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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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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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Networking and collaboration : is enterprise a land of trust or distrust ?

February 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

I recently wrote that it what obvious to me that for many people some activities and behaviors had to remain in their private sphere and, that social networking and everything that comes with is not a part of what they naturally want to transpose in the workplace. I also temperated my words saying that, of [...]

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Social Medias : being there, doing as usual, doing new things

February 9th, 2010 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0

Everyday we receive new numbers that show that an always increasing number of  people are “on” an increasing number of social networks, that such percentage of an age class is there, that such country is more represented than another or is slowly bridging the gap with the others etc…
Hence the unavoidable conclusion : almost everybody [...]

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Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and personal constraints

February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Like it or not, the smallest unit of work is the individual task. People’s workday is made of achieving tasks, and even in the context of group or collaborative work. A group only delivers the sum of the tasks achieved by its members. That’s why coordination matters. We can even say that, how ironic, knowledge [...]

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Are in-the-flow activities a cure against cultural barriers ?

January 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

The importance of culture on the success of enterprise 2.0 projects is now acknoledged by everybody. The issue was widely discussed at the last Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Franfort where I took part in a panel about it. Even apart from this specific session, culture was the hot topic in many discussions during the breaks [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 by A. McAfee : my review

December 31st, 2009 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0

The long awaited “Enterprise 2.0” by Andrew McAfee was issued a few weeks ago. There were lots of expectations towards  the book of the father of enterprise 2.0 which issuing was delayed earlier this year. Now that the book is available, it’s time to answer the traditional questions : does it meet people’s expectations, what [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 adoption : you need both a voice and a screwdriver

December 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

This is a sequel of my previous post related to enterprise 2.0 adoption, enriched by the many discussions and comments that followed. Here’s a synthesis of what emerged from that.
• There must be someone on the driver seat
As Oscar Berg pointed out, there must be someone in the driver’s seat. Seen from this angle, of [...]

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How to understand and position enteprise 2.0 in the real enterprise

December 1st, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Communities, HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

It’s time to sum up all the thoughts I had these last months. I tried to start from both the concerns expressed by C level managers asking for a global vision and ground managers who needed a “hands on” vision because they don’t have time to waste to try to understand such nebulous things. Having [...]

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Are you “on demand” or “when we can” ? Enterprise 2.0 and the customer perspective

November 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Recommended Bookmarks

What does social software bring ? Nothing by itself (contrary to many others, a social app doesn’t process or treat anything but allow people to do things…) but since it makes some things more easy to do it should, in principle, help to improve performance and productivity for many kind of tasks provided people understand [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 case studies says “it’s possible”…and nothing more

November 6th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

As usual, when a hange that’s both organizational and technological happens, everyone is looking for case studies to be convinced. But as the first solid cases come about social media, it looks like doubt remains, that cases are not close enough to people’s concerns to convince them. How many times can we hear “they don’t [...]

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