It’s Official! The End Of Competitive Advantage “Now with the publication this week of The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business, the death is official. The book is written by Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School in New York and one of the [...]

Etude : Big Data, comment les entreprises adaptent-elles leur stratégie ? “The Economist Intelligence Unit, l’entité de recherche du magazine The Exonomist a publié récemment un rapport d’étude à propos des Big Data (commandité par Wipro) et la manière dont les entreprises appréhendent ce virage. Avantages certains, obstacles et difficultés identifiées, types d’applications… plusieurs dirigeants [...]

Pattern recognition, quantified self and big data “Companies are not managing their employees’ long term careers any more. Workers must be their own HRD-professionals. With opportunity comes new responsibility. It is up to the worker to construct the narrative of work-life, to know what to contribute, when to change course and how to keep engaged [...]

The new work “Learning to better deal with intangibles is the next challenge for today’s organizations and workers. I developed the following graphic to describe the four job types in relation to 1) work competencies and 2) economic value. It appears that an economy that creates more intangible value will require a greater percentage of [...]

The Value of Big Data Isn’t the Data “It is clear that a new age is upon us. Evidence-based decision-making (aka Big Data) is not just the latest fad, it’s the future of how we are going to guide and grow business. But let’s be very clear: There is a huge distinction to be made [...]

What Happened to the Internet Productivity Miracle? “Back in the late nineteen-nineties, there was a lot of optimism about the future, and it wasn’t all emanating from those lucky souls who had gotten in early on the I.P.O.s of companies like Yahoo and Amazon. Many economists, with Alan Greenspan prominent amongst them, believed that over [...]

The Company Social Network “Ever since Andrew McAfee started the Enterprise 2.0 theme, businesses have been implementing Social technologies to utilize the wave of innovation that swept in from the Internet with user-created content and person-to-person communication via text, voice or video. According to McKinsey over 80% of businesses use at least one social technology [...]

Ces salariés qui travaillent en mode start-up ” Opérant en commando, ils brisent toutes les règles avec la bénédiction de leur patron. On les appelle les “intrapreneurs”” tags: management intrapreneurship casestudies Poult alcatellucent Gore Douze jours par an, quatre groupes de six volontaires (cadres et ouvriers) apprennent à concevoir un business plan, à calculer un [...]

Bernard Stiegler : « Nous entrons dans l’ère du travail contributif » “le modèle consumériste se meurt, comme celui du progrès permanent. Tout s’automatise. L’intérêt économique ne peut plus être le seul poursuivi. Il faut réhabiliter le savoir, la connaissance, la créativité. Comment ? En développant une « économie de la contribution », qui révolutionne [...]