Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad

Sharing Status Updates Reduces Duplication Of Work
“Internal microblogging provides companies similar benefits to services like Twitter, but adds a layer of privacy, by sharing the information only within your company. This enables you to provide status updates internally, which you would not share with the public. For example, you can mention [...]

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ME2: Horizontal Collaboration
“I have been using the term “Horizontal Collaboration” recently to describe to colleagues a key objective of our Enterprise 2.0 efforts – better enabling cross-silo community collaboration. This illustration also incorporates Andrew McAfee’s E2.0 Target Analysis concept to demonstrate the opportunity of encouraging culture and technology to better enable Horizontal Community Collaboration – [...]

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A Journey In Social Media: A Humbling Experience
“A Bit About GE’s SupportCentral
Don’t be put off by the name. This is an extremely advanced social productivity platform.
They got started working on this in 1999. Think for a moment about how far you can get by working on a problem for eight years.”
tags: GE, supportcentral, [...]

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Sales Teams And Value Of Social Software (IBM)
tags: sales, IBM, casestudies, socialsoftware, socialnetwork, sales2.0

Social Computing Training Is All About Changing People’s Behaviours
“I am not sure whether you may have noticed the slight difference, perhaps, with other training strategies on social computing adoption available out there, but Intel’s puts the money right where it should well [...]

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Integrating social platforms with legacy systems – Microsoft, Dassault Systèmes or Google ?
“I was lucky enough to be invited with one of my clients to Paris MS Campus to have a conversation about Microsoft social platform (Infopedia, AcademyMobile, Mingle, …). It was the second time I had the opportunity to see a social platform. The [...]

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Open Innovation’s Next Challenge: Itself
“But are companies, with all their good intentions, getting the most from open innovation? We suspect that the initial successes, encouraging as they are, represent only the beginning. What if open innovation were defined more broadly and more ambitiously? Could even greater value be realized? If so, what would the next [...]

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Termination notice: You’ve been replaced By Google!
“In reality, Google has replaced opinions. We used to solicit people’s opinions a lot more often in the workplace because we needed to gather information about how things were being done in other companies where they may have worked in the past. We lacked the huge library of potential [...]

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Lotusphere 2010: IBM Project Vulcan
“IBM Project Vulcan is not a brand-new effort. It builds on the existing capabilities, and represents the future versions of, the IBM Lotus product portfolio — including Notes. One of its key themes is social analytics and business analytics combined and applied to industry-specific scenarios — making collaboration more [...]

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The Next Generation Collaborative Enterprise – The Platform
“What will the next generation business enterprise look like?
Well, there is no crystal ball to give us an exact answer for sure. However, we can certainly call out some of the key characteristics of the next generation enterprise. These include: a geographically distributed workforce; the innate ability to [...]

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