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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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What kind of social networks do companies need ?

February 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Need for synergies, for connections, to do more with less ? Whatever the official reason is (and sometimes the unofficial one), companies are now turning back to the gool old network, renamed “social network” to stick to the the current climate, to find new pools of performance.
Because companies focus on efficiency, people’s network is not [...]

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Will 2.0 learn the enterprise ?

December 15th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

As I wrote in a previous post, all the required conditions are gathered for serious things to begin. Most of times, when a new phenomenon emerges, it goes through the following steps : ecstasy and disorganised intiatives even if brings no benefits, rejection because nothing good has been done at the previous step and then [...]

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People are more likely to share information if they know why

March 29th, 2008 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

Companies know their performance depends more and more on their ability to use information. But information that’s not harnessed can’t be used.
There are two kinds of information : company generated information that’s harnessed (even if people within the organization don’t know where to find it), and employee generated information that remains informal and is only [...]

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Eight technology trends for business improvement

December 30th, 2007 · View Comments · IT, Ideas & innovation management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

As usual it comes from McKinsey and can be downloaded here.
It’s about distributed innovation, transforming information into business, taking benefits from human interaction, turning customers into partners… enterprise 2.0 without the name.

Tags: business , Innovation , strategy , techology , web-2.0

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2.0 has to be aware of business orientation

November 25th, 2007 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

In the “let’s make 2.0 a performance oriented tool instead of a nice concept”, some more ideas.
What are enteprise 2.0 specialists biggest challenges ? Overriding fear and have the tools adopted in order to demonstrate their added value.
Because by dint of hearig about agility, informal, off project spontaneous connexions between individuals, decision makers realize than, [...]

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