In the comments following this great piece by Hutch Carpenter about 2010 trends, someone relevantly drawn our attention on the importance of integration. I agree and would like to sum up some ideas about all the integration challenges which are much wider than we can usually think.
Notice : when talking about integration we usually think [...]
Entries Tagged as 'alignment'
The factory, the beach and the Bermuda Triangle. Or the challenges of integration
January 21st, 2010 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, social computing
Tags: activity-specific social software·alignment·behaviors·collaboration·Communication·enterprise-social-software·governance·hosting·IT·saas·sense·social sofwtare·social-software
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 [...]
Tags: adoption·alignment·change·change-management·culture·enterprise 2.0·evang·organization·sense
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: alignment·enterprise 2.0·Innovation·marketing·social crm·value chain 2.0
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 [...]
Tags: adoption·alignment·cuture·enterprise 2.0·social-software
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 [...]
Tags: alignment·business model·cisco·collaboration·Communities·corporate responsabiliy·enterprise 2.0·evaluation·human-capital·John Chambers·leadership·management·social capital·social responsability·strategy
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.
Everyone who [...]
Tags: alignment·change·indicators
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 [...]
Tags: adoption·alignment·enterprise 2.0·management·organization·project·ROI·strategy·web-2.0
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 [...]
Tags: alignment·alstom·coaching·collaboration·competences·enterprise 2.0·Human resources·knowledge·ROI·value
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 [...]
Tags: alignment·enterprise 2.0·organization·social computing·social media·Social Networking·strategy·web-2.0
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