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" The most successful companies are those that think jointly technological change, work design and the changes in internal social relationships.” Antoine Riboud.
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Entries Tagged as 'collaboration'

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 [...]

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What’s new at Lotus ? Coherence, openness and value

February 19th, 2010 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

I rencently had the chance to attend Lotusphere in order to gauge the feeling of what what happening at IBM/Lotus. I took some time to write this post because I was not sure of the point of view I had to take.
It was obvious that “I saw tools doing this and this” was not relevant. [...]

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Social Networking for Business : a collaboration engineering guide in the 2.0 era

February 18th, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

If you read this blog it may be because the new approaches to collaboration and among them social networks interest you. You surely get their potential. You surely understand that deploying a tool, put passion and energy in your projet and pray is not the best way to make things work and achieve tangible results [...]

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From formal to informal collaborations : what are employees’ constraints

February 18th, 2010 · View Comments · Recommended Bookmarks

The collaboration 2.0 thing has now been discussed for a few years. Beyond trendy words, that’s nothing more than making people develop collaborative pratices in a more informal fashion, less contrainsted by organizational rigidities, in ordre to access more easily to the right nformations and people to solve the problems that appear in their workaday [...]

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The conversational enterprise : opportunity or dead end ?

February 16th, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

If we listen to what’s being said here and there, the future of business is conversation. A concept that’s not so easy to get for many organizations for two reasons :
• Intuitively, conversation makes think of chat…what means waste of time
• In the management ideology, there are those who talk and those who do. So, [...]

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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 [...]

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Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and personal constraints

February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Like it or not, the smallest unit of work is the individual task. People’s workday is made of achieving tasks, and even in the context of group or collaborative work. A group only delivers the sum of the tasks achieved by its members. That’s why coordination matters. We can even say that, how ironic, knowledge [...]

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From Google Wave to Social Networks : the social napoleon

November 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

For a long time, and because many thought they could import the social web’s behaviors in the enterprise as is, the projects aiming at bringing the social dimension within employee’s work tried to structure the enterprise the way the web was. That means people will looking for “communities” that were supposed to fill “social spaces”, [...]

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