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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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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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Does driving adoption mean being off the point ?

November 26th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

I’ne never been that comfortable with the concept of adoption when applied to enterprise tools. More precisely when the point point was “driving adoption”.
Of course adoption is necessary. And, like every necessary thing, businesses can not afford not to drive it. Nothing but pure logic…but it can’t prevent me from feeling its sounds odd. I [...]

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With Social CRM, enterprise 2.0 goes out of the black box and marketing gains importance

October 5th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Many things have been told and invented in the 2.0 field since the word was coined in the internet world and become trendy in the business world. With more or less success. Sometimes it was great step in conceiving new models for operations, sometimes if was only a smoke cloud aiming at making people forget [...]

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How long does enterprise 2.0 adoption take ?

March 16th, 2009 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0, social computing

Interesting conversation last week last week on twitter with Hutch Carpenter and Gil Yehuda about how long Enterprise 2.0 adoption takes. This question is a real concern for many enterprises and, even if there’s no mathematical formula to help them to find an answer, maybe we can gather a few elements that may explain the [...]

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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 [...]

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Can indicators take us in the wrong direction ?

January 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management

Whatever some may think and even if the small enterprise 2.0 world have been overcatious with this notion, measurements are essentials because they help to validate, undersand and manage what’s done.
Except for experimentations (though come to think of it …) and matters of urgency, nothing is done holding one’s  wet finger in the wind.
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Enteprise 2.0 : stop self-medication

December 7th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

As the “enterprise 2.0″ phenomenon is more and more mature, reflections about “what it it” are being slowly replaced by thought about organization, the financial side, feedbacks and “how can we do it” ?
Even if there are few directrix, there are as many way to succeed than there are many companies, the organizational and management [...]

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Collaborative enterprise project : Feedback Needed

November 26th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, strategy

One of my contacts is progressing on the HR component of a corporate project. He lauched some projects, initiatives and would like to exchange about it with people with similar experciences in order to share best practices, idees and make headway together.
Here’s his request.
Hi,
I am managing a programme called Alstom collaborative Way. I’d like to [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 is about strategy

May 17th, 2008 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Social media within the enterprise suffers from being tools with mass appeal on the web. As a matter of fact, on the web everything relies on people’s will who let their needs drive their actions. One of the main drivers is pleasure and self satisfaction to join a group in order to do what we’re [...]

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