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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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Why prediction markets have no success in France (and maybe elsewhere…)

March 19th, 2010 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0, social computing

When I talk about enterprise 2.0 with people, they often say things about blogs, wikis, social networks etc… When I say “prediction markets” they look at we with flabbergasted eyes. I find very surprising that while it’s always mentioned as being a part of the enterprise 2.0 field on many other countries, it’s never mentioned [...]

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The community management bible is now online

March 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, social computing

You may have noticed that I’m often skeptical when talking about community management. Not because I don’t believe in it but because its importance and role are so impressive that it must not be led astray or neglected.
When talking about community management, internal and external, there are risks and constraints to take into consideration not [...]

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From community management to customer management

March 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, social computing

I’d like to go back on this  interesting article published in the January-February issue of the Harvard Business Review about the need to reinvent marketing.
The postulate is now well known. Companies have more tools to interact with customers than they ever had and customers want more than ever to tell businesses what they think about [...]

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blueKiwi : the good use of conversations

February 19th, 2010 · View Comments · Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

The last “Virtual Enterpise 2.0 conference” was  a good opportunity to visit some vendor’s booth to know what to expect from them in 2010. I finally had a look at  blueKiwi to see what was new at our European leader.
[Disclaimer..: I joined blueKiwi at the versy beginning of the company and left in last décember. [...]

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What’s new at Lotus ? Coherence, openness and value

February 19th, 2010 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

I rencently had the chance to attend Lotusphere in order to gauge the feeling of what what happening at IBM/Lotus. I took some time to write this post because I was not sure of the point of view I had to take.
It was obvious that “I saw tools doing this and this” was not relevant. [...]

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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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Is workload measurement the problem of the century ?

January 14th, 2010 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, IT, Organization & Management, social computing

Optimizing workload has always been a key concern for businesses and managers. A too heavy workload regarding to the capacity leads to explosion, a too low workload means resources are wasted. I don’t even mention last minute assignments to face imponderables. In brief, bad adjustments have an heavy price.
In a manufacturing economy things are more [...]

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