Is the myth of the “critical size” close to its end ? The concept of enterprise always comes with the concept of “growth”. Growth of the turnover, but also growth of its size. Today’s big companies count tens or hundreds thousand employees. But, at a time when performance is not only about the net force [...]
Entries Tagged as 'coase'
Too big to last ?
August 5th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, economy
Tags: coase·economy·ecosystem·medef·partnership·purchasing depts·SMB·value chain
Can enterprises organize themselves as markets
January 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing
What’s a market ? It’s a place when offer meets demand.
Companies love markets because it’s the more efficient way to find outlets for their products and identify suppliers. It’s a competitiveness factor because of the outlets it provides and the optimization of costs that competition makes possible.
The “social” web is a market somehow. Contents can [...]
Tags: coase·coordination·costs·enterprise-social-software·internet·management·market·marketplaces·organization·production·social-software·social-web·soo·transaction costs·web·web-2.0
Do enterprises really outsource the right things ?
August 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, knowledge-economy
Some of my reflections point to the slow but unavoidable outsourcing of the human side of the enterprise.
First because of organization models and systems that allow companies to focus on their core business : identifying key issues and needs, they can concentrate on elaboring a stragegy to respond…and let others do the rest. The rest, [...]
Tags: coase·costs·india·Innovation·knowledge-economy·knowledge-workers·KPO·outsourcing·saas·transaction costs
Once knowledge will be outsourced, enterprises will only be expertise coordinators
July 14th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, IT, Ideas & innovation management, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information, knowledge-economy, strategy
In a previous post I was saying that, one day, enterprise’s main role will be to organize a value chain and coordinate expertises, some of them being internal and some others internal. Economy’s “knowledgization” where assets resides more in individual knowledge, transaction costs near to zero which may cause a reversed application of Coase’s law, [...]
Tags: C&D·coase·competitiveness·connect and develop·india·Innovation·intellectual partnership·intellectual profil·intellectual property·IP·knowledge-economy·KPO·networks·outsourcing·R&D
Can we organize without organization ?
April 27th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management
In a previous post I was wondering if we were heading to what I called a project or a partnership economy. In the same way, after meeting Don Tapscott and read “Wikinomics”, the idea came to me that we could soon experience a reverse application of Coase’s theorem. Nothing but logical : if high transaction [...]
Tags: coase·externalization·hierarchy·intrapreneurship·organization·partnership·shirky·transaction costs
Enterprise 2.0 : the last step before the project economy ?
April 15th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
A few months ago I wondered if we were on the road to an externalisazion of enterprise’s non structuring function, which may paradoxally put value creation outside the enterprise. In this situation the enterprise’s only job would be to manage outsiders according to its needs. I don’t say it’s a good or a bad thing, [...]
Tags: coase·digital-natives·engaement·externalization·innocentive·intrapreneurship·knowledge-economy·marketplaces·partnership·transaction costs·transactions
Wikinomy will deeply affect enterprise’s size and structure
January 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
I fully agree with Don Tapscott’s wikinomy concept. We’re not talking about the massive use of wikis but about the mass collaboration phenomenon.
The fact is there is more knowledge and innovation outside your company than inside. Some understand it, and among them few are taking benefit from it and many fear it. To make it [...]
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