Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad

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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 'bottlenecks'

Email, hamsters and bottlenecks

August 14th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, social computing

A few weeks ago, I was a part of a panel intiatied by Yann Gourvennec,  with Vincent Berthelot and Emilie Ogez. At the beginning there was a book , The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You that caught Yann’s attention. So he gathered a few “experts” in order to [...]

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When does the value of a “social object” have to be measured ?

June 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Let’s be clear, I’m talking about value, not about ROI (although the one is a part of the other) and about “social objects” in the large sense of the word : everything that can exist on a social platform, when using social software. It may be a content, an information specially generated, an information shared [...]

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I’m a bottleneck…but I try to improve

May 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Organization & Management

I wrote “I”…as I could I written “us”, “you”… a little story that’s, of course, imaginary. Any similarity whith any existing situation or people is accidental.
Finally, I did it well. Slowly, step by step, I climbed up the company’s hierarchy and took more and more responsabilities.
Today, I’m managing a large team. I’m responsible for my [...]

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