Is enterprise 2.0 a Pandora’s box ?

SocialBusiness

Summary : at the beginning, enterprise 2.0 used to be seen as the solution to all the problems organizations have accumulated without challenging them frontally. One thing leading to another, the solution turned out to be more complex to implement than expected. In the end it appears that, to make enterprise 2.0 work, we need [...]

Enterprise 2.0 and social business : what to expect in 2012 ?

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Résumé : what will be the enterprise 2.0 / social business in 2012 ? It will highly depends on choices organizations will make to deal with the paradox of finding ways to go out of the crisis while not having much money to invest. 2012 will certainly be the year where window window-dressing projects and [...]

Enterprise 2.0 does not tolerate halve measures

SocialBusiness

Summary : many organizations have undertaken a transformation process. Each one is moving forward at its own rate, according to its ambitions and fears, to what seems possible and what they don’t want to tackle. But for what results ? As we may fear, a recent McKinsey study shows that such programs don’t tolerate half [...]

Getting rid of unproductive shadow organizations

SocialBusiness

Summary : enterprises will have to improve their organizational and management. Projects, pilots, initiatives are multiplying to experiment, learn, understand. But what is the right duration for sandbox ? The common answer is that it should take the time it needs but there’s a risk that’s growing with time. Many projects do nothing but creating [...]

Community management is like cholesterol

SocialBusiness

Summary :we’re still fare from being done with discussions on enterprise community management. More complex to implement that it seemed, this kind of system did not always keep its promises and results range from the best to the worse to such an extent that some start to wonder if it’s really worth. Among poorly managed [...]

Should organizations limit collaboration ?

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Summary :with the coming of social media in the workplace, organizations began to dream of a spontaneous self-driven collaboration that would get rid of rules and organization frameworks to deliver outstanding results. Today we all have to acknowledge that reality is quite different. Facing an impressive amount of possible options, employees are lost, all the [...]

Change or don’t change..but don’t stay on the middle of the ford

SocialBusiness

Summary : as any strategic project, a social business or enterprise 2.0 one need deep changes in the organization to be successful. One the most common causes of failure is that not all the consequences are drawn, that what has to be changed in order to make things coherent and beneficial for both employees and [...]

Road to enterprise 2.0 : changing behaviors (only) is neither enough nor perennial

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Summary : the switch from a traditional organizational model to enterprise 2.0 or social business needs a change in behaviors. This evolution often needs specific actions toward individuals to convince them to change the way they work. But is it sufficient and perennial ? It seems that the answer is “no”. Behaviors are determined by [...]

Enterprise 2.0 and ROI : forget the “whether” and focus on the “how”.

Summary : even if the concep of ROI, in its traditional sense, hardly hardly works for enterprise 2.0, overlooking the question of tangible benefits tha should be expected is impossible. But the reasonnings on this issue suffer from a noticeable bias : technology is assessed in the current context while it needs organizational and management [...]

Behind enterprise 2.0 there’s coherence

I’d like to go further into a point I mentioned in a previous post and that deserves some more explainations. According to what we can often hear or read (and that I sometimes wrote here too), organizations lack many things to perform in today’s context. What has to be understood like “they need to acquire [...]