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IT interests : good news but too much compartmentalization

October 30th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, social computing

I recently came across this this chart about what IT departments are currently thinking about. What inspires me some thoughts.
First point, as mentioned in the post where I found this document, there’s  nothing really new. Many of these issues have been discussed for years, some are more recent but even when names change, the topics [...]

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Is Saas the future of your corporate IT ?

September 25th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, social computing

This is one more question that haunts many people’s night. More serioulsy, if it doesn’t make people stay awakened all nights long, it creates debates and brings some confusion that doesn’t help businesses to move forward. As a matter of fact deploying any solution is not that easy when one still have many infrastructure related [...]

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The future of cloud computing is not necessarily outside the firewall

February 13th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools

Discussing wheter companies have to keep their information systemes within their walls or host it, wholly or partly, outside is a central issue.
The Saas or “cloud computing” logic majes sens. The time has come to take away the sacred aura of what,  as Nicholas Carrs  wrote in The Big Switch, is becoming as banal as [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 and SMB. Lets talk about it !

February 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0, social computing

If we refer to the way the isue is often treated, enterprise 2.0 is mainly a large enterprise concern. Does it mean it would be useless for SMBs ? There are very few discussions about that and I took some time to thinks about that.
Here are my first and inevitably incomplete thought. Feel free to [...]

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Seen, read, heard this week #2

December 8th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, social computing

A new column that will be weekly…or not. Will last..or not. Sometimes I read, hear, see things that are not worth a post but that I feel like sharing like I would do at the cofee machine, around a drink or a lunch…
Seen
• This mindmap of enterprise organization by Richard Menneveux. Ok…it’s in french but [...]

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Tools on the cloud for “on the ground” benefits

November 13th, 2008 · View Comments · Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing

Even if cloud computing is not the same thing as social software and enterprise 2.0 et is more about the way tools are delivered  than functionnal classication, it makes interesting shortcuts  in order to remind people of some obvious things that are too often forgotten.
I always repeat that social tools related benefits are not to [...]

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When tools are on the cloud, companies have to make money rain

November 7th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, social computing

Cloud computing is the new buzzword, at least untill the next one comes.It’s a reality we can’t ignore, even if it’s more about a question of place than about technology : it’s the place where things happen.
Let me explain. Consider someone who is able to work alone and must work this way. It’s the efficient [...]

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Who’s looking for a magik stick on the clouds only gets showers

October 16th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Sometimes some of my readers, rather than letting a comment or leaving with their doubts, send me questions by email. And among the questions, one comes so often that it desserves a public answer.
Generaly the mail looks that that
“Dear Bertrand
I’m very interesting in all that’s being said about enteprise and web 2.0. As a matter [...]

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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

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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