Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad

Thoughts on management, HR, social networks…and enterprise 2.0

" 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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Enterprise 2.0 as a part of the Global Enterprise

May 12th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Many questioning about enterprise 2.0 these last weeks. How to make it work, how help companies to understand it, how to calculate the ROI ? So many questions that, at the end, can be summed up in only one : undestranding how these new logics can integrate into the existing and add to it. Without [...]

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Toyota : a good example of SOO that reduces business risk

August 31st, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communication, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

First a quick summary of the Service Oriented Organization concept (SOO) : it’s about giving employees the ability (ie tools and organization model) that allows them to bridge the gap between task they have been assignedJ and thoses that are actually required by their day to day job, assuming that organization reached such an optimum [...]

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What management has to learn from the Airbus vs. Boeing competition

August 8th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information, knowledge-economy

Remember, it was a long long time ago, that, in the times we are living, means something like ten years. At this time Airbus was wondering how to compete with Boeing on the big carriersmarket and was working on what would become the A380. On its side, Boeing was not thinking about replacing its mythic [...]

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What if the future of organizations was SOO (or SPO) ?

June 20th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, knowledge-economy

The idea of this post came to me after a meeting with someone working for the French Armament Comission, a few month ago. When he asked me “do you know what our job is ?” I answered, hesitant, “Choose the weapons the army will use”. “It’s a bit of that, but it’s more complex”. “Really [...]

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Can enterprise 2.0 spread without adhocracy ?

June 9th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

The fact that more and more people agree on the fact that enterprise 2.0 is mainly about the way we do things takes us back to corporate culture issues.
It’s not something that’s easy to deal with. Since it’s been proved that culture is a key performance factor and that it’s important to recruit people who [...]

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