In brief : Social Business have known two eras until now : a first one where an autonomous adoption from users was expected, the second with business driven adoption strategies which was more meaningful in a work context. Now a third one is slowly emerging, consequence of the glass ceiling in which businesses crash into [...]
Summary : making employee adopt new usages and tools is often seen as pivotal for the success of any social business or 2.0 initiative. But what’s about managers ? Considering them as average users is overlooking their importance on the field and make sure that tools will be used for anything except actual daily work. [...]
Summary : many people from normal businesses wonder how is it possible that promising approaches like social business or enterprise 2.0 don’t become imperative by themselves, that there is so few willingness to establish them firmly, structurally. As if all the work being done to attract and engage employees through mechanisms that that more a [...]
Summary : deploying social business asks to work on many fronts at the same time but it’s clear that, beyond the usual “engagement-adoption” approach organizations lack something more structured allowing to visualize the main lignes of their plan and understand how they impact the reach of expected benefits. That would also be a good means [...]
Summary : tomorrow’s enterprise, 2.0, social or whatever needs more engagement from employees. But there’s a problem : everything show they’re less and less engagement. Worrying but logical, depending on what one really means by engagement. As a matter of fact, considering the lack of will to undertake the needed change, the word engagement is [...]
Summary : there’s no biggest enemy for any enterprise social network than the email it’s supposed to replace and that will remain central on user’s screen for years through its client. What is a big barrier to change. But some may also choose to take the bull by the corns : deep integration of email [...]
Summary : When the world and the economy are transforming, the existing frames of references on which be base our thinking and decision making become obsolete. To adapat to their current and future context, organizations not only should have the vision of what they want to become but also implement it in their employees’ day [...]
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 [...]
Summary : At the dawn of a year that’s expected to be rather difficult, businesses face conflictual choices. On the one hand there are the traditional formula to get prepared for the impact, on the other hand there’s the feeling that anticipating the shock won’t be enough and preparing to get beyond may be a [...]
Summary :most of the projects aiming at changing the way people work or implementing new tools start with seeking quick wins, evidences that the promise can be delivered on a small scale with a limited financial risk. Even if it’s a logical and wise approach, one should prevent from paying too much attention to quick [...]
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