I discovered the term “techno-populist” while reading this businessweek article. This expression, originally due to Forrester, designates people who flout their company’s IT policies in order to use in their professional lives the tools they use in their private life.
Wendy wakes joined Unilever when she was 27. Within the marketing department she quickly experienced the [...]
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Techno populists come to power at Unilever, GE…and in your company ?
October 15th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, social computing
Tags: CIO·cloud computing·digital-natives·GE·General Electric·google·social computing·techno populism·techno populists·unilever·web·web-2.0·webtop·zoho
Enterprise 2.0 : success comes from organizational approach
August 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, strategy
This is what to conclude from this McKinsey Survey (by the way, it confirms what I’ve been thinking for years) that tries to bring us a view of the state of the art in enterprise 2.0 adoption. At first sight I really didn’t like the title “building the web 2.0″ enterprise because it would suggest [...]
Tags: change·change-management·CIO·enteprise-2.0·IT·management·mckinsey·organization·performance·strategy·web-2.0
Enterprise 2.0 : the time when Mr McKinsey, The Geek and Mrs Smith seat together
July 20th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, enterprise 2.0, social computing, strategy
One of the biggest issues encountered in the the first “enteprise 2.0″ projets and, globally in everything that aimed at changing in any way the people work according to current issues, was the fact the interested parties where all going in their own direction without taking the others into account. Some thinking the others would [...]
Tags: adoption·change·CIO·enterprise 2.0·gartner·hr·Human resources·hype·mckinsey·organization
Interesting Report on IT depts role in value creation
July 16th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
The CIGREF (french big companies CIO club) issued and interesting report co-writen with McKinsey. Although it’s writen in French, [ now availabe in english] I would like to share some points with you. And, if ever you know someone who can make a quick translation for you I think it’s really worht.
- IT doesn’t impact [...]
Tags: balanced scorecard·cigred·CIO·enterprise-social-software·information-system·IT·mckinsey·social media·social-software·strategy maps·value·value creation
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