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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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Entries Tagged as 'agile methods'

Management 2.0, SOO and productivity

March 26th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management

I started, here and there, writing about the need for changing flows direction within organization : switching from a “pushed” to a “pull” way of producting and communicating. The purpose is to make it possible for people to determine their action according to a goal rather than to an order.
Why is that so important ?
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To understand enterprise 2.0 companies should learn from theory of constraints

August 21st, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

It’s funny to see how history seems to be endlessly repeating, how issues that have been fixed years ago are coming back to the surface.
Because the question of productivity, time management, ROI in an enterprise 2.0 or in a Service Oriented Organization remembers me of something that already took place years ago (and was fixed) [...]

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One day, every project will be agile

June 27th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, project management

The time is not far when the question of reinventing project management will be a key issue. The purpose will be to reconsider a project as something that have to fulfill a need and not an objective by itself as it’s so often. How can we see a project is its own purpose ? [...]

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Is creativity the only answer to complexity ?

May 21st, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy

Basically that would make sense. In an industrial economy everything is product-centric : we know what it is, what it’s made of, of which pieces it’s composed, there’s one and only one to produce and assemble them, and everyone knows exactly what he has to do. It’s a system based on infinite repetition of totally [...]

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