I’ve always had an ambiguous feeling about productivity. In the one hand, doing more or faster with the same amount of resources is a significant improvement. In the other hand, with hindsight, we have to admit that productivity continuously increased these last decades, that whenever a hard time everything is done to increase it even [...]
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Your knowledge helps you more than your productivity
September 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, economy, knowledge-economy, social computing, strategy
Tags: collaboration·economy·ecosystem·Innovation·knowledge·knowledge-economy·learning·problem solving·productivity·ROA·social media·social-software
Beyond social CRM : social stakeholders management
August 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, strategy
Last week I wrote what social CRM meant to me. It’s the inevitable step toward the implementation of a customer relationship management of a new nature. Clients are not only marketing objectfs or elements of a sales pipe anymore but people with whom businesses built things on a long term perspective, beyond the sacred purchase [...]
Tags: crm·social business·social crm·social stakeholders management·stakeholders·strategy
The twilight of enterprise 2.0 and the emergence of process socialization
July 7th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing, strategy
The last Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston sounded the knell of many illusions. It won’t be a surprise for anyone, we’ve been talking about that for months and feeling it was coming. First, the beginning of a move of enterprise 2.0 toward the real enterprise, then a try to integrate the social phenomenon in the [...]
Tags: adoption·business process·enterprise 2.0·process·socialization·value chain
Even in downturns, human capital has to be protected
February 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, strategy
Because they didn’t have the time (or the will) to make the structural decisions that would help to face a downturn, companies often react by acting on the easiest adjustment variables :
• Cuts in bugets
• investments putt offs
• employees lay offs.
It makes it possible to attend to the most urgent things first even if I [...]
Tags: crisis·downturn·expertises·growth·human-capital·kpmg·lay offs·network·talent
Boards in the mist
February 11th, 2009 · View Comments · economy, strategy
Boards have to be mobilized in order to make the right decisions to survive the crisis. Nothing new. But according to this essay from McKinsey, it’s far from being that simple.
Three reasons are put forward
• Boards follow unchanging procedures and ritualss. Defines shedules on a yearly basis, documents and agendas fixed many weekds ago.
It may [...]
Tags: boards·crisis·downturn·economy·half strategy·interactions·strategy
Enterprises far beyond enterprise 2.0
January 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, strategy
A few weeks ago I amused myself proposing a few tracks on what enterprise 2.0 may be in 2009. But I think pushing the reflection beyond would be worth : enterprise 2.0 is only a side of a much complex reality that is enterprise and will be of any use only in a global framework. [...]
Tags: antoine-riboud·business networks·collaboration·costs·enterprise·enterprise 2.0·evaluation·Human resources·indicators·IT·management·mintzberg·networks·organization·performance·social networks·spendings·strategy·value·value creation
Enterprise 2.0 : the CISCO case
January 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing, strategy
You must have noticed how many posts have been published about Cisco these late days. The US giant seems to be the first example of global enterprise 2.0 or, at least, to be the first to meet such a recognition for its success. Many things have been writen about that and it will be easy [...]
Tags: alignment·business model·cisco·collaboration·Communities·corporate responsabiliy·enterprise 2.0·evaluation·human-capital·John Chambers·leadership·management·social capital·social responsability·strategy
A crisis that’s not that economic
December 17th, 2008 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, strategy
Many people agree to admit the time has come to built a kind of new economic order, the drifts of the current system having lead to the situation we all know. But, saying that, people often neglect what I consider being a management failure. As for the hen and the egg it’s hard to say [...]
Tags: Communities·crisis·governance·half strategy·management-2.0·mintzberg·performance·strategy
CE0 concerns : network driven business models
December 16th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communities, Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, strategy
What are CxOs real concerns ? How do they undertsand current issues ? Lots of people are talking about the need for companies to change in order to evolve in the context that is theirs now but it supposes the “information” has reached the highest decision makers and that they really understand what it’s about [...]
Tags: business networks·busness model·collaboration·growth·Human resources·management·networks·organization·pricewaterhousecoopers·productivity·pwc·social networks·social responsability·strategy·sustainable development·talent·talent management
Do You Know Social Business ?
December 16th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, entrepreneurship, strategy
There was a lot of people at the “Theatre Marigny”, in Paris a few weeks ago. So many people that not everybody who wanted to attend managed to get a seat. It wasn’t the latest trendy show…or maybe yes. The first opus of a show that can be called “how to make business without breaking [...]
Tags: danone·management·muhammad Yunus·social business·social responsability·sustainable development
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