to try to stir up controversy, we’re not talking about plague and the risk of seing the population being [...]

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Participate in the 4th Global Intranet Strategies Survey

July 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools

As every year, Jane McConnell is working on her yearly survey about intranet Strategies. A survey that is eagerly-expected because of the high quality of her works.
You can still participate until August 31st.
The 4th annual Global Intranet Strategies Survey opened at the end of June and will stay open until August 31. All participants receive [...]

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The enterprise and the web

June 26th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

Finally, many current debates are about the enterprises’ ability to understand, master and harness the web, internally. This may seem trivial because purely technological and being about competences that are much lighter that those IT depts have been using for decades. But, at the end, it’s more complicated that it seems.
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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 [...]

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What perimeter for and enterprise social network

February 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Maybe you remember of my posts about external networks and the relevance of enterprise 2.0 logics for SMBs. In both case the underlying issue whas about the perimeter of those networks.
As a matter if fact, in small of medium businesses, assuming that contacts are more simple (or are supposed to be…), the benefits of interconnecting [...]

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Survey on the use of IT in french companies

February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

Two weeks ago I was invited by Microsoft to attend the presentation of a survey on the use of IT in fench companies. Two things made it really interesting
• Although the fact new generations were transforming the use of IT, there was no global study to quantify and qualify it.
• The methodology was neutral and [...]

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How do good enterprise 2.0 idea perish

February 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, social computing

No comment. A good way to understand how old habits (sometimes) prevent good ideas to turn into successful projects.
enterprise 2.0, enterprise-social-software, idées, Innovation, intranet, management-des-idées, social-software

Tags: enterprise 2.0 , enterprise-social-software , ideas , ideas-management , Innovation , intranet , social-software

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