I’ll start with a statement that’s nothing new and won’t surprise anyone. We are all different, with our cultures, values, expectations, and even if things may look quite uniform at a local scale, the diversity of our world becomes obvious when we have to work in a globalized context.
In the same way, any idea, trend, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'change'
Is enterprise 2.0 possible without positive thinking ?
March 16th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
Tags: adoption·change·change-management·culture·enterprise 2.0·positive thinking·rationalism·reason
New report on the state of enterprise 2.0
March 11th, 2010 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0
Cécile Demailly had the kindness to send me the report she made about the state of enterprise 2.0, a report than can be purchased here. It relies on the responses of people from 50 large organizations, often international, and the fact 48% respondants are french gives a very interesting picture of the double context (local [...]
Tags: adoption·change·culture·enterprise 2.0·sense
Adopting new practices in multiple contexts
March 4th, 2010 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Knowing that people have to face multiple contexts in their work, we have to make sure that new practices and tools are enablers in each situation. I do not write “social” or “2.0″ in purpose because these words are so tied to communities and social networks that we often forget that the underlying concepts may [...]
Tags: activity-specific social software·change·change-management·collaboration·collective efficiency·Communities·enterprise 2.0·organizational performance·performance·social media
What place for communities in collaboration ?
March 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communities, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
The switch from a compartimentalized enterprise collaborating on a small perimeter to an enterprise that harnesses mass collaboration and leverages social networks and communties is much harder than many expected.
But is “transformation” a relevant word ?
First because collaboration has many differents levels and scopes that not exclusive but complementary. Enterprise 2.0 does not mean the [...]
Tags: change·change-management·collaboration·Communities·community management·enterprise 2.0·management
Networking and collaboration : is enterprise a land of trust or distrust ?
February 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0
I recently wrote that it what obvious to me that for many people some activities and behaviors had to remain in their private sphere and, that social networking and everything that comes with is not a part of what they naturally want to transpose in the workplace. I also temperated my words saying that, of [...]
Tags: adoption·change·change-management·collaboration·culture·e-reputation·enterprise 2.0·france·personal branding·Social Networking·trust
Social Medias : being there, doing as usual, doing new things
February 9th, 2010 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0
Everyday we receive new numbers that show that an always increasing number of people are “on” an increasing number of social networks, that such percentage of an age class is there, that such country is more represented than another or is slowly bridging the gap with the others etc…
Hence the unavoidable conclusion : almost everybody [...]
Tags: adoption·change·change-management·enterprise 2.0·practices·usages·web 2.0
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 [...]
Does enterprise (2.0) need a pilot ?
October 16th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
It started with this provocative post from Michael Idinopulos. His message is quite claire : assuming that enterprise 2.0 relies on networked interactions, that these interations need a critical mass of users not only because of Metcalf law but also because, by definition, it’s impsossible to know at the beginning who will be needed in [...]
Tags: adoption·change·conversational·conversations·enterprise 2.0·experimentation·pilot·scale·scope·social networks·transactional·transactions
Which future for middle managers ?
October 1st, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Among the subjects that are classified “sensitive” by many companies, middle management is not one of the least. It’s easy to understand that the latter will be widely impacted by the emergence of networked ,”unintermediarized” organizations, what brings legitimate fears. Companies fear the consequences of mid-managers fears and reaction and want to preserve the internal [...]
Tags: change·culture·enterprise 2.0·Human resources·management·middle-management·social media·social-software
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