I’ll start with a statement that’s nothing new and won’t surprise anyone. We are all different, with our cultures, values, expectations, and even if things may look quite uniform at a local scale, the diversity of our world becomes obvious when we have to work in a globalized context.
In the same way, any idea, trend, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Organization & Management'
Is enterprise 2.0 possible without positive thinking ?
March 16th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
Tags: adoption·change·change-management·culture·enterprise 2.0·positive thinking·rationalism·reason
About enterprise 2.0 and ERPs
March 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
I’ll soon take a part in a webTV discussion which theme is “Is enterprise 2.0 the antithesis of ERP” organized by the great Techtoc.tv team (ok…that’s all in french). The preparatory discussions are rather heated, what’s promising for the debate. Meanwhile, I’d like to share some thoughts about the issue we’ll debate.
ERP ? That’s to [...]
Adopting new practices in multiple contexts
March 4th, 2010 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Knowing that people have to face multiple contexts in their work, we have to make sure that new practices and tools are enablers in each situation. I do not write “social” or “2.0″ in purpose because these words are so tied to communities and social networks that we often forget that the underlying concepts may [...]
Tags: activity-specific social software·change·change-management·collaboration·collective efficiency·Communities·enterprise 2.0·organizational performance·performance·social media
What place for communities in collaboration ?
March 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communities, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
The switch from a compartimentalized enterprise collaborating on a small perimeter to an enterprise that harnesses mass collaboration and leverages social networks and communties is much harder than many expected.
But is “transformation” a relevant word ?
First because collaboration has many differents levels and scopes that not exclusive but complementary. Enterprise 2.0 does not mean the [...]
Tags: change·change-management·collaboration·Communities·community management·enterprise 2.0·management
Is Quality the 2.0 word for quantity ?
February 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
Before starting anything in any context, knowing what one want to achieve is essential. Some say that the answer is obvisous : sell. The famous “Nothing happens until something is sold” by Thomas Waston is still unconsciously embebbed in many things we do and we have to admit that being the best at anything is [...]
Tags: deming·enterprise 2.0·ongoing improvement·productivity·quality·quantity
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 [...]
Tags: collaboration·Communities·enterprise 2.0·enterprise social networks·enterprise-social-software·rawn shah·social networks
The conversational enterprise : opportunity or dead end ?
February 16th, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
If we listen to what’s being said here and there, the future of business is conversation. A concept that’s not so easy to get for many organizations for two reasons :
• Intuitively, conversation makes think of chat…what means waste of time
• In the management ideology, there are those who talk and those who do. So, [...]
Tags: collaboration·Communities·conversations·enterprise 2.0·groups·interactions
Networking and collaboration : is enterprise a land of trust or distrust ?
February 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0
I recently wrote that it what obvious to me that for many people some activities and behaviors had to remain in their private sphere and, that social networking and everything that comes with is not a part of what they naturally want to transpose in the workplace. I also temperated my words saying that, of [...]
Tags: adoption·change·change-management·collaboration·culture·e-reputation·enterprise 2.0·france·personal branding·Social Networking·trust
What CRM is and what it should be
January 25th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
The good thing with acronyms is that they are easy to remember. Their weakness is that it’s easy to forget their meaning. Let’s consider CRM for instance, it means “Customer relationship management”. I repeat customer relationship management.
If we have a closer look, we are forced to admit that CRM has been lead astray to become, [...]
Tags: Communities·crm·customer·customer relationship·customers·Innovation·relationship·sales·social crm
The factory, the beach and the Bermuda Triangle. Or the challenges of integration
January 21st, 2010 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, social computing
In the comments following this great piece by Hutch Carpenter about 2010 trends, someone relevantly drawn our attention on the importance of integration. I agree and would like to sum up some ideas about all the integration challenges which are much wider than we can usually think.
Notice : when talking about integration we usually think [...]
Tags: activity-specific social software·alignment·behaviors·collaboration·Communication·enterprise-social-software·governance·hosting·IT·saas·sense·social sofwtare·social-software
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