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Does education cause a lack of collaboration ?

December 27th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices

When we’re young we’re taught a lot of “good principles” we keep deep in our mind as we grow old. We consider them as undisputable and they really affect the way we act with other peoples in our adult life. The fact is at the time we’re in search of collective efficiency, those principles quickly [...]

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A new approach of partnership ?

November 18th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management

I appreciated much a note published by Jeremie Berrebi. He was offering anyone to use Zlio’s technology to build a competitor to is own company. And even to make something better !
Surprising ? Stupid ? Suicidal.
Not at all. It’s pure logic and is the perfect embodiment of a new kind of win / win strategy [...]

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Collaboration for dummies (1): Collaborating is natural

October 10th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management

Saying “collaboration is good but not quite natural” is a very common word in companies today. Managers and employees know that’s a valuable attitude, but it’s still very hard to make people collaborate, share and work together. I’ve been told so often that “collaboration is not a natural thing and it’s difficult to bring it [...]

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Moving to enterprise 2.0 is nothing but anticipation

October 7th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, Organization & Management

There are many brakes that prevent you moving to enterpise 2.0. “Wer’e not ready”, “people don’t need it”, “it’s good for others but not for us”. My vision is different as I think you’d better change now rather than being forced to change later. Forced by whom? By strategic and organizational need, an by your [...]

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Management 2.0 (3): (potential) Definition

September 29th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0

Let’s try to build a defintion, starting from that and that. It’s a kind of “definition in progress” so your feedback is very welcome. So how to define the management 2.0 concept?
” Implementation of managerial practices favorising the emission of any kind of information or knowledge by any king of actot to any kind of [...]

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Management 2.0 (2): facts and premises

September 24th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, Ideas & innovation management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management

So that’s the continuation of this post.
We’ll make a quick tour of company’s needs, see whats done to improve things and acknowledge that’s it’s not fully efficient (and very far from that) and see what to to to make it work.
Company’s needs:
Innovation as source of value
Employee’s implication in a corporate global project
Improve transverse communication and [...]

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Very good (2.0) ideas at Air France Mexico

September 18th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management

Air France Mexico has launched an ideas management system monthes ago and we have now the first results. The followed purposes where of two kinds:
• Economic:
- Improve company’s performance
- encourage innovation
• Social:
- Make people being in touch with each other
- Identify expertises
- enhance the statutus of employees
All the procedure is described in this post (sorry [...]

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Have you heard about management 2.0?

July 11th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management

No? Don’t panic…that’s the subject of this post.
Perharps you’ve heard about web 2.0? Not either? It’s supposed to be the new trend of the internet, called “social web”. It’s not about technology anymore (despite some are still trying to explain it by telling how it works instead of what it brings), it’s about uses. Using [...]

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